Edit a Video for Length in My Media in UD Capture Space
- Login to UD Capture Space or Canvas with your UD credentials.
Note: only faculty and staff have access to UD Capture Space. - Click the My Media link at the top left. This shows all of your video files.
- Locate the video in your collection you’d like to edit.
- Click the pencil icon to the right of the video to open the video’s detail page.
- Click Launch Editor on the right. This opens the Kaltura Video Editor.
- Click and drag the yellow bars at the start and/or the end of the video timeline (at the bottom) to trim your file.
Alternately, you can click on a specific point of the video timeline, or enter a specific timecode in, and use “Set In” and “Set Out” to make specific start and end points for the video. - To cut something from the middle of the video, click on the starting point where you want to trim, then click the scissor tool. Likewise, then click the end point where you want to trim and have the video resume, and click the scissor tool again. Click the new clip you want to delete, and click the trash can icon.
- When you are finished editing your video, click on “Save a Copy” near the top right!
When your edit is finished processing, you can edit captions and the thumbnail of the video.
To edit the thumbnail image of your video:
- Locate the video in your collection you’d like to edit.
- Click the pencil icon to the right of the video to open the video’s detail page.
- Click “Thumbnails” under the video player
- Choose to upload an image from your computer, capture a point in the video to use, or have the system auto-generate options.
Other Video Editing Options
To make more complex edits to a video, you will need video editing software. The UD Library has a guide on other video editing applications that you can use that include free to commercial software.
Editing video can be extremely time consuming so make sure the edits you want to make will have the educational impact you desire.