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Create a caption editor role
I thought I had requested this feature before, but I cannot find it. So I am starting again.
It would be great if we had a 'Caption Editor' role.
The role could then be assigned to trusted users (mainly students) on certain folders or videos that would only allow them to edit the automatically generated captions to a video.
This would be a quick and easy way to increase the accuracy of the automated captions, without the worry of giving full edit rights to content.
Assign ownership of scheduled recordings when scheduling courses
I manually create scheduled recordings on my remote recorders (Epiphan Pearl 2's) for the semester. When I do so, I become the owner of videos.
Where there has become a problem is when faculty decide to restrict access to insure attendance to classes. Consequently, I get a request from a student who wants to access a video. The only way I have found to change this is to individually edit each recording and change ownership to the faculty for that particular course. This can be a long process.
This particularly became an issue after the Northeast snow storm this past weekend that caused cancellation of classes when faculty wanted to use videos from a prior semester, so shared that link, not realizing even with access for students, that folder is restricted to just that semester's course list. I was inundated yesterday with email requests for access to videos from courses with 200 - 300 students. I did inform the faculty about copying the video over to the current semester for access, but the link had already gone out to students, so the requests kept on pouring in yesterday to my email.
I would really like a way to assign ownership to the creator team rather than to the person who created the scheduled recording. I looked into the Panopto Scheduling Tool, but there is no way to change ownership with that. So that's why I'm asking to have this ability, for my own sanity if not for others who run into the same problems.
Thanks,
Elaine
Visual Indicator for Captions Hidden by Video Edits
When sections of a video are cut out of playback, it is difficult to quickly see which captions are also hidden from playback. It would be helpful for a some visual indicator to be added to the captions to show that they will be excluded from playback. This would speed up the captioning editing process significantly. Bonus: if a caption line is begins in a section that has been cut from playback but the text ends in a spot that would be played back, that this would be visually indicated in the caption line as well.
Stacy Cohen
Users Need Email Notification + Banner on Videos 30 Days PRIOR to Media being Archived or Deleted.
Since we implemented our auto-archive policy after 2 years of not being viewed (a great feature!), a couple faculty said they were frustrated that they didn't get notifications about the move to archive—which takes 2-3 days before the videos can be recovered. While system admin get the notifications, it would clearly help our users to get that notification, too, so they can prevent their media from being moved to the archive—if that's important to them.
Thanks!
Caption / Transcript Download Control at Video or Folder Level
Had a faculty member reach out: Is there a way to prevent students from downloading the captions transcript file in a Panopto video? currently teaching a summer class, and one of the students let them know that others are downloading the transcript file and then uploading it to ChatGPT, so they'd like to prevent them from being able to download the file if possible."
As more AI ins found around campuses, allowing creators to control what downloads the vieweres have access to on a more modular level can hep creators. At the moment, there is an all or nothing site-wide option on such settings.
Multifactor Authentication
Please add a Multifactor Authentication setting for Panopto accounts
Record Clips from The Editor
When I'm going over material I've previously recorded, sometimes I want to clarify or supplement what's in the video with my own clip as an annotation. The process now is to go back to a previous tab where I can access "+ Create" and record myself and the screen via Panopto Capture in the browser. However, I think it would be really helpful if one could just record a new clip straight from the editor using "Add Clip", having a recording feature available there so I could insert it straight to the timeline right there where I want it in the editor instead of having to back track to "Panopto Capture", record the clip, and then insert it from where I saved it. Might there be a way to implement a solution like this?
Include archive restore jobs in the "Processing" queue
It would be helpful to have access to what sessions are currently in flight from the archive back to live storage.
Provide functionality to automatically delete user accounts upon deactivation/ deletion in SSO
Currently, Panopto accounts are created for users if they access a Panopto link and login using SSO via our institution.
However, once someone leaves our institution and we remove their account from our Active Directory, their Panopto account is not removed accordingly.
As confirmed by Panopto, Panopto does not provide this functionality (automatically delete user accounts upon deactivation/deletion in the SSO provider).
We'd like this to be investigated and this feature introduced.
I believe this was raised previously - FR-3847
Scrubbing during playback
Another feature request from a faculty member: you can drag the playhead slider around within a video, but the displayed frame only jumps to show the new frame at the moment when you stop dragging. It is easier to locate a particular segment in a video if the player updates the frame continually as you drag the playhead (scrubbing).
Video.js, for instance, has this behavior which can be seen if you drag the circle on the timeline on their demo video. Here's a mention of scrubbing in their API docs. I don't think you're using video.js but wanted to mention it.
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