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Adobe Connect is about to get faster, smarter, and younger with the upcoming Adobe Connect 12 upgrade, scheduled for Spring, 2022.

With this new upgrade, Adobe Connect’s legacy, the Flash-based Classic View will reach its end-of-life. Customers will no longer be able to host or join Adobe Connect sessions using the Classic View.

If you haven’t transitioned your Flash-based content and rooms to the HTML-based Standard View, then now would be the right time , ahead of Adobe Connect 12 release.

For more information, see Adobe Connect Classic View End of Life (EOL) .

Get all information about Adobe Connect meeting recordings. Learn how to make the recordings and transcript offline, edit, manage recording and transcript files, and access the HTML player for them.

A host can record a meeting or training session. When played back, the recording shows exactly what the attendees saw and heard. All pods and interactions in a meeting room are recorded, except for the Presenter Only area and breakout rooms. You can start and stop recording at any time, to control what content gets recorded. A host can create a reference archive of meetings and make the recordings available to attendees.

• Tips to record a meeting

Record a meeting

Stop recording.

• Edit meeting recording
• Edit recording transcript

Offline recordings in Standard view

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Navigate to specific events in recordings, managing recorded meetings, tips for recording meetings.

When recording a meeting, consider the following:

• If you use VoIP and the Video Pod to broadcast audio to meeting attendees, all audio is recorded automatically.
• If you use the Universal Voice solution, you record the audio with the meeting. All telephone-based audio is recorded, and can be played back with the audio conference. The audio heard through computer speakers during an Adobe Connect session is played back. If the audio broadcasting was stopped during the session, users on a telephone can continue to talk and listen to each other, but they are not heard through computer speakers.
• If you do not use Universal Voice, you can use your speakerphone and your computer microphone as recording devices. All audio input to your computer is captured and recorded but is not broadcast to participants. (Because audio is not directly integrated with the meeting in this case, the quality can be lower than using a direct method.)
• If you use an integrated telephony adaptor, begin your recording from within Adobe Connect, not from a telephone key command.
• The meeting recording is assigned a URL and added to the Recordings page associated with the meeting room in Adobe Connect Central. To play a recording, you need an Internet connection, the recording URL, and permission to view it.
• Adobe Connect administrators can change recording settings to adhere to standards for governance. These settings affect how meetings and training sessions are recorded and what is recorded. For more information, see  Working with compliance and control settings .

Start recording a meeting

If you have associated a universal voice audio profile with the meeting, choose Audio > Join Audio Conference.

Choose Meeting > Record Session .

In the Record Session dialog box, enter a Recording name and summary for the meeting recording.

While recording a meeting, if your audio is disabled, enable it by selecting the Turn On Audio Conference option. Or, continue without audio by clicking the Record Without Audio button.

You can pause an ongoing recording. Anything you do in the live meeting during the time you pause the recording is not recorded.

If a problem occurs during the recording, an error message appears in the upper-right corner of the window. You can try to reconnect to the conference audio, record the meeting without audio, or stop recording the meeting.

STOP RECORDING A MEETING

From the Meeting menu, click Stop Recording .

The meeting recording is saved and is available for playback at any time.

Add a reminder to record the session

You can use this feature to initiate a reminder to hosts to record a session.

Choose Meeting > Preferences > General .

Select the checkbox to " Remind me to start recording the session."

Click Done .

This feature is enabled only when force recording is turned off.

About editing meeting recordings

After recording a meeting or training session, you can use the built-in editor to remove sections of the recording. The editor is useful if the recording contains periods of silence or unnecessary information. Following are some tips for editing recordings:

To edit a meeting or virtual classroom recording in the Content library, you must have Manage or higher permissions for the recording. If you created the meeting or virtual classroom, you have these rights by default.

To edit a recording under Meeting > Recordings or Training > Recordings, you must have Host permissions. You can create an index using time tags to enable participants to easily view and navigate through the recording. You can also edit/delete the existing auto-generated time tags.

In addition, you can also create sections within a recording using chapter markers. You can hide the names of participants interacting over chat and retain the content of these interactions.

The link to 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. However, after one user saves their changes, others editing at the same time receive an error when they try to save their changes.

In addition, you can also hide Chat Pod, Attendee Pod, or Q&A Pod, or a combination of these pods. To protect the privacy of individuals, you can also hide the names of the attendees in standard view meeting rooms.

Adobe Connect administrators can change recording settings to adhere to standards for governance. These settings affect how meetings and training sessions are recorded and what is recorded. For more information, see Working with compliance and control settings .

Edit a recorded meeting

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.

For Standard view meeting rooms

From the Adobe Connect Central home page, click Meetings or Training , and then click the meeting or classroom that includes the recording.

