Video in Adobe Connect meetings

Video Pod in Adobe Connect allows Hosts and Presenters to share a webcam video feed with the participants to make the virtual sessions more engaging and useful. Adobe Connect supports a myriad video sharing options.

Hosts, presenters, and participants with enhanced rights can simultaneously share video from webcams connected to their computers. You can select the webcam feed to broadcast if you have multiple webcamsworking. If a user changes the selection or a connected webcam is unplugged, the change happens in real time. Also, Adobe Connect remembers this setting for your future meetings.

Video feeds in a meeting are displayed in the Video pod in either Filmstrip layout and Grid layout. Hosts, Presenters, and participants with enhanced video rights can set a video feed as the primary video from among all the video feeds.

In Full Screen mode, the Title bar is not visible and only the video feeds are displayed. Hover the pointer at the upper edge of the full screen video to access the menu options and the Exit Full Screen button.

When a meeting host switches to Filmstrip layout, the Host’s video is the main video. A host can mark any video as the main video. If any feed is hidden from the strip, a scroll icon is available at the end. Any user can scroll the strip on either sides to see other available feeds. Scrolling the feed does not affect the display of other users.

By default, only Hosts and Presenters can broadcast video. However, Hosts can enable participants to broadcast by doing any of the following:

• To enable video for all participants, click the menu button to the right of the webcam button, and choose Enable Webcam for Participants.

• To enable video for specific participants, select one or more in the Attendees pod. Then choose any of the following from the pop-up menu: Enable Video, Make Host, or Make Presenter.

You can access the various settings of Video pod either directly from the Video pod menu or by accessing Video pod preferences.

• In Filmstrip mode, to set a video as the main video, hover pointer over the video and click Set as Main Video.

• You can maximize the Video pod within the meeting room. Click the icon , and click Maximize.

• You can select a particular webcam to use in your meetings from the Video pod. Click the menu icon , and from the Select Camera option, choose one of the attached webcams.

• Hosts can select either the Filmstrip or the Gird layout. Alternatively, click or icon in the Title bar of the Video pod.

• You can make the Video pod Full Screen. In Full Screen mode, the Title bar is not visible. Hover the pointer at the upper edge of the full screen video to access the menu options and the Exit Full Screen button. Alternatively, hit escape key to turn off the full screen mode.

  Note: Full Screen mode is different from the Maximize option. When the former option is used, a Video pod occupies the entire screen, whereas when the latter is used, the Video pod occupies the entire meeting room.

• Hosts and Presenters can enforce their view settings for all the attendees, by clicking Force Presenter View.

  Note: Force Presenter View option in the Video pod is not available in Break Out rooms.

• In the Preferences, select Disable Webcam Preview to disable preview when you start your webcam and start sharing the video.

• In the Preferences, select Highlight Active Speakers to visually highlight the video of the speaker who is speaking at the moment. Multiple videos are highlighted, if multiple participants are speaking simultaneously.

• You can choose the aspect ratio from the two available options—Standard (4:3) and Wide Screen (16:9). These changes are applicable to all the participants sharing their webcam.

You can share and consume HD (720p) live video feed. Hosts can set the video quality to HD in the Meeting Preferences. The broadcasted HD feed is available in both, the Filmstrip mode and the Grid mode. Adobe recommends using the Filmstrip mode for better performance.

When HD video sharing is enabled, only one HD stream is allowed in a meeting currently.

The camera publisher can change the Video Quality in Meeting Preferences to HD.

To understand how the HD feed is allocated in a meeting if multiple subscribers start sharing HD camera feeds and change upon switching layout, see the following table.

The Video Telephony pod lets hosts share video streams with attendees, including any audio. When one-way communication is sufficient for a presentation, a telephony stream can be preferable to a two-way conference.