Thursday, October 20, 2011

Using an HD Video Camera to share live video

Sharing your webcam with Adobe Connect is super simple. You plug in your camera, hit the 'Start my webcam' button, confirm the preview and you're good to go.

However, things aren't necessarily as plug-and-play with some HD cameras. I've had some people report that they've run into issues trying to use an HD camera as a video source. There have been two type of issues reported:


Issue Cause Resolution
Black screen when sharing video Your camera's frame size and frame rate is too high for Adobe Connect (black screen). Use a program like Xsplit, which will let you create a virtual camera based on the HD input and expose it to Connect at a more appropriate quality/frame rate (e.g. 640x480, 20fps). Adobe Connect can then use this virtual camera and display it in the meeting.. You can download Xsplit here: http://www.xsplit.com/download


Part of the video is clipped Your camera is capturing video at 16x9 aspect ratio. Our camera & voice pod only supports 4x3 aspect ratio. Change your camera settings to 4:3 vs 16:9.

Thanks to my colleague Heyward for the Xsplit tip.

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