Click Recordings .

Click Edit Recording in the Actions pop-up menu, next to the recording that you want to edit.

HTML enables editing the recording in browser as well as in application mode.

Simply click the Play button to search for places that require editing or drag the progress marker to a specific location.

A. Event Index Show/Hide  B. Rewind 15 seconds  C. Pause  D. Forward 15 seconds  E. Selection markers  F. Cut  G. Undo cut  H. Volume control 

Use Tab key to navigate through all the buttons in the recording editor.

Use the selection markers to specify the areas of the recording you want to remove, and click Cut .

(Optional) At the left of the meeting window, click A to show the Events Index pane, where you can Navigate to specific events in recordings .

(Optional) To remove changes, click Undo to remove individual edits made you last saved to restore the recording to its original state.

Remove any additional sections. When you have finished, click Save .

Add bookmarks to the recording

Bookmarks can be added to the recordings to call attention to a certain point for future viewers to identify places that they can easily return to. 

Click on the Add Bookmark  from the options on the far left hand side.

Select the Add Bookmark icon from this menu. Once you click the bookmark icon, you are prompted to set a timestamp and name of your bookmark. You can also add some notes, if required. 

Click Done . The bookmark now appears in the recording at the specified timestamp.

View, Edit or Delete recordings

In addition to viewing, editing or deleting the bookmarks, you can also add chapters in the recordings. Chapters can be added at any point along the recording timeline bar for the existing bookmarks. Chapters allow you to highlight changes at places within the recording that can be referred for discussions.

In the panel at the left corner, the bookmarks for all recordings are seen with timestamps. Click a bookmark to open a recording right to bookmarked time.

A. Add Chapter  B. Edit recording  C. Delete recording 

To add a chapter name, click on Add Chapter . The chapter is added above the selected bookmark.

The CEF based application has only the option of persistent index pane in the recording playback in the edit recoding mode. Overlay index pane is not available for CEF-based application unlike Flash-based applications.

For WebRTC meeting rooms

Click Edit Recording in the Actions drop-down menu.

(Optional) To go back to original state, click on Revert to original icon on top.

Remove any additional sections. When you have finished, click Save edits .

Edit a recording transcript

Editing a recording's transcript aids in improving accuracy, rectifying mistakes, and enhancing readability of transcripts. Transcripts are generated by Automatic speech recognition (ASR), which can have errors due to background noise, accents, and technical limitations. The transcript editor in the recording editor will help in rectifying these errors.

• Transcript Editor is still in the Beta version of Adobe Connect 12.6 version.
• A transcript should be available with the recording. Currently, recordings will also be transcribed if ASR is enabled from preferences when the recording starts. 
• For 12.6, we need to ensure that the checkbox "Show transcript viewer (Beta)" is checked from the edit recording information page for each recording to access the transcript editor in the recording editor. 

Select Transcript, which is present at the lower right of the screen. It opens the transcript of the recording.

Double-click on the text you want to edit. It opens in a text editor. Make the required changes.

Click on resizer to resize the text.

Click on     to save the changes in text editor.

(Optional) To revert any modifications, select Undo to eliminate specific edits made during your last save and return the transcript to its initial state.

Click Save edits .

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In Adobe Connect Classic View, you could convert and download an Adobe Connect session recording offline, in MP4 or FLV format. The conversion happens using the Adobe Connect application for desktop.

From Connect 11.3, you can convert a meeting into MP4, and download recordings in the Standard view.

Start recording

To download an Adobe Connect meeting for offline viewing, follow the steps below:

Log in to Adobe Connect Central and locate the recording that you want to convert to MP4 format.

In the Actions drop-down list, click  Make Offline > Standard view .

• In the recording viewer window, click the gear icon in the lower-right corner to access the settings panel ,
• Attendee Names: By choosing this option names will appear anonymous, so instead of real names, they will be replaced by ‘User1’, ‘User2’, etc. in all the pods where names appear (Video, Chat, Q&A, Attendee, and Share.
• Chat Pod: Display or hide the Chat pod in the recording.
• Attendee pod: Display or hide the Attendee pod in the recording.
• Q&A pod: Display or hide the Q&A pod in the recording.
• Video Quality: These presets are provided to allow you to easily select combinations of resolution and frame rates for different target outcomes. However, each parameter can be adjusted individually to create a custom profile.
• Resolution: Choose the resolution (720p, 1080p, etc.) for the resulting recording.
• Bandwidth: Choose the recording bandwidth from the drop-down list. The recording will dynamically adjust the video parameters, such as video compression, to attempt to stay below this value.
• Quality:   This value affects the compression of the video frames, sometimes making the video slightly smaller or larger.
• Profile:  These provide different levels of video compression. Baseline is the lowest compression but the best playback compatibility.
• Frames per sec: Frames Per Second (FPS) is a measure of the number of video frames that are displayed per second.
• On Windows only you can enable the option Record silently, if you want the recording to continue in the muted mode. The result will contain the audio, but the audio will be stripped of during creation of the mp4 file. Enable the option Set as default , if you want to keep these settings for the next time you make a recording offline.

