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Enrich and repurpose your content into engaging, snackable experiences with Content Lab, Kaltura's AI-powered post production assistant. Automatically trim long-form videos to create shareable clips containing the most impactful moments. Content Lab’s AI engine identifies these moments based on high engagement points and speaker cues. Clips can be saved as entries and used in internal or externally embedded use cases and downloaded.
Before you start
Videos used with the Content Lab must meet the following criteria:
- Video must be in "Ready" status (transcoded)
- Video must have English captions
- Video must be 60 seconds or more in length
- Account must have Content Lab enabled
- Account must have an active REACH profile enabled with relevant catalog item(s)
Access the Content Lab
Steps for accessing the Content Lab vary depending on the Kaltura application.
- For KMC, access the Content Lab through the Create with AI button on the Entry Details page.
- For Video Portal, access the Content Lab through the Create with AI button on the Media page.
Create highlight clips with AI
- Click the Create with AI button.
The Create with AI screen displays.
The Create with AI screen is the Content Lab's main menu. Options shown vary depending on the services configured for your account.
- Click Clips.
If this is your first time generating clips for the entry, the Create clips screen displays.
If you've already generated clips for the entry in the past, the list of generated clips displays. Simply click Generate new to navigate to the Create clips screen.
- Choose your clip duration. Only the applicable options are enabled. For instance, if the video from which you are clipping is only 2 minutes long, the "=5 min" option is disabled.
- Choose your topic or purpose - Key insights and takeaways, Q&A and audience comments, or Custom request.
If you choose Custom request, an additional field displays allowing you to type to describe the moments you'd like to capture.
- Click Generate. The Content Lab begins creating your clips.
Once finished, the newly generated clips are added to the list on the right of the screen. Each clip in the list displays a thumbnail with a scrubber indicating this clip's position and duration in comparison to the original video. Also displayed is the clip's length and title.
The Create with AI screen displays.
Once finished, the newly generated clips are added to the list on the right of the screen. Each clip in the list displays a thumbnail with a scrubber indicating this clip's position and duration in comparison to the original video. Also displayed is the clip's length and title.
Preview a clip
- Click on a desired clip in the list. The left "preview" pane displays.
- Click the "Play" button to preview the clip.
Provide feedback on a clip
- Click the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to provide your feedback on the generated clip.
If you click "thumbs down", an additional screen displays.
- Click to choose a reason and, optionally, add specific details about why you gave the clip a "thumbs down". Your feedback is important to us!
- Click Send.
Manually trim a clip and save it
- Click on a desired clip in the list. The left "preview" pane displays.
- Click the Trim manually button. The editing bar at the bottom of your clip displays.
- Use your cursor to "grab" each end of the clip and trim it to your liking. You can make the clip longer or shorter, as well as change the clip's start point and end point. Note: 30% of the time before and after your selected clip is available on the timeline for your use.
- Once you are finished trimming, click Done. You may also click Cancel to cancel the action.
- Click Save clip. The Save clip screen displays.
A suggested title, description, and tags are automatically generated for your clip. (Suggested tags are copied from the original entry.) You may edit the title, description, and tags as desired. These will be saved to the metadata of the clip entry that is created. - Choose whether you would like to embed (burn) captions permanently onto the source video. The checkbox is unchecked by default. If there are multiple caption files on the entry, a drop-down list displays a list of caption files from which to choose.
- Click Save clip. The clip is added to your Saved Clips list.
A suggested title, description, and tags are automatically generated for your clip. (Suggested tags are copied from the original entry.) You may edit the title, description, and tags as desired. These will be saved to the metadata of the clip entry that is created.
Additional clip options
Additional clip options vary depending on the Kaltura application.
- For KMC, options are - Share & embed, Download, and Go to Entry.
- For KMS, options are - Edit video, Download, and Go to media page.
- Click on a clip in your Saved Clips list. The left "preview" pane displays with additional "Clip Options". In our example below, we are viewing additional clip options in KMC.
- Choose from the following options depending on the Kaltura application:
Edit video - Click to launch Kaltura's video editor.
Share & Embed - Click to place the clip into some other web page.
Download - Download the source to your machine (to upload it to social media, for example).
Go to media page - Navigate to the media page for this entry.
Go to entry - Navigate to the Entry Details page for this entry in the KMC.
