How to Upload a Youtube Video to Voicethread

Panopto, CCA's fully-featured video platform, is hither! See the Panopto page in Portal for more details on its usage. This page mostly discusses other video technologies.

Help on all things videos for instructors at CCA. Don't encounter the answer yous're looking for? Contact the Assistance Desk!

• Creating Videos to Share with Students
  • Using Panopto
  • Using Zoom
  • Using VoiceThread
  • Recording Spaces for Faculty
• Captions
  • Adding automatic captions in Panopto
  • Using YouTube to Automatically Generate Airtight Captions
  • Calculation Captions to Google Slides
  • Calculation Captions to Your Video in VoiceThread
  • Adding a Closed Captions File to Moodle
• Video in Moodle
  • Using Panopto with Moodle
  • Embedding a VoiceThread in Moodle
  • Recording a Curt Video in Moodle
  • Embedding External Videos (YouTube, Vimeo) in Moodle
  • Resizing Video in Moodle
• Video File Size
  • Video Size Restrictions
  • How can I reduce my video's file size?

Zoom is not only a video conferencing tool, information technology can as well make recordings. Essentially, you create an empty meeting, then tape yourself talking while displaying slides and media.

1. Open the Zoom app (if you don't take information technology, download Zoom here)
2. If you're not logged in, you lot will be prompted to (see Signing Back In on the Zoom help page)
3. Select New Meeting to immediately outset an empty meeting with only yourself in it
4. Unmute yourself and Offset Video with the two buttons in the lesser control panel
5. You tin can now apply the Record button to begin recording and there are two options:
   1. Record to the Deject stores the recording on Zoom's servers and creates a transcript automatically, so we recommend this
   2. Record on this Computer saves the file locally on your hard drive, which can be useful if you program to add your ain captions or for very long recordings
6. During recording, use Share Screen to show something other than your spider web cam'due south view
7. When you're done recording, use the square "cease" button or go to Meeting > End Recording in the carte du jour bar. Y'all can also simply Cease the meeting to stop recording.
8. The video will be bachelor later it finishes processing

If you chose to record to the deject, you volition receive an e-mail when the video is fix and a second email when the transcript is ready. You tin can share a link direct to the Zoom website with your students, or download the video to post it somewhere else, similar Moodle or VoiceThread. You accept express (1GB) space on the Zoom deject so we recommend posting the video elsewhere once the automated captions are complete.

If you recorded locally, Zoom will open up the binder containing the video files. In both cases, deject or local, Zoom creates several files for each recording: an mp4 video file, an m4a sound-only file, and a conversation transcript text file if annihilation was written into chat. If y'all press stop during a meeting, so record once more, Zoom creates a series of sets of these files.

Do yous take more than Zoom questions? Visit the Zoom page on the Portal or view our Introduction to Zoom for Faculty video.

1. First, login to VoiceThread by selecting Sign In and inbound your CCA credentials at the familiar login page
2. Select Create to brand a new VoiceThread and so Add Media and select Webcam Video if you want both your photographic camera and audio to record (you could also cull audio-only or take a pic using your camera at this stage)
3. VoiceThread may inquire for permission to apply your microphone and camera, if yous oasis't already given permission
4. After a iv-2nd countdown, recording starts. When you're done, select Finish Recording. Y'all can utilise Record More to add together onto your video
5. Save when you're done and add a championship and description to your thread
6. Y'all can now apply the Share bill of fare to distribute to your students

This is a basic use of VoiceThread—you can add together various media or other video recordings to a thread, so add text, video, or sound comments on top of those. Come across the Creating section of VoiceThread'southward help documentation or the VoiceThread folio on Portal for more than on its capabilities.

Kinesthesia should have received an electronic mail on July 31st entitled "Kinesthesia Campus Admission for Sound/Video Recording and Scheduling Process" which details how spaces for recording videos will be provided on campus. The documentation for access to campus recording spaces is on the COVID-19 page for faculty along with links to the grade to reserve rooms and to contact Media Services about obtaining equipment.

YouTube can be used as a tool to automatically generate closed captions for your video content, such as a lecture or recorded class discussion, even if you lot are going to share the video outside of YouTube, such every bit uploading to Moodle or VoiceThread.

Uploading to YouTube

1. Sign in to YouTube using your CCA account.
2. Click the "Create" icon on the top right (image of a video camera with a plus symbol).
3. Choose "Upload Video."
4. Click "Select files" or drag-and-drop your video to upload.
5. Details carte: While your video upload is processing, the "Details" menu volition open up.
   1. Title your video.
   2. Add a description.
   3. Declare whether or not the video is made for kids (this is required).
   4. Click "Adjacent."
6. Video elements menu: simply click "Adjacent."
7. Visibility menu: YouTube volition automatically generate captions whether the video is individual, unlisted, or public. Cull which option is most appropriate for your intended utilize of the video.
8. Click "Salve."
9. The captions volition not be immediately available. Depending on the size and length of your video file, information technology will have time for YouTube to transcribe your video. You can close your browser and come back afterward.

