Kaltura and streaming video
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Uploading an Unlisted Video to YouTube
To upload videos longer than 15 minutes, you must verify your Google account. To do this: On a computer, go to https://www.youtube.com/verify. Sign in to your Google account if you’re not already signed in. Choose whether you want to receive your verification code by text or voice message, then enter your phone number. Enter the code that was sent to you by text or voice message. Verified? Great! Now it’s time to upload: Navigate to the YouTube home page and select the camera icon in the top right screen. From the resulting dropdown menu, select “upload video.” 2. Login to YouTube using a Google account. 3. Once logged in, select…
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Using Video in Microsoft Teams
Teams video is a viable option for online classes, meetings, webinars, and interviews with a little advanced configuration. First you will need to create a Team, unless you intend to use an existing Team. Then, you can schedule the meeting. Part I: Create a Team and Schedule a Meeting Start with a Team – you must either use an existing Team, or create a new one.To create a new Team: within the O365 Teams app, choose “Join or Create team,” then “Create Team.” Generally, the “Staff” team type is fine. Name your Team and designate privacy settings – if possible, choose Public so that others at Trinity can find you.…
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Introducing Kaltura Capture
Kaltura streaming video has replaced its lightweight screencast tool, CaptureSpace, with a new tool called Kaltura Capture. The new tool provides many of the same functions as CaptureSpace, but is more streamlined and easy to use. Use the Kaltura Capture tool to create on-the-fly screencasts and presentations. Once uploaded to the “My Media” library, you can use the editor to trim and do other minor edits. Your video can then be shared with a course, with colleagues, or posted anywhere. See this documentation page or contact your instructional technologist for more information.
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Using Kaltura to Stream Movies on Recent Versions of macOS and iOS
Kaltura is the tool Trinity College uses to deliver streaming video for classes, and in general it is working pretty well on various browsers and operating systems. However, many people who access Kaltura on an up-to-date iOS or macOS device are greeted with a puzzling error: “It seems your browser is blocking 3rd party session cookies which are required for the Kaltura application. To resolve this issue, please update your settings to allow 3rd party cookies.” This is happening because in recent updates Apple have changed a default preference, turning on a new feature called “Prevent Cross-Site Tracking.” This breaks Kaltura, which needs to be able to set a cookie…
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Kaltura: Ordering and Editing Captions
This post describes how to request, edit and download closed captions and a transcript file from Kaltura, whether you are working in Moodle or in Mediaspace (https://trincoll.mediaspace.kaltura.com). Closed captions are machine generated and are typically 70 – 85% accurate, however, the results greatly depend on the clarity and enunciation of the speaker. Turnaround time once captions are requested is typically less than the length of the original media. There is also a built-in caption editor you can use for improving the accuracy of the captions. If you have not already uploaded Media for captioning, upload your media to “My Media.” In Moodle, this is right under the Dashboard: If you…