Adding An Online Video To An Archive; Viewing The Contents Of An Archive - AMX Vision 2 Operation/Reference Manual

Adding an Online Video to an Archive

Vision2 enables you to provide content links to online videos from websites such as YouTube or MediaSite.
Follow these steps to add an online video to an archive.
1.
Click the Content folder under one of your archives on the left side of the page.
2.
On the Content screen, click Add an online video. A new series of options appears (FIG. 86).
FIG. 86 Add an online video screen
3.
In the URL to WebPage field, enter the URL to the video you want to add. Vision
URL, so it must be correct to avoid errors.
4.
In the Name to Use in Archive field, enter the name of the link as you want it to appear in the archive.
5.
Click Add.
To add a MediaSite link, click the Link to MediaSite Web Page tab. The same information is required as
above, but you must also enter a base website URL.

Viewing the Contents of an Archive

To examine an individual video you simply open a folder, and click on the name of the video. To view multiple
videos, use CTRL-click. The following options act on multiple selections:
Multiple Selections Options
Quick search for
Clear all selections
Delete Selected Video
The options for each individual video are as follows:
Video Options
Rename
Published
Play
Edit Info
Edit thumbs
Upload additional video
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Enter the text you wish to search for in the metadata and click the Search
button, the videos in the branch of the currently selected content folder will be
shown with the search text highlighted in the metadata.
The current selection is cleared.
Deletes the video shown in the right hand details pane.
Change the name of the video as it appears to a user
New videos which have been uploaded are automatically hidden from users
not accessing the content through the management interface. This enables the
administrator to add metadata before publishing the video for user access.
Allows you to playback the video in all the available file formats and bitrates to
check correctness (see the Playing a Video within the Archive section on
page 92.)
Provides metadata editing (see the Editing Metadata section on page 92.)
When a new video is uploaded the system automatically generates four
thumbnails which are used by the various user interfaces. You can change the
thumbnails using this function.
Once a video has been uploaded, you can upload additional file formats or
bitrates of the same video.
Archive Service
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