Editing your captions

Automatically generated captions volition always contain errors: incorrectly transcribed words, inclusions of "um" and "uh," and uncapitalized words that should exist capitalized. If you would similar to edit your captions, follow these steps.

1. To render to the video you lot take uploaded, go to studio.youtube.com.
2. Click the "Videos" icon on the left side navigation bar.
3. Click the thumbnail for the video you desire to edit the captions of.
4. Click the "Subtitles" icon on the left side navigation bar.
5. On the Video Subtitles page, you will see a list with columns for "Language," "Modified on," "Title & clarification," and "Subtitles." If your automatically generated captions are ready, in that location volition be a list described as "English (Automatic)." These are your automatically generated closed captions. If this entry does non announced, YouTube has non finished automatically transcribing your video, and you should return later on.
6. Hover over the entry for "English language (Automated)." Iii vertical dots will appear adjacent to the "Subtitles" column.
7. Click the iii vertical dots and select "Edit on Classic Studio."
8. Click "Edit" on the height right.
9. Edit your captions to your satisfaction. Your video will play back in snippets while yous are editing if you need to relisten to portions of your video to ensure the captions are correct.
10. When you lot are done editing, click "Publish edits" on the meridian right.
11. Return to the Video subtitles menu (see steps 2-5). You should see an boosted language entry: "English", "Published past Creator." This is your edited explanation file.
12. To download the caption file to pair with the video in Moodle or VoiceThread, continue to the "Downloading a captions file from YouTube" instructions beneath. (If you lot are already on the Video subtitles bill of fare, you can skip steps 1-5.)

Downloading a captions file from YouTube

1. To return to the video you lot have uploaded, go to studio.youtube.com.
2. Click the "Videos" icon on the left side navigation bar.
3. Click the thumbnail for the video y'all want to edit the captions of.
4. Click the "Subtitles" icon on the left side navigation bar.
5. On the Video Subtitles folio, yous will see a listing with columns for "Linguistic communication," "Modified on," "Title & clarification," and "Subtitles."
   1. If your automatically generated captions are ready, there will be a listing described as "English (Automatic)." These are your automatically generated closed captions. If this entry does not announced, YouTube has not finished automatically transcribing your video, and you should return later. If yous would like to edit these captions, see the instructions for "Editing your captions" listed higher up, and skip steps 1-v.
   2. If you have edited your automatically generated captions, you will come across an entry listed as "English", "Published by Creator."
6. Hover over the entry for the captions you want to download. Three vertical dots volition appear adjacent to the "Subtitles" cavalcade.
   1. If you lot are going to upload the captions file to VoiceThread, go to step seven.
   2. If yous are going to upload the captions file to Moodle, go to pace 9.
7. VoiceThread: Select "Download." Your captions file will download to your computer in a format accepted by VoiceThread.
8. Here are instructions on how to upload this captions file to VoiceThread.
9. Moodle: Select "Edit on Archetype Studio."
10. In the "Classic Studio," click "Actions" and select ".vtt" listed under Download. This is the only caption file format accepted past Moodle.
11. Nosotros accept farther instructions on how to upload this captions file to Moodle.

Watch this video to see how to add captions to your presentation in Google Slides. Call back that it is OK to use Google Slides during a Zoom call or as part of a recording; while students cannot access the slides, they will be able to access Zoom or your recording.

1. Create your slide presentation and enter Present mode
2. Click on the "CC" closed caption icon
3. Done! Yous can practise this while recording a Zoom and the captions will exist recorded

These instructions use YouTube elementary for the sake of creating the automated captions for your video. You can apply your CCA Google Apps account to access YouTube.

1. Create your video using whatever recording software you lot adopt, for instance using Zoom or using VoiceThread
2. Use the steps we've described to retrieve your captions from YouTube
3. Create a VoiceThread with your media
4. In the upper right corner, locate the Airtight Captioning (CC) icon.
5. Click on the push button and choose "Add together captions."
6. Select your caption file. VoiceThread accepts caption files in these formats: DFXP, SRT, SAMI, SCC, and SBV.

Combining a few techniques described elsewhere on this page, we tin can create a video, upload it to YouTube to create and refine its captions, and so download and re-upload to Moodle to share with students. The primal thing to remember is to download the VTT captions format from YouTube, as that is the only one which Moodle accepts.