Once you’ve made the changes, click Start Recording . In the dialog that follows, name the recording (MP4), and choose the location for saving the file.

Adobe Connect Recording Offline Utility

Adobe Connect provides a utility program to convert a single or multiple recordings into mp4. The conversion is done in a batch.

Note:  Ensure that the Adobe Connect application must be installed. 

This is a Windows-only utility.

To run the utility, perform the steps below:

Download the utility from the  site  and unzip the contents.

Double-click the utility,  Offliner.exe . 

In the Enter Recording URL field, enter the meeting URL, and click Add . In the Adobe Connect log in screen, enter the user name and password. 

After signing in, you can see the meeting is queued and is ready for conversion.

If you want to add another meeting URL and click  Add . Now, both the meetings are queued, and ready for conversion.

To convert the meetings into mp4 videos, click  Start .

To trim the length of the recording, click  Stop .

Closed Captions

If your meeting included closed captioning during the live meeting, then those captions will, by default, be included or ‘burned-in’ to the resulting video file. You can adjust the text size, colors, and placement of the captions once you start the recording, or you can turn off the captions to prevent them from showing in the video file.

A dialog box pops up when the conversion has finished and provides the details of the actual recording. The actual quality and resolution of the generated MP4 file depends on your system resources and may be equal to or lower than the chosen settings.

When you stop recording midway, the MP4 that is saved contains the recording up to the point when it was stopped. This is useful when you want only a portion of the meeting to be recorded.

In the  Restart recording  dialog, you can either save the current recording or discard it, and then restart the recording.

Known issues/limitations

• On macOS, when recording, we recommend that users do not switch between applications.
• On macOS, you cannot record a meeting on muted mode.

Convert and download recordings in MP4 or FLV format

You can convert and download an Adobe Connect session recording offline, in MP4 or FLV format. This conversion happens on your local system using the Adobe Connect application for desktop .

• Recordings converted to mp4 will be created in  Classic view  (not the  Standard view ).
• The offline recording does not contain audio, if any, from the shared HTML content. HTML5 content created using Adobe Captivate 9 and Adobe Presenter 11 is supported in Virtual Classrooms and its recordings.

Against the recording, click Actions to open the pop-up menu and click Make Offline . The recording is opened in the Adobe Connect application along with a pop-up dialog.

In the Offline Recording dialog, select MP4 or FLV as an output option. Also, select the quality using either the slider or by customizing the settings of the output by selecting Advanced Options.

Optionally, to save the Advanced Options as the default, click the check box Set as default.

The set as default option is client-specific that means on a specific machine a user can continue to use set defaults. On a different machine, the system default (HD quality) remains.

Click Proceed with Offline Recording. Browse and save the file in a local folder. The recording will play in the Adobe Connect application and get converted to MP4 or FLV file. A dialog box pops up when the conversion has finished and provides the details of the actual recording. The actual quality and resolution of the generated MP4 file depends on your system resources and may be equal to or lower than the chosen settings. Check the pop-up dialog box at the end for the Resolution and the FPS achieved.

Play back a recorded meeting

A host or presenter makes the recording URL available so attendees can play the recording. Every recording is automatically assigned a unique URL and is stored on the Recordings tab for the meeting room in Adobe Connect Central.

When you play a recording, a recording navigation bar appears in a space below the meeting room. For optimal performance, a high-speed Internet connection is recommended for recording playback.

A. Pause/Play toggle button  B. Progress marker  C. Elapsed/total time 

You control who has access to the recording:

Any user invited to the meeting using the invitees or enrollee tabs in Adobe Connect Central can view the recording if given the recording URL.

Hosts can view information, such as permissions, if they have rights to browse to the Adobe Connect Central folder where the recording is stored.

Anyone with Internet access can view the recording if you make it public. Alternatively, you can move the recording to the Content library and set specific user permissions (moving the recording to the Content library is irreversible.)

Adobe Connect administrators can change pod, sharing, and other settings to adhere to standards for governance. These settings affect the layout of meeting rooms and what you can do in meeting rooms. For more information, see Working with compliance and control settings .

Play a recording from Adobe Connect Central (hosts and presenters)

• Click the Recordings option.
• Click the name of the recording.

To view the last edited version of the recording, click the URL For Viewing.

To view the full, original, unedited version of the recording, click View Original.

