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 or virtual classroom 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 (users can download the file from the 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 or virtual classroom session into smaller recordings. For example, if you have a two-hour virtual classroom 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 recording from where you left off. (The Start New option is only available after clicking Stop and Save.)