LifeSize User Manual page 24

LifeSize systems that support multiway video calls can show video from a maximum of four
callers: three far end participants and the near end participant. During a multiway video call,
if you choose a screen layout that assigns video from a far end participant to the largest
window in the screen layout, video from the far end participant who is currently speaking
appears in the largest window. Near end video does not change location when a participant
at the near end (your site) is the current speaker.
If you choose a screen layout that shows all video images the same size, only the dominant
speaker icon moves to indicate which participant is currently speaking.
If your LifeSize system supports more than four video participants in a call, by default the
video image from a fifth or sixth far end participant appears in the display only when that
participant becomes the current speaker and replaces the video image of the earliest of the
last three far end speakers. If an administrator has configured the system to show video only
from the last speaker in the call, then only the video image from the participant who is
currently speaking appears in the display. If a participant at your site is currently speaking,
video from the last speaker appears in your display.
Changing the Screen Layout of Video Images
To change the screen layout, do the following:
• Black Remote Control:
Press the screen layout
• Silver Remote Control:
Press the call
If you are using the silver remote control, you must be controlling the near camera to
select a new screen layout. By default, the near camera is selected during a call. An
orange camera icon
selected.
The number of the selected screen layout (x) and the total number of screen layouts that are
available (y) appear in the center of the screen above the status bar as x/y. The total number
of screen layouts that are available depends on the number of connected callers, whether a
single display or a dual display is used, and whether or not a presentation is being viewed.
Continue to press the screen layout button to show all available screen layouts. You can
change screen layouts with single and dual monitor configurations and while sending or
receiving presentations. Refer to "Initiating a Presentation" on page 29 for more information
about presentations.
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