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I have links to recorded conferences, how can I export video from them?

Franck Dernoncourtmichael nesterenkomichael nesterenko

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1. Log into your Adobe Connect account
2. Click on Meetings >My Meetings
3. Click on the link for the recording
4. Click the “Recordings” link (right-side of screen)
5. Click the link in the “Name” column
6. Copy the “URL for Viewing” – Example, http://mycompany.adobeconnect.com/p12345678/
7. Paste it into a new browser tab then add the following to the end of the URL: output/filename.zip?download=zip
8. Your URL should look similar to this example, http://mycompany.adobeconnect.com/p12345678/output/filename.zip?download=zip

I wrote this Python script to export an Adobe Connect recording as a video:

Explanation on how the script works:

Assume that the Adobe Connect ID is p6vwxp2d0c2f, i.e. the URL is https://my.adobeconnect.com/p6vwxp2d0c2f. You can add /output/p6vwxp2d0c2f.zip?download=zip at the end of the URL to download some zip archive containing a bunch of audio and video files as well as some .xml files. E.g., https://my.adobeconnect.com/p6vwxp2d0c2e/output/p6vwxp2d0c2e.zip?download=zip could contain:

• cameraVoip__.xml contains the audio + webcam if any.
• screenshare__.xml contains the audio + webcam if any.

To merge them, you can use ffmpeg (I took the ffmpeg commands from Oliver Wang / Yannick Hold-Geoffroy / Aaron Hertzmann):

where:

• -map 0:a:0: map the first input file to be used just for the audio.
• -map 1:v:0: map the second input file to be used just for the video.
• -shortest: cut the audio or video in case cameraVoip_1_11.flv and screenshare_2_10.flv don't have the same length.

If you want to keep the webcam video and place it in some corner of the video screen sharing:

Regarding mapping the cameraVoip__.xml to the correct screenshare__.xml, in case there is more than one:

One could look at the cameraVoip__.xml / screenshare__.xml to get the timestamps of when the audio / screen share video began. This allows to map the screenshare__.xml with the correct cameraVoip__.xml.

E.g., in https://my.adobeconnect.com/p6vwxp2d0c2f/output/p6vwxp2d0c2f.zip?download=zip, from cameraVoip_1_11.xml, line 21:

Otherwise, another way could be to sort cameraVoip__.xml / screenshare__.xml, then map the first cameraVoip__.xml with the first screenshare__.xml, the second cameraVoip__.xml with the first screenshare__.xml, etc. I don't know if it'd break in some cases (seems to be ok for the couple of Adobe Connect recordings I looked at but perhaps that's because people always share screens).

Franck DernoncourtFranck Dernoncourt

In Connect Central, in the recording listings, there is a Make Offline link. This will create an FLV of the recording on your local machine. Unfortunately, creating this video this takes as long as the recording takes to play. Follow the guidance given by the app for best quality.

You can then transcode the FLV to the format you prefer.

You must be a host of the meeting recorded or have moved the recording into the content library.

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