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Content Retention - Hide/Delete folders with retention policy
Our retention policy is different to the one that Panopto offers. But we wonder if it is possible to have it as an option.
We use Panopto and Blackboard, so every year Bb courses are provisioned with a new Panopto folder.
Rather than going on the basis of when a recording was watched, we delete folders and everything in it when a folder has hit a certain age.
It would be great if the Panopto's content retention policy could include such option on folders rather than content.
In addition. One of the things we have is that we allow teaching staff content owners that wish to keep their content a chance to move it into a newer folder to keep it. So we email them to let them know that their content is in risk of being deleted. Currently videos that are impacted by the content retention in Panopto emails just the admin. It would be great if it could then alert the content owners as well.
Report of Restoration of Videos from Archive
Hi
Is it possible to generate reports of videos that have been restored/unarchived from archive and have their last restored by/last restored date time included in the report?
-Sam
Set the Default "availability" on newly provisioned folders
We use the workflow that requires the availability set to "never" so the user can then hit the publish button to make the recording available. We would love it if we could choose the default of a newly provisioned folder to "never". At the moment we are having to go into all folder once provisioned and set this manually.
I think others would also benefit from being able to change from the "immediate" default.
It being this time of year where we roll over all our modules I wondered if this had been considered a full 2 years later?
Text to speech feature
Some faculty are requesting a text-to-speech feature which would allow a transcript to be uploaded, changed to speech and then be added to a video.
Re: Notification of an issue affecting Panopto for Windows
UPDATE: A clarification to the previous post. A server-side update was implemented to address the Panopto for Windows upload problem, preventing it from occurring in the future. However, any current recorders still exhibiting this behavior may need to follow the steps below in order to resolve it and enable successful login attempts going forward. We apologize for any confusion in the previous post and encourage you to reach out to the support team if you still need assistance with this issue.
Sign out of Panopto for Windows
Clear the cache and cookies for the machine's default browser.
Chrome:
Firefox:
Edge:
Note:
If performing this on managed machines on behalf of an institution you can remove every user's user.config file in the AppData location to force users to re-authenticate. This is located here:
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local\Panopto,_Inc\Recorder.exe_[*]\[VersionNumber]\user.config
Notification of an issue affecting Panopto for Windows
Hello - We want to let you know about an issue affecting the Panopto for Windows recorder that is causing some users to be intermittently signed out and preventing automatic upload.
What is the issue?
We have received reports that some Panopto for Windows users are being intermittently signed out while recording. As a result, the recording is stored as an offline recording and requires the user to sign back in for the upload to be successful.
How do I tell if this affects me?
Panopto for Windows users will see recordings on the Manage Recordings tab under “Offline Recordings” after completion.
How do I mitigate the issue?
We recommend that any affected user log out of the Panopto for Windows recorder, close the program, reopen it, and then log back in with the Panopto for Windows recorder. This should reestablish the connection needed for upload. More information on how to upload offline recordings can be found here.
We will update this post as soon as we have any updates.
Set a default thumbnail for a specific folder
Hi
I’d like to know is there is any possibility to have a specific thumbnail, by default, for every video uploaded or programmed to a specific folder?
Use case: one of my colleagues is programming every month all the recordings for our amphitheatres and has to manually add a thumbnail image for each recording. Having a default thumbnail for a given folder would be quite useful and save time.
Thanks, and take care
JMC
Add transitions, text, annotation, and graphic overlay ability to the editor
Original Post
Gemma Witton, 3/13/2018 at 9:29 AM
Being able to add a title, either spliced inline or overlaid would be cool. Especially if it also populated the contents. Particularly useful for content without slides.
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Pauline Cooper, July 2020
We would like the ability to add transitions (fades, dissolves, wipes) to videos.
Allow an uploaded PDF or PPT to be a secondary stream - allowing the video to be the primary stream
When I upload a PDF I would love the ability to choose if it is the primary or secondary stream. Currently it creates it as the primary and you cannot change it- which means it is on the 'big screen.' Rather I would like the PDF to be presented in the upper left corner. However, I want to retain the ability to download the PDF from the Panopto video - that feature is great.
Related to this - I would love if the ability to designate the PowerPoint slides as secondary (so they display in the upper left right when you play the video). Currently the PowerPoint slides will play on the 'big screen' - at least with PowerPoint slides, the viewer does have the ability to switch the screens themselves.
So to recap, I am requesting more control on the designation of streams (Primary and secondary). See my attached image.
