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5. Panopto for Mac LIve Webcast

Panopto has the ability to webcast all recordings live over your network or the Internet. If you are not familiar with Panopto for Mac, check out our Panopto for Mac Basic Recording documentation first!

How to Live Webcast

From Panopto for Mac, be sure to select an online folder, then check “Webcast”.

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Record and Stop

To start the broadcast simply click the RECORD button. To end the live broadcast, simply click the  STOP button. Your recording will then complete and upload to the server.

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Viewing

A viewer URL is generated after your webcast starts. This URL can shared through the web user interface by clicking “Share”. Clicking “Copy” will copy the URL to your clipboard.

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Users may login to the Panopto website to view any live broadcasts that may be available at that time.

To do this, simply go to your Panopto server’s website, and click the live session that you would like to watch.  If access to the content is restricted to certain viewers, they will have to login with their credentials.

You can determine which sessions are broadcasting live because the icon will look like the following:

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The viewer can click on the session and a viewer window will open just as it would if the lecture had been previously recorded.

Pause, rewind and go live feature

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Buttons for pausing and rewinding are pictured above on the left. You can easily seek through a live broadcast to any time by dragging the slider circled above, even if you join late. To catch up and watch the broadcast live, just click the “LIVE” button as seen above. You may also continue to watch the live broadcast even after it has ended.

Questions, Comments, and Notes

During the live broadcast, viewers who are logged in and viewing the live broadcast can ask questions and make comments via the viewer window. The questions and comments have been merged into a “Discussion” section in the viewer. Furthermore, viewers can also take public or private notes during the broadcast to refer back to at a later time. Questions, comments, and notes are stored by the server for review at a later time, even after the broadcast has ended.

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You can also turn off discussions for any or all webcasts and recordings by going to the Panopto web administration pages under System> Settings and changing the Discussion Enabled setting to False.

09. Embedded Playlist Widget

InformationAn embedded folder playlist can be used by any iframe supporting website to provide transparent video management.

This widget provides an easy means of publishing content to your site along with additional features for searching, launching and creating content.

Creating the Widget

  1. Click on “All Folders” in the left-hand column.

  • Click “Settings” below the folder.
  • Click “Embed” on the left-hand column.
  • Copy the entire HTML Embed Code.
  • Insert the HTML Embed Code into your webpage source.

Embedded Playlist Example:

Once the embedded code is added, the playlist folder view widget will be available for display within your site.  Please note that proper credentials to access the Panopto content will be required.

 

08. Sharing with Multiple Users

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To share with with multiple Panopto users

 

From the Share Page – select one of the following options:

1. Under Invite people, either type or copy/paste a comma separate list and click ‘Send and save changes’ (Syntax for the below was ” dhannan, abixhorn, tsullivan”)

2. Anyone at your organization with the link:  Choosing this option will enable viewing access for anyone who can log into your Panopto site. This will unlist the session from all other videos on your site. Unlisted means that the session won’t be discoverable by anyone browsing the site. It can only be accessed by having the direct link.

3. Anyone at your organization:  Choosing this option will enable viewing access for anyone who can log into your Panopto site.

4.Create an invite e–mail for individual users: – Under the Panopto Share settings for the session – find “Invite People” Enter the e-mail address of selected recipients.  These users will receive an invite e-mail with the link to your video

For sharing with users outside your organization, please click here.

 

8. Upload Support Matrix

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Upload Support Matrix

ASF (Advanced Systems Format)

Other Names: WMV, WMA
Accepted File Extensions: .wmv, .asf, .wma
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
VC1/WMV3 Yes Yes
WMV2 Yes Yes
WMV1 Yes Yes
Windows Media Screen Codec 1 Yes Yes
Windows Media Screen Codec 2 Yes Yes
GoToMeeting(v1, v2, and v3) With side installation of GTM Codec Pack Yes
H.264 With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.263/MPEG-4 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.262/MPEG-2 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.261/MPEG-1 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
MJPEG Yes Yes
Techsmith 1 Yes With side install of Codec

