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Add text, annotation, and graphic overlay ability to the editor
Caitlin McCabe
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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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DAve,
You are correct, overlaying TEXT on top of the video when editing should be a function of the editor. This is a very useful feature. I will also add, the ability to add call outs or add shaped overlays (circle, rectangle, or even emojis - to make it fun). Most of the top competitors in your area have this feature, i will suggest adding it. This and recording a area or window on the screen instead of all the screen.
BTW, the new WEB Recorder has some of these features, but i see having a different recorder will cause a lot of pain for our users. Panopto should have ONE fully featured recorders instead of two different recorders.
We would like the ability to add text and/or graphics to recorded videos - much like YouTube.
Absolutely, we have faculty who want to add small text boxes to a video and the process of having to download a video from Panopto to use another video editor, and the to repeat the upload process is just tedious.
We have requested this in the past, and also the ability to overlay text with hyperlinks to websites or other videos within Panopto
I like this idea. We have been using Adobe Spark to create short title sequences etc. and then splicing them into a Panopto video as a clip using the editor.
This would be a helpful feature.
Are there any updates on timeline for this sort of functionality?
Ditto Carlos' suggestions. This is essential for us to go from merely recording a lecture to making it stand out. Is this on the roadmap?
@Dave Hannan will this be something that is only available with Camtasia, I would hope the intent to have a native tool for adding overlays, call to action buttons, etc. so existing content is also in the fold.
Thank you!
Michael
If the only milestone on the roadmap for this functionality is via the Camtasia integration, that will be a huge disappointment.
Agreed completely with the request. We just had an instructor ask for the ability to overlay a clickable link at the end of her video. She can do it in YouTube, but not here.
There is another Feature Request ("youtube-esk" Pop up link or note on top of video in session) which is related to this.
We would not consider this feature request fulfilled by a Camtasia integration.
David
Another way this feature could be useful is for video security at a company. We often put confidentiality text on videos, but it would be nice to also have "variables" that are interpreted on the fly.
For example, if we had a text overlay that said "Video streamed by John Doe on 9/16/21 19:02:00 UTC from 12.70.126.133", where the source of that overlay would be "Video streamed by {{userFullName}} on {{dateTimeStreamingStarted}} from {{IP Address}}" or similar. This would give us a huge leg up in preventing leaked videos for confidential material (like someone recording their screen with their phone).
Has this feature been implemented yet? I've have several requests for "lower third" titles during seminar presentations where it would be good to overlay a name and title during an event. Any update on this request?
Any timeline on implementing this? It is really necessary for courses where certain components need to hidden such as the recording date on the users computer clock etc.