Mikogo 2.0: How to Record Meetings
Today I would like to give you a quick tour through our new meeting recording and playback feature.
To start recording your meeting just click on the “M” icon, move your mouse to “Recording” and click “Start”.
If this is the first time you have recorded a meeting, you will be asked where you want the recording to be saved. We suggest that you save the recordings under My Documents/Mikogo/records, but you can of course select your preferred folder. Keep in mind that after selecting your preferred location Mikogo will automatically save your future recordings to this location.
If you later wish to change the location please go into the Mikogo settings and select the “Start Options” tab where you can select a different location for your recordings.
When you are recording a meeting a red circle will show up in the Mikogo menu, which indicates that you are currently recording your meeting. During the recording you have the following options:
- Pause – Recording will be paused and can be resumed at any time. If you paused the recording a blue icon will be shown in the Mikogo menu
- Stop – Recording will be stopped and saved in your chosen location (see above).
- Cancel – Recording will be stopped but not saved
It’s important to note that recorded meetings can only be played back with the Mikogo Meeting Player. The Meeting Player is located in the Mikogo program folder. Alternatively the Meeting Player can be downloaded separately.
To playback a recorded meeting, click on the folder icon in order to select the recorded meeting.
When you open a recorded meeting for the first time an “Index missing” window will pop-up and asks you to index the recorded meeting. Indexing allows you to jump back and forth randomly to different positions in the recording during playback.
After indexing the recording you can playback and watch your meeting.
The Meeting Player control panel gives you the following options during playback:
From left to right:
- Open recorded session
- Stop playback
- Play/Pause playback
- Decrease playback speed
- Increase playback speed
- Rewind 2 seconds
- Forward 2 seconds
- Automatic zoom
- Maximize playback window
And finally, a few extra details about the free Mikogo meeting recordings
- Meetings are recorded in a proprietary file format (.bs4) and can just be played back with the Mikogo Meeting Player. Exporting the recorded meeting into a different file format is not supported.
- There needs to be at least one participant in your Mikogo meeting to record the meeting. If you don’t have any participants in your meeting, you can still click on “Start” recording but Mikogo will not record your screen.
- Only your screen will be recorded. Audio is not supported.
Now you have a great way to keep track and record your free Mikogo meetings.
Enjoy your weekend!
Hi,
will the new mikogo also be mac compatible ?
Mikogo v2.0 is not natively running on Mac OS X. At the moment Mikogo is Windows only.
Is audio going to be supported in the future? Would be helpful…
Zeb Olsen
http://www.ZebOlsen.com
“Helping The Best Get Better”
@Zeb,
Do you mean sound from the computer (eg. clicks and presentation slide sound effects), or do you mean voice of the presenter and participants?
Having recorded the voice of the presenter and participants would be really great.
Good work! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Regards, Your Reader
@ Your Reader,
Sure. You’re very welcome to blog about Mikogo and its features. In fact we like seeing such blog posts and hearing everyone’s feedback. To help you out, we have supplied several screenshots and Mikogo logos/banners on our blog. You can find them at the top of this page, under the title “Mikogo Blog”.
Looking forward to seeing your blog post on Mikogo
Cheers.
I too am interested in knowing if both pc sounds and audio from mic will be supported in the future?
Thanks for such a great program. Audio would add the final touch to it.
Is there a time limit of 15 minutes? I think I saw a popup with a message to that effect.
@ Bonnie,
There is no time limit. You can hold Mikogo meetings for as long as you like, and as often as you like.
I think you saw the “15:00 time left for first participant to join” in the Mikogo Meeting Info window.
Here is a screenshot of the Mikogo Meeting Info window:
http://www.mikogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/mikogo-meeting-info.jpg
Please note, that it says “for the first participant to join”. Once your first participant has joined the meeting, you can continue your meeting for as long as you like.
this is a great Software and works fine.. can some one please let me know how to record Audio from Mic and video together ? it seems that the playback does not have any audio with it ?
I just ran across this great software. I realize you can playback the recording with the player, but is there a way to convert this format to something like an avi so it can be played back easily on most computers without the player?
@ Eric, the meetings are recorded and saved in a proprietary format, and converting them to avi (for example) is not available.
The Mikogo Meeting Player can be used to play back the recordings, and it is a free download available for anybody, including your meeting participants (even if they don’t have a Mikogo account)
How come no audio with recordings
@Geo
Mikogo is a desktop sharing tool that allows you to share your screen for remote support, web conferencing, online meetings etc. The recording function will therefore record the screen actions.
Brilliant piece of software, desktop sharing and recording – all for free, I don’t know how you do it but I like it. Thanks.
The audio recording of participants will be really great!