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Microsoft Live meeting offers a full set of controls to manage the effective recording, distribution and playback of any event.

You can record part or all of a presentation and then make the recording available to others for later viewing.

The recording includes all of the slides shown, any typed information such as public questions and answers and all annotations placed on slides.

Depending on your configuration, you can also record the telephone-based audio that occurs during the presentation.

To record a meeting, you don’t need to install any additional applications.

All processing occurs on the Microsoft Live Meeting server, and the server publishes and saves all final recordings. The presenter/moderator can also determine the recording file format to be used for making the recording available to others.

The steps required to record a Live Meeting event are the following ones:

1) Access the Recording Control panel from the View menu or by pressing Ctrl-R (please note that this feature is de-activated in the Microsoft Live Meeting try-out).

2) Insert the conference call number (if recording audio for your meeting).

3) Connect to the conference call (if recording audio for your meeting).

4) Check the recording audio levels.

The presenter/moderator prior to the start of the event can set the "Listening to connection" feature to record 10 or 30 seconds of test voice to allow the presenter to listen back to it right away and to assess the quality and sound level of the recording that will be made.

5) Start the recording.

6) Stop the recording and publish it (make it available for others to download/access after the meeting is over).

Depending on the formats that the organizer selected when she originally scheduled the meeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting publishes the recording as one or more of the following:

a) an HTML file containing nonstreaming audio with links to:

audio files,

RealPlayer,

Microsoft Windows Media Player,

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Replay.

The Microsoft Office Live Meeting Replay format is the only one that displays Application Sharing slides (including expanded views), as well as annotations and any of the presenter’s mouse movements. To view a recording in this format, you must install Microsoft Windows Media Player on your computer.

To access and download the different media players please go to the Placeware Support/Download page where you will find all of the players that can be used to play back a Microsoft Live Meeting recorded event.

Please note:

"The Microsoft Office Live Meeting Replay format produces a recording that best reflects the actual meeting. It allows you to record annotations, Sharing slides (including expanded views), and the presenter mouse movements. It is the only format that provides both streaming audio and streaming video, as well as the option to download the saved recording. However, it might not work as well on non-Windows platforms and it requires that you connect at 128 kilobits per second or faster to view the recording."

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Posted on October 08, 2003 at 08:54 AM

Updated on February 27, 2004 at 01:18 PM

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