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Web Player Tabs

The web player is tabbed to provide options for interacting with the recording that is currently playing. 

 

When the player windowpane is expanded, only a single tab will be shown. 

 

 

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Resize the playback pane to see a second tab.

 

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About

 

The About tab gives some general information about the recording.

 

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This tab displays Channel and Description information from the Program Guide, and provides the following options:

 

Download: save a copy of the recording to your desktop.
Share Clip: email a link to the clip, using SnapStream cloud sharing. (Clips only)
More Information: view the Recording Details page.
Link to Show: get a shareable link for playing back the show. Note: this link will only work for users who have access to the web interface on your SnapStream system.

 

If the recording is in progress, click Stop Recording to end the recording now, or Extend Recording to change the end time of the recording. (Not shown)

 

To execute tasks on this recording, click More Actions.

 

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Share Clip (clips only): Sends an e-mail to the addresses you specify with links to play back the specified clips. See Share Clips for more information.
ShowSqueeze: Submits all checked recordings for transcoding in a batch. See ShowSqueeze Selected Shows for more information on this option.  
SmartChapter: Submits all checked recordings for SmartChapter generation.  See SmartChapter Selected Shows for more information on this option.
Run Workflow: Executes the Workflow of your choice on this recording. See Workflows for more information.
Export: Copies the recording to the Export folder of your choice. See Folders for more information.
Add to Playlist: Adds this recording to a Playlist.
Add Segment to Playlist: Adds only the selected segment (defined by the clip endpoints) to a Playlist.
Upload to YouTube (clips only): Uploads a copy of the recording to YouTube under your account. See Upload to YouTube for more inofrmation.

 

 

The Tags box shows any tags that have been added to this recording. Enter a word to add a tag. Tags entered in this way will be added to the search index.

 

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Tags that appear in blue are time-coded to a point in the recording. To add a time-coded tag, right-click in the playback bar or click the Tag (clip0060) button.

 

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Then click on Add Tag Here and enter the text of your tag.

 

The tag will now appear in the playback bar.

 

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Transcript

 

Displays the closed captioning transcript.

 

 

 

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By default, the closed-captioning display here will automatically scroll in sync with video playback. The current line of closed-captioning data will be highlighted in blue. To toggle automatic scrolling, click the button marked Auto Scroll On (or Off).

 

Use the Search option to find words within the current recording.

 

 

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Use the arrows to skip from one search result to the next. You can navigate through the recording by clicking on the words in the transcript.

 

 

Tweets

 

 

The Tweets tab shows a feed from Twitter of posts related to the show that is currently airing. Note: this tab will not appear if the current time is more than 2 hours after the end of the recording.

 

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This tab shows Tweets about the current show. You can filter tweets by number of followers, and toggle whether to show retweets or not.

 

By default, the Tweets list will automatically scroll to show the most recent tweets. Toggle Auto Scroll Tweets to turn this off.

 

Clicking on the time of a Tweet or the word Snap will start playback at the time that the Tweet was sent
Clicking on a user's handle or a hashtag (#) will open Twitter in a new browser tab
The Reply, Retweet and Favorite buttons perform  those actions within the SnapStream interface

 

 



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