Extracting Connect recorded meetings?

I also ran into this problem, and have resolved to re-recording the recorded meeting using an AVI screen capture utility. It recompresses the video into the DIVX format and runs at a burn rate of approximately 5MB per minute of recorded video.

That said, can't wait until recordings.

I also have the constant need to have the Connect recordins as a single file. I currently do this by using Camtasia to "record the recording". I have found that this gives me the added advantage of being able to totally edit the recording both video and audio and to produce it in several different video formats.

Later,

Al

If you have a current Maintenance and Support agreement then the new version will be given to you as soon as it is released. If you have a licensed account this will probably come in the form of a disk to your contact listed in your Admin section of your enterprise server. If you are hosted, then it will just change when they release the new version.

Jorma@RealEyes

Hi wsipx-mike,

We have the same problem and though there is no easy way to do this, we have established a work-around when we absolutely have to extract the information. It really only works for simple presentations. Our method doesn't capture the chat pods, etc.

Sound Recording:
We use a program called Audacity for our sound recording. It is a fairly robust open source freeware program. One of the recording options in Audacity is "What U Hear". This causes it to capture any sound that occurs on your computer. Open Audacity, set the input to What U Hear, and click Record. Play your Connect recording. Save the resulting audio file.

Now you need to lay the sound into your slides. You could do this with Acrobat Presenter plug-in for PowerPoint by importing the sound, syncing it with your slides and exporting the file.

However, we also use Adobe Captive 3, which I think gives me more control. Import the PowerPoint slides into Captivate, import the sound file, and then edit the sound in Captivate by clicking Start New Slide as the appropriate points. The result is a swf file that delivers similar content to your Connect Meeting.

If you know that you need to do this before the meeting, you can have someone write down when the slide changes occur during the meeting. After importing the slides, set each to the duration noted during the meeting. Finally, import the sound file and let Captivate use the current timing and lay the sound over multiple slides.

Ken

Not yet, we're hoping for a download option in the next release of Connect - Spring 2008. The Connect product team is well aware of this feature being required by users.