Five Great Applications That Record Video Conferences

When video conferencing with a client, many people find themselves frantically scribbling notes or continuously snapping screen-shots to keep a record of their online meeting. There is a much simpler solution: online video conference recording. Here is a list of the top five services that either record video conferences, or have it integrated into their full service webcasting software:

InstantPresenter
You don’t need to use an external tool to record with InstantPresenter as they have a record function already integrated into the interface. With the InstantPresenter recorder you can capture just about everything that happens in a typical video conference session from audio and video to chats, notes and annotation. Once recorded, it is available instantly for playback from the InstantPresenter servers, with no set-up headaches or other services required.

Sightspeed
Widely regarded as a great soft-phone and more than just a Skype equivalent, Sightspeed for business is a video conferencing product that is different in that it isn’t based on the meeting room model. Like InstantPresenter, no third party software is needed for recording your webcast as it is integrated into the application.

ooVoo
This video conferencing and chat application comes with free video recording as a standard feature. Recorded video can be saved as AVI, or FLV with HTML tags that can be embedded into a webpage. ooVoo allows up to 1000 minutes of video storage on their servers.

PalBee
This is one of the next generation online browser-based conferencing services, which lists recording as a feature. Getting a meeting setup is very simple and you don’t need to download or install additional software, just create a meeting room and invite up to 5 of your friends.

Video Conference Recorder
Virtual Desk are the developers of this Windows-only video conference recorder, which does exactly as its name implies: record conferences. This application can record an area or a window, so you have some degree of control over what to record. Video is saved as an AVI at an average of 1MB per minute, which means it can be played back easily later.