You either view the original version of the recording or the latest edited version; multiple edited versions of the recording are not saved. (If the recording was never edited, the URL For Viewing is the same as View Original.)

Play a recording from a URL (for attendees)

Hosts and Presenters typically share a recording with the attendees by sending an email containing the URL of the recording.

The recording opens in your browser and is ready for playback. If you are unable to open the recording, check if you have the permission to access the recording.

• Audio with Opus codec will not play back in the classic view. You cannot create an MP4 for Opus codec-enabled meeting.
• When creating offline recordings, the recordings will be in the classic view, not the standard view.

With Adobe Connect 10.6, users can now watch HTML versions of Adobe Connect recordings in a web browser on most platforms without the need to use a Flash player or other plug-ins and try a new 'beta' HTML viewer for mobile browsers. Existing recordings created with Adobe Connect 9 or higher shall also be available through the HTML viewer. Apart from the HTML viewer, users can also choose to watch the recordings in a classic view through the Adobe Connect desktop application.

The new HTML viewer for recordings is only available if the HTML client has been enabled for the meeting room where the recording took place, or if the recording has been moved to the content library.

Any non-hybrid custom pods or non-hybrid content (i.e. SWF, FLV, Presenter, Captivate, etc...) present in the recordings will not be visible in the HTML viewer. To view this content, users should switch to the classic view.

For each meeting recording, a new indexed event is created for every chat message, layout change, slide change, and camera start or stop. Each event is listed in an Events Index, along with a timestamp. You can filter and browse the index to quickly navigate to specific events.

Click the Filter pop-up menu to select specific events to view. You can show all events, a single event, event types, or any combination of events that can be indexed. Events that can be filtered include layout changes, chat messages, slide changes, and users joining or leaving the Attendees or Video pod.

Search for specific events: type keywords into the search box and click Find. All events that contain a match appear highlighted. You can look for names of meeting participants, text in all Notes pods, text in all Chat pods, and text on meeting slides.

You can view all recordings made for a particular meeting, change permissions, rename, or move a recording, or view a content report for a recording. Also, a recorded meeting can be used as content for another meeting. (If a recording has been edited, edits are preserved if the recording is moved to the Content library.)

View a list of recorded meetings

You can access all the recordings owned by you, directly in Home > My Recordings tab. You can sort the list of recordings, search for recordings, or launch a recording. Use a minimum of three characters in the search field to search through the recording names. For more information, see Adobe Connect Central home page .

If you are an administrator or have Manage permissions for a meeting folder, you can view the recordings that have been created from a meeting room.

• Click the Meetings tab at the top of the Adobe Connect Central home page.
• If there is more than one meeting folder, navigate to the folder that contains the meeting.
• Click the meeting name in the list.

Depending on your license and your permissions, all the tabs displayed in the top row in Adobe Connect Central may not be visible.

Move recordings to the Content library

An administrator or a user with permissions to manage a specific Meetings library folder can move meeting recordings from the folder to the Content library.

Moving a meeting recording to the Content library is useful if you want to give access to people other than the original invitees.

To make a recording available to anyone in the world that is given the recording URL, see Play back a recorded meeting .

• Navigate to the meeting that has recordings you want to move.
• In the Meeting Information page, click the Recordings link on the navigation bar.
• Select the check box to the left of any recording that you want to move.
• Click Move To Folder on the navigation bar.
• Navigate to the folder in the Content library where you want to move the recording. (As you navigate, the new destination appears in the upper right of the Adobe Connect Central window.)
• Click Move.

Recordings when moved to content library can be tracked under the Reports for Number of Views and detailed Time In and Time Out of registered users.

Edit recording information

• From the Adobe Connect Central home page, click Meetings or Training. Then click the meeting or classroom that includes the recording.
• In the Recording Information bar, click Edit.
• Revise the title, summary, and language as desired.
• To update any items linked to the recording with the revised information, select Update Information For Any Items Linked To This Item.

Delete a meeting recording

Only an administrator or a user with permissions to manage that specific Meetings library folder can delete a meeting recording.

If you delete a meeting room, you can retain the associated meeting recordings. You are prompted to move all the recordings to your My Content section. You can choose to not move the recordings and delete them along with the meeting room.

• Navigate to the meeting that has recordings you want to delete.
• On the Recordings page, select the check box to the left of any recording you want to delete.
• Click Delete above the list.
• Click Delete on the confirmation page.

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When uploading a PowerPoint with speaker notes to an Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom (VC), you may notice the lack of a Notes Tab in the PPTX in the VC Share Pod – even if you had rich notes in the PowerPoint file, they may not appear.

There is an easy workaround in Adobe Presenter to make sure that your speaker notes always appear in the Notes Tab in the Share Pod in the uploaded PPTX. This feature is driven in xml and can easily be edited.