Accepted Audio Codecs

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
WMA1 Yes Yes
WMA2 Yes Yes
WMA3 aka WMA9 Yes Yes
WMA9 Pro Yes Yes
WMA9 Voice Yes Yes
WMA10 Voice Yes Yes
MP3 Yes Yes
AAC* With side installation of ffdshow Yes
PCM Yes Yes
WAV Yes Yes
AC3 With side installation of ffdshow Yes

FLV Flash Video v1

Accepted File Extensions: .flv
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
Spark (aka Sorenson 3, and FLV1) With side installation of ffdshow, and FLV Splitter Yes
VP6 With side installation of ffdshow, and FLV Splitter Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
MP3 With side installation of FLV Splitter Yes
PCM* With side installation of FLV Splitter Yes
AAC* With side installation of ffdshow, and FLV Splitter Yes

FLV Flash Video v2 (aka F4V)

Other Names: Flash MP4
Accepted File Extensions: .f4v, .f4a
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
H.264 Yes Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
AAC* Yes Yes

AVI

Other Names: Audio Video Interlaced format
Accepted File Extensions: .avi
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
DV formats* Yes Yes
Spark (aka Sorenson 3, and FLV1) With side installation of ffdshow Yes
GoToMeeting(v1, v2, and v3) With side installation of GTM Codec Pack Yes
H.264 With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.263/MPEG-4 With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.262/MPEG-2 With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.261/MPEG-1 With side installation of ffdshow Yes
Techsmith 1 With side installation of Codec Yes
MJPEG Yes Yes
VP6 With side installation of ffdshow Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
MP3 Yes Yes
AAC* With side installation of ffdshow Yes
PCM Yes Yes
WAV Yes Yes
AC3 With side installation of ffdshow Yes

MP3

Other Names: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
Accepted File Extensions: .mp3
Accepted Video Codecs:
Not Applicable
Accepted Audio Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
MP3 Yes Yes

MPEG-2 PS/MPEG1

Other Names: MPEG-2 Program Stream
Accepted File Extensions: .mpg, .mpeg, .mps, .ps, .mp2, .m2v, .m2a
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
H.264*** With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.263/MPEG-4 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.262/MPEG-2 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.261/MPEG-1 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
MJPEG Yes Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
WMA1 Yes Yes
WMA2 Yes Yes
WMA3 aka WMA9 Yes Yes
WMA9 Pro Yes Yes
WMA9 Voice Yes Yes
WMA10 Voice Yes Yes
MP3 Yes Yes
AAC* With side installation of ffdshow Yes
PCM* Yes Yes
WAV Yes Yes
AC3 With side installation of ffdshow Yes

MPEG-2 TS

Other Names: MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Accepted File Extensions: .ts, .tsv, .tsa, .mts, .m2ts, .mpg, .mpeg, .mod, .tod
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
H.264*** With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.263/MPEG-4 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.262/MPEG-2 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
H.261/MPEG-1 Video With side installation of ffdshow Yes
MJPEG Yes Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
MP3 Yes Yes
AAC* With side installation of ffdshow Yes
PCM* Yes Yes
WAV Yes Yes
AC3 With side installation of ffdshow Yes

MP4

Accepted File Extensions: .mp4, .m4a, .m4v, .3gp
Accepted Video Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
H.264** Yes Yes
H.263/MPEG-4 Video Yes Yes

Accepted Audio Codecs:

Codec Deployed Support Hosted Support
AAC* Yes Yes
MP3 Yes Yes

**The MP4/MOV H.264 decoder is limited to 1080p.

 

07. Viewing Requirements

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Panopto requires industry-standard PC hardware components.

 

Please treat the following configurations as the recommended baseline system configurations. Consult your Panopto representative for specific hardware requirements for your organizations needs.

