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Introduction to Kaltura MediaSpace:
Kaltura is an online video platform that allows publishers and content owners to publish and manage their video and other rich-media content.
You can log into your MediaSpace account at mediaspace.minnstate.edu
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Features:
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Video Upload and Ingestion - Easily upload and ingest video, audio, images and docs. Bulk or individual file uploads, via browser, desktop app, email or mobile.
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Video Publishing - Publish the best quality video across any device - mobile, PC or set-top-box. Broadcast live videos.
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Video Streaming - Stream the best quality video, with full security and control.
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Video Management - Organize your content, search media, edit, moderate, create playlists, and much more - all in one intuitive interface.
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Video Editing Tools - Trim videos to create clips, add subtitles, and cue points to enable chaptering, advertising and deep search
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If you save your Zoom recordings to the cloud AND you have logged into MediaSpace to provision your account, when you are finished recording your video in Zoom, a copy of the recording will automatically be sent to MediaSpace. (This makes it easier to distribute in D2L, see Link to your MediaSpace Video.)
Editing Videos
Make simple edits to your Kaltura Media Space videos right in Media Space. This applies to videos you upload, directly record in Media Space, or that are added automatically when you record a Zoom meeting to the cloud.
Getting to the editing tool
- Log in to MediaSpace
- To the right of your video, select Edit which appears as a pencil icon.
- Upon loading, to the right of the video, there will be a blue(ish) button, Launch Editor.
This will be the edit screen for the tools that will be discussed below.
Saving Edits
What is important to note here, is that you have Save and Save a Copy.
- Save will overwrite the original video. (Use this option when cutting the ends off a class. There would be no reason to keep a full copy of the course lecture with blank/silent beginnings or endings.)
- Save a Copy will do as it says, create a copy wherein your edits will be found, preserving the original video. (Use this option when you have a lot of editing to do and parts of the video may or may not need... when keeping the original source is important.)
There is a time and a place for both saves.
Bookending your video
Quick and dirty
Sometimes in your video editing it is clear as day when the video starts and when it should end just based on the sound (which is quickly visible through the sound waves at the bottom of the time line) so you can just grab the Set In or the Set Out handles and adjust those as necessary.
Precision Edit
In the edit window, you will find a timeline below the video. You can play the video, and you will be able to watch your playhead move along the time line. (The playhead is the blue vertical line, perhaps more easily seen below. The playhead represents what place in the timeline where your video is currently at.) When you have found your position where you want to snip the front off, pause the video and, on the top of your playhead, select the Set In icon which looks like a left square bracket.
You can do the same with the ending of your video, except for the ending, you will use the Set Out option. (The closing/right square bracket.)
In either case, whether you use the handles or the precision method, when you are done, make sure to select Save or Save a Copy, as you need.
Cutting out pieces of video (internal cutting)
Using the split tool will allow you to eliminate pieces within the video.
Again, using the video player, you can watch until you find the locations you wish to cut, pause at the location and then use the split tool.
Then find the end of the segment you wish to cut and use the split tool again. This will give you at least three segments to your video (obviously you can cut up the video as many times as you need).
When you are ready to remove a segment from the time line, make sure to select the video segment (the selected video segment will be highlighted in gold trim and have visible handles on both ends), then use the Delete button located above the time line.
Make a smooth transition
Next to the delete button is the Fade In/Out tool.
In the example given, I will delete the center segment but in order to make a smother transition, I can use the fade in/out tool to fade out of the first video segment and then fade in on the second video segment. To do this, I will select the first video segment and then select the Fade In/Out tool, 1 or 2 second fade out is probably long enough.
You will notice a fade in/out icon appear then on the video segment once your select off the video segment.
On the second segment then, I will use the Fade In option, again, 1 or 2 seconds is plenty. Making sure to highlight the second segment, select the Fade In/Out tool and enter the time you wish to fade in.
When you have completed your edits, select Save or Save a copy, as you need.
Stitching videos together
It is possible to link two separate videos you have in MediaSpace into a single video.
From the homepage in MediaSpace, select Add New in the upper right corner, select Stitch Videos.
Create a title for your new video.
From the left side of the page then select the videos by using the add icon found to the right of the video. Each added video will then appear in the right column.
To remove a video that you may have accidentally added, 1) in the left column, simply select the the check mark to remove the video, or 2) in the right column, you can select the ellipsis, and then select Remove from the dropdown menu.
You can reorder the video segments by using the handles on the video segments. The ellipsis to the right of the segment will also allow you to choose top or bottom.
When you have the videos you wish to stitch together and you have them in the right order, select the Create button and MediaSpace will begin to process the new video.
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