The first step is to publish the PPTX with Adobe Presenter to a zip format locally:

Choose the local ‘My Computer’ publish option along with ‘Both’ formats as swf and HTML are both needed for this application even if only HTML5 is finally rendered in the Adobe Connect classroom (discussed further anon).

Unzip the output file and find the vconfig.xml file in the data directory:

Look for the tag named “notes” and edit it from “false” to “true” being careful not to damage the xml data with an unfriendly editor:

Re-zip the edited project and upload it to the Adobe Connect Content Library or directly to the VC Share Pod as appropriate. Now you will see the Notes Tab in the PPTX in the VC Share Pod:

I mentioned earlier that the appropriate publish option in Adobe Presenter (and this applies to Adobe Captivate as well) to choose is both html5 and swf output for this exercise. The reason for this is that in an Adobe Connect VC Share Pod, content published in a zip as HTML5 only will not be recognized as a supported zip for upload (not all zip files are up-loadable to Adobe Connect). And the swf only publish output option, while recognized and up-loadable, will not properly covert for rendering in the HTML client and warnings in Adobe Connect about this abound:

Choose ‘Both’ to enable all upload and conversion capabilities even if the final output to clients will be strictly HTML:

Although I never use PPT (but Captivate) when presenting in Connect, this is certainly a great article for other users!

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An simple pod that lets you have a marquee or horizontally scrolling text to notify your users of any current event.

WordSearch Pod

Have your participants find and mark the words in the puzzle box.

Connectordle

A guessing game for participants to determine a word set by hosts with limited attempts.

Image Carousel Pod

Loops through a series of your images on a timed-basis.

Full Pod Image

Display images at 100% height and width to fill the custom pod.

iFrame Pod by Envolvemedia

Display external websites or content, such as SCORM-based content in an iFrame in a meeting

App Kit designed by webqem

Elevate your virtual experiences and apply your branding. Apps include: Event Countdown Timer, Activity Timer, Audio Player, Random Picker, and Sponsor Board.

Calendar Connect

Add a shared calendar to your Adobe Connect rooms.

House Keeper

Show customized housekeeping details to your participants.

Jigsaw Puzzle Pod

Use the Jigsaw Puzzle Pod by Envolvemedia to break any image into pieces for participants to solve.

Save Our Sheep Pod

Add a challenge to your Adobe Connect Meetings with Save Our Sheep Pod. Create a bridge for the sheep to safely cross

Include critical thinking to your meetings, in a fun/interactive way using the Sudoku Pod.

QR Code Pod

Quickly add a QR Code to your meetings or events using the QR Code Pod by Envolvemedia.

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MeetingOne now offers Adobe Connect integration  for Blackboard Learn 9.1.

Brightspace LMS Integration

Brightspace's online teaching and learning platform now integrates Adobe Connect.

Canvas LMS Integration

Educators have the ability to use Canvas seamlessly with Adobe Connect through LTI integration.

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Enter Adobe Connect meetings, launch Adobe Presenter and Adobe Captivate presentations, and watch event recordings with a single click from inside Moodle.

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Built for learning, Moodle's personalized learning platform now unites with Adobe Connect through LTI integration.

Sakai LMS Integration

Further expand educational experiences with integration between Sakai Open Source LMS software and Adobe Connect.

SAP Enterprise Learning Integration

Conduct virtual learning events with integration between Adobe Connect and the SAP Enterprise Learning (EL) platform.

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Create Adobe Connect meetings, plus enjoy simple scheduling, registration and entry from the SumTotal learning platform.

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4 Tips to Optimize Adobe Connect for Better Experiences

March 19th, 2019 MeetingOne Contributor Posted In: MeetingOne Blog , Support Blog , Web Conferencing

Adobe Connect has long been one of the best platforms for creating meaningful experiences. Companies around the world choose Adobe Connect for online meetings, virtual training, and webinars because it delivers experiences for their audiences that are more engaging than other platforms.

With a platform that provides the most robust functionality on the market, it also means there are certain things a user can set up as best practice to achieve a great user experience. Simply consider your content and room – a  few small tweaks can optimize Adobe Connect for the best experience possible.

In this blog, we’re going to look at 4 areas where prepping your content and room correctly will optimize Adobe Connect and ensure a better user experience:

• Screen Sharing

4 Quick Tips to Optimize Adobe Connect

These tips were developed by MeetingOne’s Technical Adobe Connect expert,  Matt Drew .

Be sure to always use these recommended tips to fully optimize your Adobe Connect account. The outcome will be a greater experience for your audiences and other users.

