Kaltura

From Within a Course

1. Click the Tools link in the Navbar.
2. Select My Media.

From the Campus or UMS Landing Page

1. Click the My Media link in the Navbar.

From the UMS Video Website.

1. Go to the UMS Video Website.
2. If you see the word Guest in the upper-right corner of the screen, click it and select Login, and log in with you maine.edu username and password.
3. If you see your name in the upper-right corner of the screen, click it and select My Media.

If you have media files on your computer, you can upload them to Kaltura, or you can use it to record new video or audio. To get started with either task, go to Kaltura’s My Media tool.

1. Click the Add New button on the My Media page. Its dropdown menu will open.
2. Select one of these options:
   1. Media Upload: Add media files to Kaltura (i.e., ones you have saved on your computer).
   2. Kaltura Personal Capture: Create new video or audio files using CaptureSpace. Once you’ve finished creating new media, Kaltura will upload it directly to your My Media account.

Kaltura Personal Capture is Kaltura’s application for recording video or audio. To install it,

1. Go to Kaltura’s My Media tool.
2. Click the Add New button.
3. Select Kaltura Personal Capture from the dropdown menu.

If Kaltura Personal Capture has not already been set up on your computer, you’ll automatically be taken to a page to download and install it. Once you’ve installed Kaltura Personal Capture, it’ll open automatically whenever you select it in the Add New menu’s options.

This short video from Kaltura walks you through the basics of recording a video using Kaltura Personal Capture and uploading it to the My Media tool.

If you want to create a podcast (i.e., an audio recording) instead of a video or screencast, the process is nearly the same. Simply turn off your camera and the screen recording options when Kaltura Personal Capture launches.

You can view this video and many others on the Kaltura Learning website.

This video demonstrates how to add media to your Brightspace course. It shows several methods, including embedding YouTube videos, and how to add video and audio you’ve added to Kaltura’s My Media tool.

Kaltura provides you with unique HTML code (called an “embed code”) for each of your media files, which allows you to embed it in other parts of the web, like Google Sites, webpages, social media posts, etc. To find the embed code for one of your media files in Kaltura,

1. Go to My Media. You can access it through a link on your Blackboard home page (the system homepage, not your course homepage) or at video.maine.edu.
2. Click the thumbnail of the video you would like to embed. The video’s information page will open.
3. Click the Share tab. It’s below the video, so you might need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find it. (If your browser window is small, the tabs will instead appear in a dropdown menu under the “Details” button.)
4. Copy the text that appears in the “Embed” textbox. This is your embed code; it starts and ends with “iframe”.
5. Paste the embed code into the new site where you want your media to be viewable.

1. Record your video or audio (and follow your script as closely as possible).
2. Upload your completed video or audio to the My Media tool in Brightspace (or at video.maine.edu). After your file is uploaded, Kaltura will add machine captions to the media (usually within 90 minutes). A “captioning complete” tag will appear on your media when the captioning process is done.
3. Click the Edit button (pencil icon) to the right of the video’s title in My Media once your video has been captioned. A page with the video’s editing options will open.
4. Click the Captions tab to show the list of caption files available for your video.
5. Click the Edit Captions button to open the Closed Caption Editor. A list of your video’s captions will appear in its left column, and the video will appear in its right column.
6. Examine the captions in the left column, and make corrections to the text and timing as appropriate. You can also copy and paste text from your script if you have one.
7. Use the Find and Replace fields above the left-hand column to quickly fix reoccurring errors in your captions.
8. Click the Save button when you’re finished editing your captions. It’ll appear above the captions column once you’ve made changes.
9. Click the Back link on the top-right side of the page to return to your video’s editing options page, or click your name in the top-right menu to navigate back to your My Media page.