How do Hosts download recordings as an Mp4?
Currently there are two way Hosts can gain access to the back end of Adobe Connect
Central to download recordings as an Mp4. From:


their Online Meeting room;
within Adobe Connect Central.
From their Online Meeting room
1. Hosts open up a meeting room:
• from a subject or organisation site within Interact2:
or
• by going directly to the meeting room URL.
2. Hosts enter their Online Meeting room with user name and Adobe Connect password
or select “Forgot your password?” link as shown in the following screen grab with
highlighted “Forgot your password?” link as the 3rd dropdown under user name and
Adobe Connect password.
Figure 1: Screen grab of logging in to Online Meeting room with highlighted “Forgot your password?” link as the
3rd dropdown under user name and Adobe Connect password.
3. Hosts then choose “Meeting” (left side of menu bar) 1st dropdown “Manage Meeting
Information” “Manage Meeting Information” which is the first item in the dropdown
“Meeting” menu accessed at the top left hand side of the room as shown in the following
screen grab.
Figure 2: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Meeting menu with highlighted “Manage Meeting Information” which is the first item
in the dropdown “Meeting” menu accessed at the top left hand side of the room.
The “Manage Meeting Information” option will take Hosts into Adobe Connect Central
in a Browser window.
From within a meeting room Adobe Connect Central
1. Hosts log into Adobe Connect Central at http://connect.csu.edu.au with user name and
Adobe Connect password (details of Forgot Password link above).
2. Once in Adobe Connect Central, Hosts select the relevant meeting room information
from the “Meetings”, “My Meetings”, “Meeting List” tab, as shown in the following screen
grab.
Figure 3: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Central with Process to get to selected Meeting link highlighted
Downloading the recordings as mp4
1. When the relevant meeting is selected, Hosts can select the “Recordings” link from
the Meeting Information breadcrumb as shown in the following screen grab.
Figure 4: Adobe Connect Central with highlighted Recordings Tab as the 6th tab in the 3rd menu selection
2. Recordings contains a list of all the recordings for the meeting room.
3. Hosts now select the “Make Offline” option as shown in the following screen grabs.
Figure 5: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Central with highlighted “Actions”, ” Make Offline” the 2nd item in the dropdown
of the Actions selection for the individual Recording
Figure 6: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Central with highlighted “Actions”, “Make Offline” as the 3rd item in the dropdown
from the Actions selection in the Recording information menu.
4. The Offline Recording window will appear with recommendations.
These recommendations (shown in the screen grab) should be followed:
i.
Playing back your recording will allow you to save it to your local machine.
ii.
Set your screen resolution high enough to include all activities that occurred in
the original meeting
iii.
Avoid network or system intensive activities such as installing software or
downloading files during the recording process;
iv.
Disable your screen saver and monitor power settings before proceeding.
Figure 7: Screen grab of Offline Recording recommendations with “Next” button in bottom right hand corner
highlighted.
5. Select “Next”
6. The Default option is set as mp4 as shown in following screen grab.
Figure 8: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Offline Recordings settings with MP4 default highlighted
7. Hosts can choose:
i.
the recording format when making offline copies:
 mp4;
 flv.
ii.
the video quality of the offline recording;
 Mobile;
 Desktop;
 High Definition;
 Full High Definition.
Figure 9: Screen grab of Adobe Connect Offline Recordings settings with MP4 default highlighted and
“Proceed with Offline Recording” button in bottom right hand corner highlighted.
8. Click “Proceed with Offline Recording” button.
Please note:
 Hosts will need to save locally not into a network share location.
 Creating an offline recording takes approximately the same amount of time as
the duration of the original meeting recording.
 You are encouraged to break long recordings into shorter sections and, to
maximise student engagement, include activities for students to do after
they watch sections.
 The “Stop and Save” button ends the creation of a recording which is useful if
you want to record portions of a meeting as separate files.
The “Start New” to resume recording a new file from where
you left off.
9. Select the location you wish to save it to (if you wish to change the name you can do
that by modifying the text in the File Name field). It is recommended that you save it
locally (NOT to a networked share drive).
10. Click “Save” and the meeting recording will start playing back to create the offline
file. On the bottom right hand side the duration of the recording will show so you can
see how long it has to go.
Please note that you can minimise this window whilst the offline recording is
created.
11. Creating an offline recording of a 60 minute meeting will take 60 minutes. As needed
click the buttons (“Pause/Resume”, “Stop and Save” and “Start New”)
 The “Pause/Resume” button temporarily stops the offline recording.
This is useful if it is a long recording but you need to do something else with
your computer that could affect the recording (eg attend meeting using desktop
videoconferencing). If necessary you can pause the recording and resume it
after you finish your other task.
12. When the recording process finishes close the offline recorder window. The
recording is now saved to the location you specified as an .mp4 file.