Optimize Video Content

When optimizing video for Adobe Connect, it is important to understand that Connect will deliver (or attempt to deliver) exactly how the video is set up to stream.   If you load a video that is too large or settings are for Blu-ray or Broadcast (which is the default for most video output and export settings), users will have a hard time streaming that video.

To best optimize a video, you need to approach it from the mindset that the video needs to be set up to play on the most common of connections on the internet.

Make sure to set your videos playback settings using these specs:

• Frame Size: 800px Width max
• Bit Rate: 500kbps to 1mbps; 800kbps is a good medium to start with.
• Audio-bit Rate:  No more than 41kbps. Humans cannot notice a difference in audio with any setting over this.

Taking these steps will optimize Adobe Connect for a better video enjoyment experience.

Optimize Content Font

Being web based, Adobe Connect follows the standard rules of browsers. All browsers recognize a preset list of fonts. These are called “Universal Fonts.” Some browsers also support other fonts that others do not. These are called “Browser Specific Fonts.”

If you load a PowerPoint into Connect that uses a font not supported by the browser the viewer is in, the browser in use will change the font within their Connect view.  This can cause issues to size, alignment, or cause text to go missing.

Of course, it would be terrible to displace text. The audience may miss out on valuable content.

To avoid these kind of changes to your presentation, stick to the most common Universal Fonts.  Please note that the fonts listed are specific and not all variants of these fonts are supported universally.

Universal Fonts fonts will give you the best results are:

• Arial Black
• Times New Roman
• Courier New

PowerPoints are critical for online presentations. And if your slides are going bonkers, it’s going to affect the experience in a significant way. So use this helpful tip to make sure your fonts can be seen!

Optimize for Screen Sharing

As noted earlier, Adobe Connect is used for online events of all kinds . Online meetings and training. Webinars. Virtual panels and interviews. Often, the occasion arises where screen sharing becomes a must.

Adobe Connect allows you three options:

• Uploading files to the Share Pod.
• Screen sharing files from a desktop.
• Upload files to the Connect content Library.

In first two instances, you need to be aware of how large the file is you intend to share. Screen sharing from a desktop can become a large bandwidth suck. The more bandwidth required, the likelihood for latency increases. To understand file sizes better, check out the reference chart on GreenNet’s blog .

Uploading a file into your Adobe Connect virtual room is limited to ~100 Mb, based on Matt’s experience. Files any larger will not be uploaded successfully.

When possible, it is always better to upload content intended to be shared before the session. Unlike many platforms on the market, Adobe Connect offers a content library for certain use cases. The space offered is large enough to manage documents of any size – and it has unlimited storage to help store all the assets and documents you’ll ever need!

Once in the content library, the files can be pulled into your Adobe Connect room at any time. Taking this approach allows you to avoid the problem altogether. It’s a simple and efficient way to optimize Adobe Connect!

Optimize Adobe Connect Bandwidth

Bandwidth always comes into play during online events of any kind. Being aware of the bandwidth demands you are putting on audiences will affect the final product.

Everything in a virtual room consumes bandwidth. Webcam feeds. Screen sharing. Chats. File downloading and uploading. While most won’t overburden people’s connection capacity, it’s still wise to know some tricks for reducing bandwidth demands in Adobe Connect.

Adjustments to Reduce Bandwidth demand in Adobe Connect:

• Pause your webcam, use it intermittently, or use a picture instead.
• Reduce web cam and screen share quality in Adobe Connect Central or in room Preferences. Don’t drop the quality down too much, though.
• Integrate your room with telephony so users can simply call in by phone instead of using VoIP. (Learn more about integrating telephony here !)

Continue Striving for a Better Experience

The goal when you optimize Adobe Connect should be to improve the outcome of your online events. Making smart choices about video, fonts, file sizes, and bandwidth are critical steps for achieving a better outcome.

Tips provided by Matt Drew, MeetingOne  Technical  Account Manager.

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Matt comes from a long background of working with Learning Management Systems, specifically Adobe Captivate Prime. He has been involved in projects including the creation of content for eLearning and managing and facilitating virtual learning programs. Today, Matt provides technical assistance as a Technical Account Manager in Connect, Presenter, and Captivate authoring tools.

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Adobe Express and ChatGPT team up to bring conversation to content creation

With the explosion of visual communication and storytelling, marketers, creators, and businesses of all sizes must create content that helps them stand out in a crowded landscape. However, many lack the time, resources, and experience with creative tools to bring their ideas to life through differentiated content.

Adobe Express was built to address those needs. An easy-to-use, all-in-one AI content creation app, Adobe Express is revolutionizing the way everyone creates standout content. And today, we’re excited to bring even more creative possibilities to millions of users through our new Adobe Express GPT for ChatGPT, as part of the growing collection of custom GPTs available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, Team and Enterprise.