Operating Systems                                                                                                
         Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8.X
         Apple Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based)   (PPC-based NOT supported)

iOS 6+
Processor 1.8 GHz or higher
Memory 512MB
Network Bandwidth 50 Kbps for audio only presentations. 300 Kbps for presentations with one video stream, audio, PowerPoint and screen capture. 500 Kbps for presentations with multiple video streams.
Applications Adobe Flash Player & Microsoft Silverlight 2.0+ for Legacy content
Supported Browsers Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

*Flash is required to view embedded videos on a PC or Mac. Click here to see an example of an embed

** Flash is required to view and produce statistical and analytic graphs.

 

06. The Viewer

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Overview of the Viewer layout.

The Viewer Layout

There are 7 sections of the viewer labeled above.

  1. The information bar which shows you the name and data of the session as well as the folder the session belongs to. The help dropdown and sign out button are also found in the information bar.
  2. The primary video and/or audio stream
  3. Search
  4. Contents, Captions, Notes, Bookmarks and Comments
  5. Screen capture, powerpoint or any secondary video
  6. The player
  7. Timestamped thumbnails for navigation

Search

Search allows you to find keywords that are timestamped to allow for navigation. Virtually all text you see or hear is searchable in Panopto 4.6! Just type the word you wish to find in the search bar and checkout your results!

You can see that the word “web” was found in my bookmarks, notes, and the content of the powerpoint presentation. If you want to drill down your search results, click the “Search all” dropdown menu.

I am now only searching my notes. If you want to change the sort from relevance to by time click the “Sort” dropdown.

Contents, Captions, Notes, Bookmarks and Comments

Contents – This section of the viewer will allow you to view and seek to any text in a powerpoint slide. Click or search for any text in a powerpoint and you will be taking to the point in the recording where its mentioned!

Captions – This section will only appear if the creator of the session chose to caption the recording. For more information on captioning see our documentation!

Notes – You can take notes while viewing a session to refresh your memory later! Additionally, any note you take will become searchable! Click here for a more indepth look at notes.

Bookmarks – Bookmarks allow you to save a particular spot in a recording to revisit at a later time. Bookmarks will also show up in your search results. See our Bookmarks documentation for more information.

Comments – You can leave a public comment on a session for others to see! Check out more information aboutComments.

Functions of the player

The Panopto player let’s you seek throw your Recording as well as allowing you to control what you see.  The player has 8 actions that allow you to control how you view the recording.

The first is the play/pause button, clicking this will pause or play the recording. You can also click any stream and it will pause or play the recording!

The second is the volume bar which controls the level the audio is outputted. Click on the speaker to bring up the slider.

Next is the skip back button. This button will rewind 10 seconds and play from there. This is useful when you miss something!

The next part of the player is the progress bar. This lets you know where you are at viewing the recording. You can drag the indicator to quickly seek to a specific point in the recording.

The gear icon next to the progress bar will allow you to choose your streaming quality. Your download speed will also show on this bar.

Next you will see the stream picker. If your viewing a session with multiple streams, you can pick which one you see!

The last part of the player allows you to hide the thumbnails and increase the size of whichever stream you have selected. Once hidden you can click it again to show the thumbnails!

Lastly you can maximize either stream by hovering over it and clicking the expand button. Once in Full Screen mode you can click the “esc” key or click the link to return to the normal viewer.

Shortcut Keys

The new viewer allows you to use shortcut keys to control the player!

Spacebar – Pause/Play the session

Left/Right arrow keys – skip 5 seconds backwards or forwards

Up/Down arrow keys – adjust volume up or down

The M key – mutes and unmutes the recording

How to navigate through a recording

You can navigate through a recording in several different ways!

The first is by using the progress bar as we shown you previously. You can also use the left and right arrow key to achieve the same function!

Next is by click the thumbnails below the player. These are timestamped and will start you where the creator began discussing the slide.

Lastly, by clicking on any timestamped caption, content, note or bookmark you will be taking to the part of the recording that is relevant!

Still have questions? Check out our other additional viewing documentation.

 

05. Taking Notes

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How to Take Notes

 

Depending on the streams being captured the notes field will be on the left of the screen or under the primary video window.