1. Use the "Insert or edit an audio/media file" push button in a rich text editor box. (here are more detailed instructions on uploading videos to Moodle)
2. Subsequently uploading the video file, open the "Subtitles and Captions" menu.
3. Click the "Captions" tab in the carte.
4. Click "Browse Repositories" to upload your airtight captions file. Note: Moodle will only accept captions in the .vtt file format. Please see our "Downloading a captions file from YouTube" instructions for how to obtain the .vtt file.
5. Later uploading the .vtt file, click "Insert Media."
6. Your video, with its attached caption file, should now be bachelor in the rich text editor.
7. Brand sure to click "Save and Render to Course" or "Save and Brandish."
8. Students viewing the embedded video will be able to toggle the captions on or off.

There are a few ways to add videos to Moodle, each with its ain advantages and disadvantages. Moodle supports virtually every major video format (.mov, .mp4, .m4v, .ogv, .webm). There is a 250 MB limit on file size and uploads will progress quite slowly. We recommend that you lot host big video files elsewhere, if viable.

Moodle'due south official video documentation may help answering some questions not covered here.

VoiceThread tin be embedded directly into Moodle. A VoiceThread embedded in Moodle is interactive: participants can add comments or collaborate with the VoiceThread without having to leave Moodle or signing in elsewhere. Follow these instructions to embed a VoiceThread into your Moodle grade.

1. Click on the Share button for the VoiceThread you desire to embed in Moodle.
2. Select "Bones" on the tabbed Share carte.
3. Cull "Embed" from the left side menu.
4. Click the big blue "Copy Embed Code" push. Y'all should see a green popup message that says "Copied to Clipboard."
5. Log onto your Moodle course.
6. Decide where you want to embed your VoiceThread. Y'all can embed your VoiceThread within virtually any blazon of activeness or resource.
   1. If you want to embed your VoiceThread inside an existing activity or resource, select "Edit Settings" for the chosen action or resource.
   2. If you want to embed your VoiceThread in a new activity or resource, click "Add an activity or resource" and make a selection, such as "Assignment," "Forum," or "Page."
   3. If yous want to embed your VoiceThread on the primary form page, click "Add together an activeness or resource" under the appropriate department and choose "Label" (under Resource).
7. In the rich text editor, click the HTML toggle push button (</> symbol). Notation: There volition be existing text (<p><br></p>) that yous can ignore.
8. Paste in the embed code you lot copied on VoiceThread.
9. Click the HTML toggle push button. Yous should now see the VoiceThread in the rich text editor. You tin can add together text or other media above or below the VoiceThread.
10. When yous are done adding additional information or changing settings, make certain to click "Save and Return to Grade" or "Save and Display."

Yous can tape your own video directly into a Moodle rich text area. If you select the Record Video button in the rich text editor, requite Moodle permission to use your computer'due south spider web camera and microphone, you lot can record up to two minutes of video. You are given a chance to review the video earlier "attaching" information technology to the text surface area.

Recording straight in Moodle is applied for quick comments or feedback—for example, you could direct students to tape a short introduction in a forum—but it is very limited in that you will not exist able to record your screen, merely your confront. If you want to record video longer than 2 minutes or utilize your screen, look into using Zoom, Panopto, or VoiceThread.

Remember that YouTube & Vimeo are not accessible in China and then should be avoided if possible.

If you simply paste a link to a YouTube or Vimeo video into Moodle's text editor, it is automatically converted into an embedded video player. It's incredibly piece of cake and quick only does not requite you any control over the appearance of the embedded player. Too, note that this happens automatically and cannot be hands controlled, and then any time you lot link to a YouTube or Vimeo video it volition magically plow into an embedded video player whether you want that or not.

A 2nd option, which works non simply for major platforms like YouTube but whatsoever video host which provides an embed code, is to insert the embed code into the HTML source code of a text area. To exercise so, copy the embed lawmaking to your clipboard, edit the text area in Moodle, utilise the HTML button (it's icon is "</>"). Paste the lawmaking into the HTML at the desired signal; you may need to read through the HTML to determine where that is. The advantage of this arroyo is that you can use whatever features YouTube, Vimeo, or another video player affords you—for case, Vimeo lets yous autoplay or loop an embedded video. You can as well resize a video via its embed code, every bit described in the next department.

In general, it is not valuable to spend much time resizing video content. Remember that, while you lot might create and view your content exclusively on a laptop or desktop computer, your students view things on a variety of devices, including tablets and smartphones with small screens. There is no guarantee that videos are presented the way you painstakingly format them. Instead, focus on video content that is device agnostic and viewable at any size.

