Make sure to have a few practice runs with friends first. One thing that seems to work in an emergency is to size the green box smaller at the bottom, click the start triangle, and then size the green box down again.

It takes practice and patience, because sometimes it doesn’t work.

Or you can move your cursor into the green box and try to click the start triangle. With Quicktime, I found out that I could click the Quicktime icon at the bottom of my monitor in order to bring that process to being active, then click the spacebar to start the movie.You can hold the top thicker green bar of the share box to drag it around, and size it using the thinner sides and bottom, and also the bottom two corners.Check “Share computer sound” and “Optimize Screen Share for video clip” at the bottom of the window.Choose “Advanced” which is the middle tab at the top of the window.Hit the big green Share button in the control ribbon.This article has lots of details on sharing sound, etc. This results in far fewer pixels being transferred, than using full screen. The size doesn’t need to be exact, but approximately 850×480 looks good. In order to have a movie run as smoothly as possible on viewers screens, reduce the size of the movie, and send only a portion of your screen. I need an adapter like this for my Macbook Pro. Thanks!įirst and foremost, plug directly into your router with an Ethernet cable, rather than using wifi. Please let me know if you have any comments or advice to add.

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