1. A method of distributing video images by a central distributor in a video conference, said conference having a plurality of participants, the method comprising: at one particular video-conference participant's video-conference device that houses a central focus distributor for distributing video images to a plurality of non-focus video conference devices of a plurality of other participants during the video conference: receiving directly video images from each of the other plurality of participants through the non-focus video conference device of each of the other participants; generating composite images from (i) the received video images and (ii) video images captured locally with the device that houses the central focus distributor; and transmitting said composite images directly to each of the plurality of the other participants' non-focus video-conference devices.