For video files:

1. Add your video to a text area by select the "Insert or edit an audio/video file" push in the rich text editor (it'south icon is a video camera on a page)
2. Select the Video tab, then the grey Scan Repositories push
3. You tin can Upload a file or locate a file in another repository (your contempo files, Google Drive), then Select this file on the next dialog page
4. Once your video is uploaded and selected, notation the complanate Display options settings: expand these to specify the video's dimensions in the two inputs labelled Size
5. When done, Insert Media to embed the video in the text area. You tin can ever return to these settings by selecting the video inside the text surface area and using the "audio/video" push button again

For linked video files:

1. Is your video file hosted exterior Moodle? You can select the video camera icon ("Insert or edit an audio/video file" button in the rich text editor) to add together a video as "Link" to a common video format, like .mp4 or .mov
2. At the end of the video's URLs, specify the display dimensions past appending a question mark, then the letter "d", and then an equals sign "=", followed past the numeric width in pixels, a lower case "ten", and finally the height in pixels:
   1. For instance, a URL catastrophe in movie.mp4?d=720x480 would embed the "moving-picture show.mp4" file in a box 720 pixels broad and 480 pixels alpine
   2. Notation that you tin warp the aspect ratio of your video by specifying dimensions that practice non align with the original ones; use an aspect ratio calculator to ensure that the ratio between width and superlative of your resized video is retained

For videos added as File resources:

Videos added as File resources cannot be resized. These videos either download or open in a new window, depending on several factors such equally the device and web browser being used. If you choose to add a video past selecting Add an activeness or resource and choosing File from the list of options, y'all are ceding all control over how that video is displayed. We do not recommend adding videos as File resources.

For embedded videos (eastward.g. from Vimeo, YouTube, or similar):

A URL from Vimeo or YouTube pasted into one of Moodle's text areas will turn automatically into an embedded video role player. There is no way to alter the dimensions of these automatically created embedded videos, merely there is an culling, more than complex method of embedding videos from tertiary-party services that provide embed codes.

1. Find the HTML "embed lawmaking" for the externally hosted video, for case as part of a Share menu:
   1. YouTube shows the code under Share > Embed
   2. Vimeo as well shows the code under Share > Embed
2. Re-create the entire HTML, which near likely begins like "<iframe", to your clipboard, and then visit Moodle and find the text area where yous want to embed the video
3. Edit the text area and use the HTML push (its icon looks similar "</>") of the rich text editor to view the source code of the text area. There volition already be content in the text area fifty-fifty if information technology appears empty to y'all—attempt to find where you want the embed to announced (you can test out unlike positions until you find a desirable ane)
4. Paste your embed lawmaking into the text area
5. In the embed code, locate the "height" and "width" attributes that ascertain the size of the video actor
   1. For case, the width and height are bolded in this case code: "<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://example.com/embed/abcd1234" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>"
6. Remember to retain the aspect ratio of the video player—use an aspect ratio estimator to keep the height/width proportionate to the original

Different video platforms have different file size limitations, which may modify over time, besides. We will keep this section updated.

• Panopto — unlimited! You can store as many videos that are as long as you like. We recommend Panopto for this reason.
• Zoom - in your cloud recordings you tin store up to 1GB of video, but when recording to your computer the only limit is costless hard drive infinite
• Moodle - 250 MB simply annotation that uploads become slowly; you lot can lookout man their progress in the grayness bar in the lower left corner of your spider web browser
• VoiceThread - 3GB limit (but ensure that y'all are signed in via your CCA business relationship)
• VAULT - technically VAULT has no file limit, but uploads that have a while tin can time out and exist cancelled, wasting a lot of time. We recommend a 5GB limit every bit a guideline
• YouTube - functionally no limit, but remember that YouTube is inaccessible in China

Is your video also large for your called platform? In the next section, we depict the all-time techniques for reducing video file size.

Many video creation programs do not focus on limiting file size because they want to record full fidelity video, leaving the pick of optimizing the file later up to you. We recommend you employ one or more of these file size reduction techniques before uploading your video to ane of CCA'due south learning platforms. It will non only save you lot a lot of time waiting for the upload to complete, but and so save all your students collectively boosted fourth dimension spent downloading the video (remember that some students may not have broadband internet access), and finally it will reduce the file storage strain CCA's systems which gives united states of america more than resources to devote to profitable yous. Information technology is worth noting that Panopto has no file storage limit, however.

Trim your video. Don't let wasted fourth dimension at the start or end of a video increment its size, use a video editor to "trim" off unneeded content. Every major video editor has an like shooting fish in a barrel means of doing this. In the default Mac Bone video software, QuickTime Player has a Trim command with keyboard shortcut Command + T. For Panopto, run into How to Trim a Video in the Editor.

Carve up up content. If you're recording a long lecture, find stopping points to dissever information technology up into smaller concepts. Most pedagogical enquiry recommends you limit your videos to six minutes or less. While that can exist challenging, it will be effective. There is an inverse correlation between the length of a video and educatee date—the longer a video is, the less students eat and comprehend information technology.

Export a compressed or lower quality video. You can oftentimes choose an choice related to compression or video size when exporting or processing your video. For example, try exporting in 720p instead of 1080p to greatly reduce file size. Software similar VLC or Handbrake let you choose from even more consign options. This article on video export/conversion explains a few ways to reduce your file sizes.

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