This is an example of a single video source recording. Note that a link to the notes is on the left hand side.

Click on the “Notes” link shown below. This expands the notes area to the right.

To start entering notes click in the field outlined below and start typing.

The second you begin to type is the second that will be time stamped in the viewer.

When you hit ENTER/RETURN the note will be submitted to the field above where you are typing.

To edit or delete a submitted note click on the note you wish to change and either click edit or delete. (Shown Below)

Editing the note will bring the submitted note back into the initial field and allow you to change the submitted note.

Editing a note will not change the initially time stamp of the note.

Deleting the note will remove it entirely from all fields.  Be aware that hitting delete once will remove the note.

Private Notes

By default, notes under your username will be private notes.  This means no one else can see your notes.

To verify your notes are private, you will see a link that says make public. (Shown in the red box below)

Public Notes

To make your notes public, simply click on the link make public (Shown Above).

The link will change to say make private. To make your notes private, simply click on the link a second time.

Notes taken with the link shown as make private will become public when the link is clicked for make public.

Channels

In Panopto we allow users to take notes in channels.  This is useful if you want to collaborate your notes with a group.

Anyone with the channel name can add or view notes under that name.

To select or create a channel click on the drop down menu shown below.

Click on the “Enter a channel…” option and type the name of the channel you wish.

Share the channel name with anyone you wish to share notes with and start collaborating!

Live Notes

With Panopto you can take notes while the session is being recorded!

To do this go into your Panopto WebUI and find the session that is currently being recorded.

Highlight the session that you wish to take notes for and the Takes Notes option will appear below the session name.

A new window will pop up where you can begin to take notes.

All notes you take will be time stamped and aligned with the recorded session for later use.

 

04. Social Features

InformationThe features described in this article require Panopto 4.3 or newer.

 

Panopto 4.3 introduced new Social Features that are compatible with all of your available recordings. These new features include ratings, bookmarks, and comments.

 

Ratings

After logging in to your Panopto site and looking at available sessions, you will see a new tab entitled “Rating.” The Rating option is visible in both the Thumbnail and List view options.

By default, new sessions will not have an associated rating.

Thumbnail view shown below:

List View shown below:

To rate a session, first you need to select and view a desired recording. On the viewing screen, look at the top information bar for the rating gauge.

Click your desired rating on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. This will tally your choice with the other ratings. Please note that you can hover your mouse cursor over the stars to see the current overall rating.

If you return to your sessions view, you can see the new average rating,  By hovering over the rating you will be able to see the amount of ratings as well.

Also, please note that you can sort your session view by rating.

Bookmarks

You can bookmark specific times in a recording that you want to return to. Upon logging in, you will see a tab on the left side for marked content.

To start, click on a session you’d like to bookmark. This will take you to the normal viewing layout.

Underneath the primary video/audio, you will now notice a link that says Bookmarks. Click on the button to begin.

Once you click the bookmark button you will be prompted to label your bookmark at the time of entry as seen below. Enter a note in the text box, and hit enter. This will save your bookmark.

Note that our bookmark correlates to the current playback time. Clicking on the “1:19” area as seen above will move the session playback to this time. Now, click on “See all my bookmarks”

You will now see that your session will show up in the “Bookmarked” area of the Webui.

Click on one of the bookmarks you created. This will launch the session as normal, and resume playback at the allotted time. You can remove a bookmark by clicking the X in the viewing tab as seen below.

As a final note, you can send these marked viewing URL’s to other viewers. Just copy and paste the URL generated by your bookmark link.

Comments

Comments add the option to leave feedback or general commentary that is publicly viewable. To start, choose a session you’d like to comment on. Navigate over to the comments tab on the left hand side of the viewer.. Note that you may have to use the highlighted arrows to navigate the metadata area to reach “Comments.”

Like other content, simply type into the field below and hit enter.

You will see the timestamp of when the comment was made, along with the associated username.

Remember, these comments are public and can be seen by anyone that can view the session normally

**Important note: submitting a comment is only available to logged in users**