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One of Adobe Connect Pro 7 newest features is the ease in which you can edit and distribute recordings.

Editing Meeting Recordings
You can use the built-in editor to remove sections of the recording. This is useful if the recording contains periods of silence or unnecessary information. Only meeting room Hosts and Meeting Room Creators can edit recordings associated with that room.

Following are some tips for editing recordings:

• To edit a meeting recording that has been moved to the Content library, you must have Meeting Room Creator rights for the room. (If you created the meeting you have these rights by default.) A meeting Host can only edit meetings that have not been moved and are still associated with the meeting.
• After editing a recording, the last edited version is saved and includes all information from earlier editing sessions. The link used to deploy your recording does not change after editing. Users given the link and rights to access the recording see the most recent version saved, including any edits that were made.
• Multiple users can open a recording in edit mode at the same time and no warning is displayed that the recording is already being edited by another user. However, after one user saves their changes, others that may be editing the recording at the same time receive an error when they try to save their changes.

Edit a Recorded Meeting - Online

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.

1. Meeting Creator only - From the Acrobat Connect Pro Central home page, click Meetings and then click the name of the meeting that includes the recording. Go to Step 2.
   Meeting Creator or Host - Login to the Meeting Room using the URL. In the meeting room menu go to Meeting>Manage Meeting Information. This will open the Meeting Information Menu in your computer system default browser window with the listing of the recordings. *Note: The browser may be hidden behind other open applications that are running. Go to Step 2.

2. Click the "Recordings" link at the end of the Meeting Information menu bar to view the list of recordings for the meeting room.


Recordings Link

3. Click Edit next to the recording that you want to edit.


Selecting Edit for a Recording

4. Watch the recording to search for places that require editing or drag the progress line in the Playing bar to a specific location in the recording.
5. Use the selection markers to specify the areas of the recording you want to remove.


Selecting an Area and Crop

6. Click Crop. By clicking on Crop, you will prevent unwanted portions of the recording from being seen by skipping over them when viewed. They are still on the server and any cropped section can be restored by selecting the cropped section and clicking on the Undo button.
7. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 to select and crop out multiple sections.
8. (Optional) Click on the View Advanced Options button to search for specific information within the recording file or filter by event type.


Selecting the Advanced Options Button

9. Click on the Save button when your are finished marking sections for removal from your recording. The edited recording will begin playing immediately after being saved.


Saving Your Edits

10. (Optional) Click on the Revert to Original button to restore the recording to its original state before the edits.


Revert to Original Recording

About Offline Recordings

If you have a meeting recording and want people who do not have access to an Acrobat Connect Pro server to view the recording, you can create an offline version. The offline recording is saved as a single FLV file.
Following are some tips for offline recordings:

• Set your screen resolution high enough to include all activities that occurred in the original meeting. Adobe recommends setting resolution to 1024 x 768.
• Leave the recording controls toolbar minimized. If this toolbar is in view, it is also recorded.
• Avoid network or system intensive activities such as installing software or downloading files during the recording process.
• Disable your screen saver and monitor power settings before proceeding.
• Creating an offline recording takes approximately the same amount of time as the duration of the original meeting recording.
• You can minimize the offline recording window or view other windows on top of it while creating your offline recording without interfering with the contents of your recording.
• Ensure that you have the Acrobat Connect Add-in installed before starting an offline recording. (You can check if you have the Add-in installed by entering a meeting and seeing if you are prompted to install the Add-in.)
• The finished FLV file can be viewed in a FLV player (such as Adobe® Media Player), placed on a CD, placed on a server that can play FLV files to users, embedded into a presentation, e-mailed to users to play within their own local FLV player, or uploaded to the Acrobat Connect Pro Content library.
• Use the Pause/Resume button to temporarily stop creation of the offline recording as necessary. This can be useful if you must download a large file and do not want to strain system resources or if you must attend a live meeting. When you click Resume, the recording continues from where it was paused. The finished recording is one continuous file regardless of how many times you paused and resumed recording.
• The Stop and Save button ends the creation of a recording. This is useful if you only want to record a portion of a meeting or virtual classroom, for example, the first ten minutes. Also, use the Stop and Save button to break a long meeting session into smaller recordings. For example, if you have a two-hour meeting session, you can create four half-hour recordings. You would start the recording and after 30 minutes click Stop and Save. Then, if you click Start New again, you resume

Create an Offline Recording
The meeting recording begins playing, which starts the creation of the offline archive.
Each time you make the control bar visible, it will be visible within the final recording. Show the control bar as infrequently as possible and keep the control bar in its minimized state.

To make Offline Recordings do the following:

1. Meeting Creator only - From the Acrobat Connect Pro Central home page, click Meetings and then click the name of the meeting that includes the recording. Go to Step 2.
   Meeting Creator or Host - Login to the Meeting Room using the URL. In the meeting room menu go to Meeting>Manage Meeting Information. This will open the Meeting Information Menu in your browser window with the listing of the recordings. Go to Step 2.
2. Click the "Recordings" link at the end of the Meeting Information menu bar to view the list of recordings for the meeting room.


Recordings Link

3. Next to the specific recording you want to use, click Make Offline.


Select Make Offline

4. In the Offline Recorder, specify a location for the finished FLV file. (If Help text appears, click Proceed with Offline Recording.)


Select location to save Offline Recording

5. If the controls are not visible, click Show toolbar


Open the Toolbar

6. Use the Start New, Stop and Save, and Pause/Resume controls as necessary during the recording process.


Start New, Stop and Save, and Pause/Resume Controls

7. When the recording process finishes, a confirmation message appears. If necessary, close the offline recorder window by clicking close. (If the window is in its minimized state, the window closes automatically.)


Confirmation Window

8. (Optional) To find the finished FLV file, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the location you selected in step 4.

   Note: Playing the offline recording requires using the Adobe Media Player that can be downloaded from the following website: http://get.adobe.com/amp/?promoid=DJDZD

   Always use caution when downloading movies or files from untrusted sites as they may contain viruses or other unwanted content.

   Additional information on how to edit .FLV recordings that have been download can be obtained by visiting the Digital Commons Penn State web pages at http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/

Posting Downloaded Recording in iTunesU
Downloaded recordings can be distributed in a number of ways. One way you might want to consider is through iTunes U. Recordings download as an FLV files, so they will need to be converted to MOV before being uploaded to iTunes U. Converters can be found by Googling "convert FLV to MOV." For example, http://www.flv-converter.com/flv-to-mov.htm.

Information about obtaining an iTunes U course at Penn State is available at http://podcasts.psu.edu/. Faculty will need to complete the form at http://podcasts.psu.edu/showsetup.