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Upload Media to Kaltura
You can use the Kaltura MediaSpace to upload videos and other types of media, organize media into channels and playlists, and then share media and media collections via links and embedding directly into Blackboard.
Kaltura Personal Capture (Desktop Client)
Kaltura Personal Capture is a desktop application that helps you record presentations using any combination of voice, webcam video, screen action, and PowerPoint slides. You can then upload and manage your recordings alongside other Kaltura content in the Kaltura MediaSpace.
Using Kaltura Personal Capture on a Mac
As macOS increases its privacy and security settings for Apple's operating systems, running Kaltura Capture on macOS may require enabling additional permissions. Please use the instructions in the link below if you are seeing errors while trying to record using Kaltura Personal Capture on macOS.
Kaltura Express Capture
Recording with Kaltura Express Capture lets you make basic recordings in Kaltura. Unlike Kaltura Personal Capture and Lecture Capture (coming soon), Express Capture does not require the installation of any software on your computer. You can access Kaltura Express Capture via Kaltura MediaSpace or via Blackboard.
Closed-Captioning
Machine captioning is performed automatically on all videos uploaded to Kaltura (video.syr.edu). This process uses automatic machine generated transcription (ASR) that recognizes the words spoken in your video and provides machine-based captions with 75-85% accuracy.
Live Captioning
While third party speech-to-text products, such as Otter.ai, exist for live-captioning, ITS recommends that professional captioning be used whenever an accommodation is requested or whenever our policy requires that an event has live captioning.
See Guidelines for CART and ASL Interpreting for more information.
Deleting Captions and/or Transcripts
Users can choose to delete captions or transcripts from media.
Allow Time for Deletion
Kaltura may take a few hours to a day to completely remove captions and transcripts from media files once deleted. Kaltura may take a day or so to completely remove the transcript from media files once deleted. If you delete a caption file, we also recommend that you also delete the corresponding transcript file, and vice-versa.
Requesting Captions in Other Languages
Media owners can request additional captions be process for their videos in Kaltura. Supported languages include English, Spanish, and French.
Download Media from Kaltura
You can use the Kaltura MediaSpace to download your previously captured and uploaded videos.
My Channels in Kaltura
In Kaltura, a channel is a collection of videos and other media that can be public or restricted in terms of who can view and contribute media to the channel. Channels are useful for aggregating a large number of videos on the same topic or theme, or for sharing a collection of similar or diverse videos with a specific audience.
Create a New or Add to an Existing Playlist
Kaltura playlists are static lists of videos that can be accessed within Kaltura or embedded into Blackboard. For others to view videos in your playlists, the videos must be either unlisted or published to a Kaltura category or channel that your audience has permission to view.
Viewing Media Analytics
Kaltura allows users to view the analytics of individual videos they own or co-own. The details include the video’s performance over time, engagement, access by country, and device overview.
Accessing Zoom Recordings
If you use Zoom to make a cloud recording of your meeting, the Zoom recording will automatically be copied to your Kaltura My Media.
Please note, the video will not start converting in Kaltura until it has full uploaded in Zoom Cloud.
To access the Kaltura copy, please follow to steps above to view My Media in to the Kaltura MediaSpace.
Kaltura How-To Instructions
Kaltura has a wide range of support documentation for Kaltura MediaSpace and can be found here:
Kaltura MediaSpace Go (KMS GO) Mobile App
Android and iOS users can download and use the KMS GO App from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
For additional details, including first time login, please visit the Kaltura MediaSpace Go Mobile App page.
Need Help? Contact the ITS Help Desk seen days a week by calling 315.443.2677, emailing help@syr.edu, or stopping into 1-227 Center for Science and Technology (Hours of Operation).