From chat to standout content in minutes

Generative AI is ushering in new opportunities for creative expression and bringing creativity and productivity together in ways that are more interconnected and complementary than ever before. And with the new Adobe Express GPT for ChatGPT, all you need to get started is an idea and your own words.

From within the Adobe Express GPT, enter a prompt about what you want to create — perhaps a flyer or Instagram post — the subject matter — like an advertisement or invitation — and other pertinent details — like specific colors, preferred imagery, and anything else in your imagination. The Express GPT then searches through a collection of more than 200,000 professionally designed templates from Adobe’s top artists and responds with a collection that matches your request. With a single click on one of those templates, you can take your selected design into Adobe Express for design, editing, exporting, or publishing.

Within Adobe Express, you can “talk to” Adobe Firefly generative AI-powered features like Text to Image to create new images and Generative Fill, which makes it simple to remove or replace objects with a few words. You can also access a massive library of beautifully designed assets, including stunning video and multipage templates, more than 28,000 Adobe Fonts , and hundreds of thousands of Adobe Stock videos, music tracks, images, and more.

How the Adobe Express GPT works

Select the Adobe Express GPT: To get started, just click on this link to access the Adobe Express GPT. You can also access by clicking on “Explore GPTs” and searching for Adobe Express in Open AI’s GPT store.

Start with a creative prompt: For both individual creators and brands looking to level up digitally, the Adobe Express GPT can help narrow down the best creative templates based on what you’re looking for. For instance, ask the GPT for help with designing a digital ad or Instagram Reel for an online sale. In the image below, the result shown is in response to the prompt, "Create a colorful, fun and vibrant flyer for my coffee shop."

Select the best template for your design: Once you click on the template that best fits your design needs, the template will open directly inside the Adobe Express app on your desktop browser with the pre-loaded template. You can start to edit the design or choose to go back to Express GPT and select another template before clicking over to Adobe Express to design, edit and even publish your content to popular social channels.

Firefly generative AI — designed to be safe for commercial use

Adobe is committed to developing our AI technologies responsibly. Our AI models and features are designed in alignment with our AI ethics principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency .

Our Firefly generative AI models were trained on licensed content, like Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired. Firefly models are designed to be safe for commercial use.

Check out Adobe Express

If you’re not a ChatGPT premium user, you can access Adobe Express directly on desktop and in the all-new mobile app in beta. Click here to get started .

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Adobe and Microsoft partner to bring new generative AI capabilities to marketers as they work in Microsoft 365 applications

These new integrated capabilities will connect Adobe Experience Cloud applications and Microsoft Dynamics 365 natively within productivity and collaboration tools such as Outlook, Teams, and Word while using Copilot for Microsoft 365 to accomplish a range of marketing activities such as developing creative briefs, creating content, managing approvals and more.

Marketers need next-generation AI

The marketing discipline is fractured, specialized, and siloed with many different marketing tools, and many marketers, especially in the enterprise, don’t use specialized tools at all. As a result, teams often don’t succeed.

Connecting Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot to deliver generative AI-powered capabilities enables modern marketers to:

• Boost marketing efficiency with easy access to insightful data. AI creates marketing briefs, content, and internal reporting all based on insights from your marketing and planning meetings.
• Save hours spent toggling between multiple tools. Enhance effectiveness across marketing activities with quick Q&A. AI answers top-of-mind marketing questions ranging from project status to campaign effectiveness within minutes to democratize knowledge across teams.
• Empower marketing teams to always stay current, right in the flow of work. AI summarizes notifications and tasks across the marketing lifecycle and surfaces them in the Microsoft 365 tools marketers frequently use, enabling them to stay on top of any updates and assignments.

Create and access data-driven campaign briefs in Microsoft 365 apps

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Marketers want to craft data-driven briefs that specify attainable outcomes, target audiences, marketing mix, messaging, imagery, and style with confidence that the campaign will move the business forward.

Often, the data needed to find insights and build data-driven campaign briefs is hard for those writing the briefs to retrieve or explore to get insights.

Marketers will be able to:

Create data-driven briefs and sub-briefs in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. With access to marketing data, Copilot can generate the insights marketers need to achieve the ideal objective or goal, the key target audiences, the best tactics to reach them, and the ideal tone and voice. From a high-level brief, Copilot can jump-start the creation of all the sub-briefs.

Campaign brief Q&A chat in Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps. Campaign context is readily available to marketers in their Microsoft 365 applications. Chat with Copilot about what campaigns are live or being developed to gain access to the campaign briefs. Ask about the KPIs, audiences, and messages for a brief and receive a summarized response.

