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 webcam video sharing options.

When you create a meeting, by default, the option Enhanced Audio/Video Experience is enabled.

Enable this option for improved audio and video including increased resolution, clarity, smoothness, and reliability. All attendees can join from a modern browser, from the desktop application, or from the latest mobile apps. A few things to note:

• You cannot join a meeting from Classic mobile apps.
• Meeting recordings will be available as MP4 videos instead of the interactive format.
  

For more information on what's supported and what's not in Enhanced and Standard modes, see the Capability matrix.

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 webcams working. 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, Grid or Single Speaker 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.

Share webcam video

Enable participants to share webcam video

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 video pod on the tool bar, and select 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: Video Share, Change Role - Make Host, or Make Presenter.

Settings to share webcam video

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 from Video pod options menu .
  

• 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. The former option can be done by all the attendees by clicking the full screen tab on the upper right side whereas the latter option is only available to the hosts. The host can maximize it for all the attendees.

• 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.

Share HD video from 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.

If a meeting has a Host and a Presenter, whoever turns on camera first can access the HD video slot to be able to share HD videos in the meeting. In Participant and Host views, a Participant or a Host can view which video cam feed is HD through the HD label that appears after hovering the pointer over the video. Additionally, a Host can hover the pointer on any video and click the HD label to convert the video into an HD video or to pass on the HD video slot to another attendee, including a Participant.

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.

In Connect 12, the microphone/camera experience is selected by default.

Note: This option is not supported in the Standard View.

Change your background before entering the meeting room 

All participants can change the virtual background before video meetings. You can either blur, more blur or replace it entirely with given background images. You can apply a blur effect to the video or replace the video with any image that is provided.

To change the background image, perform the following:

Change your background during the meeting

All the participants can enable or change the virtual background during the meeting. 

Your meeting will be framed by your selected virtual background the entire time.

Rights of Host

There are few rights that only host can hold for the virtual background settings. They can accessible after entering the meeting room. Only host can view and access to these options.

Join using browser

When joining virtual meeting using browser, there are few settings that are required.
 

Mic, speaker and Camera selection experience

Adobe Connect 12 introduces changes to the sign in screen, app home screen, speaker, microphone, and camera selection.

Participant enters a room

Test microphone

Before attending a meeting, it's recommended that you test your microphone, and troubleshoot issues, if any. Click Test on the Microphone section, and then on the Test Microphone window, choose your microphone.

After testing the microphone, you can finally enter the room.

In-room Preferences

Speaker

You can perform the following:

• Mute or unmute the speaker.

• Test your speaker capabilities.

• Choose to listen or ignore an attendee's audio. 

• Adjust speaker volume.

Microphone

You can perform the following:

• Select a microphone.
• Test the microphone, adjust the volume, and apply noise suppression. 
• Mute or unmute the mic.
• Allow participants to use the microphone.
• Allow participants to request microphone to allow all the participants in the meeting to request the host to unmute themselves and participate in the verbal discussion.

• Allow a single speaker so that hosts can avoid overlapping conversations. When one speaker clicks the button, it's disabled for other users until the current speaker clicks the button again.

Camera

You can perform the following:

• Select a camera.
  
• Turn on and off webcam.
• Edit video background.
• Enable and disable webcam for the participants.
• Manage video preferences.

To pause the camera during the meeting, select   ellipsis icon near the camera feed, and select Pause.

Connect to video telephony streams

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.