But it still leaves the blank rectangle up where my video would be, if I were showing video. I was acting as technical facilitator and didn't want to be on video, so I turned my camera option off in Webex. What's happening there? Well, the webinar options were set to allow webcam video. And the first thing you see is our PowerPoint title slide with an inexplicable rectangle in the upper right corner with "PE" in a circle:
Item 2: Press the play button and you are rewarded with the actual content that was recorded. They don't even think to press play… All they see is a big, bold message saying there is no content. I regularly receive emails from viewers telling me that something is wrong and the recording is empty. This creates confusion at best, and panic at worst. It's a special gift to viewers of the recording, and it sits there until they happen to click the play arrow at the bottom of the viewing window. Content was being shared at the time I hit the "record" button. Now that statement happens to be a flat-out lie. Click on the link and this is the first thing you see:
I am just using it to point out several specifics in how Webex ensures that recordings are useless for professional business use. If you would be so kind, please watch the first 30 seconds of this recording made during a webinar running on the Webex Events platform.