Provide, manage, and respond to feedback and approvals on marketing artifacts in Outlook and Teams

Feedback and approvals often delay go-lives or updates as they can get lost in email, create confusion across different versions of a marketing artifact, and require going to tools that are disconnected from the artifact itself. It is often difficult to find the artifacts to approve, and challenging to determine their approval status and what is required to finalize the approvals.

Use Copilot to summarize stakeholder feedback and automatically create action items across multiple sources including meeting transcriptions, emails, and document comments, and reconcile them with centralized approval systems. For documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Copilot provides feedback summaries and action items right within the document itself.

Get approval, Q&A, and notifications in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Understand status, outstanding items, documents or artifacts that require review or approval, and receive proactive notifications of actions and deadlines right from within Microsoft 365.

Connect a brief with feedback and approval tools right from Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Reconcile, access, and trigger feedback and approvals in work management systems right from within the briefs in Microsoft 365.

Track, manage, and report on work progress in Microsoft 365 apps

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Marketing teams need to track and report on the progress of campaigns and their components. This is required across roles, including marketing ops, content marketers, creatives, agencies, analysts, project managers, and owners of channel and journeys. Being able to track all marketing projects, their goals, and team member capacity and output can be difficult, impeding proper prioritization, and making it hard to estimate when a project will be completed.

Access work management Q&A and chat-based work item updates via Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps. Get quick answers to project progress and completion dates, dependencies, and more. Managers or execs looking to understand the state of the project, or individuals wanting information from their work items, all can use Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps to seamlessly access and update work items in Teams or right where they are working in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Report on project work progress in Outlook, Teams, or PowerPoint. When sending a status report, creating an exec presentation, or sending a quick summary in Teams, these capabilities generate what is required across progress, time spent, completion, capacity, and key dependencies right in the apps marketers are using.

Receive work item notifications. Proactive notifications right in Teams provide a summary of resources that may be sitting idle, summary of changes in a work item, and changes that affect other teams with dependencies including completion or event dates.

Turn a brief into a project plan. Automatically generate plans, work tracking, and meeting cadences in a work management system and Outlook. Create work items based on feedback, track work completion, and notify the team of changes along the way.

Understand and communicate campaign effectiveness in Excel, Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint

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Marketing departments are always looking to deliver efficient programs and campaigns that have high ROI. Yet, getting answers about the results and KPIs of a campaign, and insights into what is driving those results, can be difficult and require multiple tools and people to answer, consuming both time and resources.

Access marketing analytics Q&A chat via Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps. Enable marketers and business leaders to get direct answers to their questions in everyday words, in the Microsoft 365 flow of work. This includes descriptive (“Show me currently live campaigns,” “How much revenue has this campaign generated,” or “How much have we spent?”), diagnostic (“Why is journey X underperforming?”) and predictive (“Will this campaign hit its goal by next week?”). For business leaders, instead of trying to “find that link,” they can simply ask Copilot questions they have about campaign or business KPIs and get answers right in Teams, with links to the full dashboards and last reviews.

Report on campaign effectiveness in Outlook, Teams, Excel, or PowerPoint. When sending a status report, creating an exec presentation, or sending a quick summary in Teams, this solution will generate what’s needed across key outcomes and key metrics (such as spend, sends, open rates, impressions, leads, and revenue) right in the apps marketers are using.

Use a research canvas to discover insights into effectiveness. Use a generative AI-first research canvas within Microsoft 365 to write an email, prepare a presentation, or create a brief in Word or Excel to discover insights about effectiveness to share with the team or to inform future campaigns.

Author marketing content in Word and PowerPoint

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Marketers often ideate on experiences within Microsfot 365 applications because those are the tools they use every day. Generating content can be time consuming, and it can be difficult to find inspiration that aligns to campaign objectives. Additionally, marketers often aren’t able translate their ideas directly into customer-facing experiences. Their contributions are typically mediated by technical team members who create final content and activate it in the delivery tools. This mediation can lead to lengthy communication cycles and slow time to market.

Generate marketing content and update websites with relevant context. With Adobe Experience Manager Sites capabilities integrated into Copilot for Microsoft 365, marketers can create imagery with Adobe Firefly generative AI, generate copy for marketing experiences directly in Word, and then publish to channels such as web and mobile.

For more details about the Adobe and Microsoft partnership click here .

As Senior Director of Experience Cloud Product Management, Daniel Sheinberg drives cross-product initiatives, including content supply chain, as well as the unification of the user experience across Experience Cloud. He and his team also lead customer feedback programs, user guidance, and product measurement across Adobe’s Digital Experience portfolio. Earlier in his Adobe career, Daniel led product management for Adobe Target where he was responsible for the product strategy and roadmap for Adobe’s experimentation and personalization engine. Daniel joined Adobe in 2013 from Microsoft, where he led yield management and the advertising exchange for Microsoft’s display advertising business.