Recordings in standard view rooms

Last updated on Jan 22, 2025

Editing a recording is useful if the recording contains sections of silence or unnecessary information that you want to remove before making the recording available.

Follow these steps to edit the recording in standard view rooms:

From the Adobe Connect Central home page, select Meetings or Training, and then select the meeting or classroom that includes the recording.
Select Recordings.
Select Edit Recording in the Actions pop-up menu next to the recording that you want to edit.

Note:

HTML enables editing the recording in browser as well as in application mode.
Simply click the Play button to search for places that require editing or drag the progress marker to a specific location.

Controls to edit meeting recordings.

Use Tab key to navigate through all the buttons in the recording editor.
Use the selection markers to specify the areas of the recording you want to remove, and click Cut.
(Optional) At the left of the meeting window, select the Events Index pane to Navigate to specific events in recordings.
(Optional) To remove changes, select Undo to remove individual edits made when you last saved to restore the recording to its original state.
Remove any additional sections. When you have finished, click Save.

Add bookmarks to the recording

Bookmarks can be added to the recordings to call attention to a certain point for future viewers to identify places that they can easily return to.

Select Add Bookmark from the options on the far left-hand side.

Add bookmark
Select the Add Bookmark icon from this menu. Once you click the bookmark icon, you are prompted to set a timestamp and name of your bookmark. You can also add some notes, if required.

Add timestamp
Select Done. The bookmark now appears in the recording at the specified timestamp.

View, Edit or Delete recordings

In addition to viewing, editing or deleting the bookmarks, you can also add chapters in the recordings. Chapters can be added at any point along the recording timeline bar for the existing bookmarks. Chapters allow you to highlight changes at places within the recording that can be referred for discussions.

In the panel at the left corner, the bookmarks for all recordings are seen with timestamps. Click a bookmark to open a recording right to bookmarked time.
To add a chapter name, select Add Chapter. The chapter is added above the selected bookmark.
To edit the name of the bookmark, hover over the bookmark and select Edit . The Edit Bookmark dialog box opens.
You can permanently remove a bookmark if you no longer need it. In the bookmarked tab, hover over the bookmark and select Delete .

Offline recordings in Standard view

In Adobe Connect Classic View, you could convert and download an Adobe Connect session recording offline, in MP4 or FLV format. The conversion happens using the Adobe Connect application for desktop.

You can convert a meeting into MP4 and download recordings in the Standard view.

Note:

If you create an offline recording (MP4) for standard meetings, restart the connect detector.exe and all connect.exe running in the background. Creating offline recordings will disable the client's GPU, and if you want to use features like Virtual Background or Direct-X screen share, follow the above conditions.

Start recording

To download an Adobe Connect meeting for offline viewing, follow the steps below:

Log in to Adobe Connect Central and locate the recording that you want to convert to MP4 format.
In the Actions drop-down list, select Make Offline-Standard view.

Choose option for offline recording
- In the recording viewer window, click the gear icon in the lower-right corner to access the settings panel ,
- Hide in playback allows you to enable/disable the following options:
  
  Attendee Names: By choosing this option names will appear anonymous, so instead of real names, they will be replaced by ‘User1’, ‘User2’, etc. in all the pods where names appear (Video, Chat, Q&A, Attendee, and Share.
  
  Chat Pod: Display or hide the Chat pod in the recording.
  
  Attendee pod: Display or hide the Attendee pod in the recording.
  
  Q&A pod: Display or hide the Q&A pod in the recording.
- Video Quality: These presets are provided to allow you to easily select combinations of resolution and frame rates for different target outcomes. However, each parameter can be adjusted individually to create a custom profile.
- Resolution: Choose the resolution (720p, 1080p, etc.) for the resulting recording.
- Bandwidth: Choose the recording bandwidth from the drop-down list. The recording will dynamically adjust the video parameters, such as video compression, to attempt to stay below this value.
- Quality: This value affects the compression of the video frames, sometimes making the video slightly smaller or larger.
- Profile: These provide different levels of video compression. Baseline is the lowest compression but the best playback compatibility.
- Frames per sec: Frames Per Second (FPS) is a measure of the number of video frames that are displayed per second.
- On Windows only you can enable the option Record silently, if you want the recording to continue in the muted mode. The result will contain the audio, but the audio will be stripped of during creation of the mp4 file. Enable the option Set as default, if you want to keep these settings for the next time you make a recording offline.
Once you’ve made the changes, select Start Recording. In the dialog that follows, name the recording (MP4), and choose the location for saving the file.

Save the recording

Download the utility from the site and unzip the contents.
Double-click the utility, Offliner.exe.

Create offline recordings
In the Enter Recording URL field, enter the meeting URL and select Add. In the Adobe Connect login screen, enter the user name and password.
After signing in, you can see the meeting is queued and is ready for conversion.
If you want to add another meeting URL and click Add. Now, both the meetings are queued, and ready for conversion.

Convert the recordings
To convert the meetings into mp4 videos, select Start.

To trim the length of the recording, select Stop.

Convert and download recordings in MP4 or FLV format

You can convert and download an Adobe Connect session recording offline, in MP4 or FLV format. This conversion happens on your local system using the Adobe Connect application for desktop.

Note:

Recordings converted to mp4 will be created in Classic view (not the Standard view).
The offline recording does not contain audio, if any, from the shared HTML content. HTML5 content created using Adobe Captivate 9 and Adobe Presenter 11 is supported in Virtual Classrooms and its recordings.

Log in to Adobe Connect Central and locate the recording that you want to convert to MP4 format.
Against the recording, select Actions to open the pop-up menu and select Make Offline. The recording and a pop-up dialog are opened in the Adobe Connect application.
In the Offline Recording dialog, select MP4 or FLV as an output option. Also, select the quality using either the slider or by customizing the settings of the output by selecting Advanced Options.

Dialog bog to set conversion options to create an offline recording.
Optionally, to save the Advanced Options as the default, click the check box Set as default.

Note:

The set as default option is client-specific that means on a specific machine a user can continue to use set defaults. On a different machine, the system default (HD quality) remains.
Click Proceed with Offline Recording. Browse and save the file in a local folder. The recording will play in the Adobe Connect application and get converted to MP4 or FLV file. A dialog box pops up when the conversion has finished and provides the details of the actual recording. The actual quality and resolution of the generated MP4 file depends on your system resources and may be equal to or lower than the chosen settings. Check the pop-up dialog box at the end for the Resolution and the FPS achieved.

Summary of the actual quality of the offline file created from a recording.