Webex .ARF conversion to something editable on Mac

Posted Posted by Wes in Uncategorized     Comments No comments
Jul
14

You can’t import the Webex format directly into iMovie or your editing tool of choice.

I tried downloading the Mac ARF player, which supposedly has options to convert the file to WMV and SWF.

http://www.webex.com/downloadplayer.html

After installing and opening my video in the player, I didn’t have File > Convert options that everyone talks about.

There are lot of tools on the Support / Downloads page for Webex:

http://support.webex.com/support/downloads.html

Maybe the nbr2mp4 utility would work (http://support.webex.com/supportutilities/nbr2mp4.tar):

A Linux-based conversion utility that allows you to convert your Cisco WebEx network-based recording files, which are in WebEx Advanced Recording Format File (.arf), and which were created with WBS 26 or higher to an MPEG-4 (.mp4) format.

It converts in realtime, though, so I didn’t try that path, especially since I’m not sure if all of the linux libraries would be support on Mac.

Since I already had a virtual machine with Windows, I grabbed the ARF viewer for Windows and it had the conversion options.

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