In this article, we will look at the different ways you can upload content to your favorite online education video platform ! Simple, intuitive and versatile, the 'Create' function lets you easily upload any type of media, with fine-grained control over the details of the upload and the target.

 

TABLE OF CONTENT

1/ GENERAL INFORMATION

2/ THE 'UPLOAD' FEATURE

3/ THE 'ADVANCED' FEATURE

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

The 'Create' button appears on every page of your Nudgis instance, and can be accessed from the top right corner of the site. Clicking on it opens a drop-down menu offering three choices : 

• 'Record' gives you access to the UbiCast WebStudio, an online application that lets you record content and upload it to your personal channel, or the site's default channel if you don't have a personal channel (this setting is defined by the administration team). This online recorder is a feature in its own right, the details of which are covered in The WebStudio article, which is directly relevant to our subject and which we invite you to discover immediately after reading this. This method remains the simplest and most intuitive way of recording and uploading content into Nudgis
• 'Upload' opens a page allowing you to add media accessible on your workstation, and apply the import settings you want
• 'Advanced' gives access to all the content upload options, being a Youtube video, an embedded code, a livestream, etc.

You will also find information about the remaining storage capacity allocated to your account. This information is represented by a progress bar expressed in percentage:

Your storage space usage corresponds to the size used by all the media for which you are in the list of Speakers and all the media in your personal channel.

If no storage quota has been applied to your account by the site administration team, this information and the progress bar will not be displayed

 

THE 'UPLOAD' FEATURE

As described above, we will not be discussing the WebStudio any further in these lines, but will concentrate on the other possibilities offered by 'Create', and first of all the 'Upload' function.

As we said, clicking on this option opens a page dedicated to adding media from your workstation, either by using the 'Import from your computer' tool, or by drag-and-dropping your files in the designed field:

   The 'Upload' feature allows the user to add videos in bulk   

Once your file(s) have been added, a new page opens displaying them in a waiting queue, with several options available:

 

You can delete any waiting media before upload, add new videos (as many as your storage quota allows you to), choose the destination channel, and set the language of your video. If automated subtitles and AI enrichment are supported, icons will indicate it next to the selected language. 

If videos are uploaded in bulk, the settings made in this page will apply for the whole batch of media

Then, you have four options to select for your video(s):

• 'Import as a draft': it means the videos are uploaded in status 'Unpublished'. It allows the contributor to edit the media before making it public
• Import as '360° videos': Nudgis having the ability to make 360° videos, you can decide to apply the correct settings for this directly when uploading
• 'Enable subtitles generation': based on the chosen language, automated subtitles will be created for your videos
• 'Enrich with AI': allows Nudgis's integrated AI to create either one or all of the following for your uploaded media: Title, Description,  Keywords, and a Questionnaire:

Next, the 'Advanced settings' gives you three choices to make for your upload : 

• 'Transcode': allows you to create resources of different qualities authorised by the site's transcoding settings, again defined by the administration team.
• 'Detect slides': launches a task to extract Jpeg images from your presentation. These slides can be found and consulted by the viewer in the player, and can also be used as navigation points in the video. Find out more about this feature in the article 'The Nudgis Dynamic Rich Media player'.
• 'Autocam': launches the algorithm designed by UbiCast to produce a dynamic framing of your filmed subject : for example, a teacher moving within a wide shot in a classroom can, thanks to Autocam, be automatically displayed in a tighter frame that will follow the subject as long as it remains within the limits of the wide shot.

   Every operation can be performed after the upload if it is not done here   

Finally, once you have set your preferences, click on 'Upload files'. Before doing so, you can also check which audience will have access to your videos:

Disabling the 'Transcode file' option cannot coexist with enabling the 'Slide detection' and 'Autocam analysis' options. These last two operations need to be performed on a transcoded file. Launching them after the media has been uploaded will automatically activate transcoding as defined by the transcoding settings, which is under the site administrator's control

Once 'Upload files' is hit, the videos will be uploaded one after another. The grid will display information on the advance of each task, and a link for each media is rendered available once the upload is complete:

Each video is then accessible in the target channel, ready to be edited and published, or already available to your audience depending on your choices at the upload.

 

THE 'ADVANCED' FEATURE

This function allows the user to unlock several ways of integrating new content to Nudgis. First, you will need to choose the type of media you want to integrate, 'Video' or 'Live':

Video

Ticking the 'Video' box unfolds a list of choices for your upload:

• Youtube: allows to integrate a Youtube video through its URL. You can give it a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

• Embed code: allows the integration with an embed code. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

• External resource: allows to integrate a video through its URL, given its source authorise it. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, make it a 360° video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

• Empty media: allows to create a Nudgis media page without any resource, e.g. playable video. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video. You can add a video to the page created afterwards.

 

Live

The other type of media that can be created from the 'Advanced' mode are livestreams. Choosing this option will unlock several way to integrate your livestream event:

• UbiCast or other recorders: allows you to create a livestream page for an UbiCast capture device, or any recorder RTMP compliant. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

• Embed code: allows to integrate an existing livestream through an embed code. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

• External resource: allows to integrate an existing livestream through its URL. You can give the media a title, select a destination channel, the language of the video, and decide to import it as a Draft (Unpublished):

Before importing, you can check which audience will have access to the video.

 

This brings us to the end of this article, which we hope has taught you everything you need to know about adding content and media to Nudgis. But, of course, there is no substitute for practice, so we invite you to experiment with the different possibilities we have just outlined, and to see by yourself how fluid and intuitive our solution is to use. We hope you will enjoy it, and that Nudgis will become your reference tool for broadcasting and recording high-quality multimedia content.

Do not hesitate to consult the articles in our Help Center to learn more. We hope you enjoy your Nudgis experience !

To continue : 'The WebStudio'