Editing Videos and Presentations in Student Library
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Video
Echo360 ALP provides a basic video editing function, allowing you to perform cuts and trims to video content as needed. In addition, the adjustments you make can be saved on top of the existing video or be saved as an entirely new video.
Save As creates a copy of the video with the changes you made. The user performing the Save As function also becomes the owner of the edited copy of the video.
IMPORTANT! Check publishing info before saving changes!
Any changes you apply to a video will also appear in ALL published (or shared) versions of the video. Publishing (or sharing) simply provides links to the original content. When you edit that content, you change the content being delivered via those links. If desired, you can Save As after making edits. This creates a copy of the video that you now own, but which is not published anywhere.
To access the editing menu, click the chevron icon for the dropdown and select Edit Media.
Editing a Video
1. Find the video you want to edit, and select Edit Media from the chevron menu, or click the Edit Video icon from the content details page.
The video opens in the editor window.
2. Use the playback controls to find specific locations to mark.
3. Use the Make Cut button to mark the location of the playhead. Select a segment between cut marks (or between one end of the video and a cut mark), and use the Delete/Revert (they change depending on status) buttons at the bottom of the editor to make that change to the video.
To cut a segment from the video, put the playhead marker at the beginning location of the segment you want to cut. Click Make Cut. Move the playhead marker to the end location of the segment you want to cut. Click Make Cut. Click into the area between the cuts to select it and click Make cut (this also moves the playhead into that area; ignore it). You then click Delete, to delete that section.
Note: The selected area in between the two cuts changes to a lighter color than the rest of the playbar just before you click delete, as shown below. Once you click Delete the light blue section will turn dark grey.
4. To trim the ends of the recording, put the playhead marker at location where you want the video to start. Click Make Cut. Click into the area preceding the cut (the current beginning section of the video) to select it. Notice that the selected area changes to a lighter color than the rest of the playbar. Click Delete.
The opening segment turns grey to indicate it is no longer part of the playback. Move the playhead marker to the location where you want the video to end. Click Make Cut. Click into the area immediately following the cut (the current end section of the video) to select it. Notice that the selected area changes to a lighter color than the rest of the playbar. Click Delete.
The end segment turns grey to indicate it is no longer part of the playback. To revert cut segments (undo cut deletion), click into a grey cut segment on the playbar. Notice that the Delete button changes to Revert.
Repeat the above steps as needed to delete segments and/or revert deleted segments to active. Use the buttons across the top to complete your editing and process the video with your changes. These buttons apply to the video as a whole and work as follows:
RESTORE - Reverts all changes ever made to the video and restores the original video file. This option is only active if you open a video that had previous edits applied to it.
SAVE - Applies the changes you've made to this video. These changes are reflected in the playback bar on the editing screen; grey segments are deleted and blue segments are retained.
Note: After Save, the changes are applied to all published (and shared) versions of this video. Once processed, the edited version replaces the original version in all locations.
SAVE AS - Creates a COPY of the video with your edits. In addition, you are now the owner of the edited copy, regardless of whether you were the owner of the original video or not.
To exit without making or saving any changes, click the back arrow in the top left corner of the video editing screen.
5. Processing occurs immediately. After selecting to Save, Save As, or Restore, the processing of your changes begins immediately, however processing may take some time to finish, depending on the video length and number of edits. This means two things:
- Students or other users will not see the edited version until processing is complete.
- You should not try to re-edit the video until the initial changes are processed.
Editing Presentations
You can edit a presentation directly in Echo360 ALP by rearranging slides and by adding new slides and activities. To edit the content within a slide, download the presentation first, edit it in the program you used to create it, then upload it again.
Note: When a presentation is downloaded, it will be the file that was originally uploaded. It will not include any added slides, and will show slides if you have deleted them within Echo360 ALP. If the file was created in Echo360 ALP, the Download option is greyed out as these presentations do not have an originally uploaded file to download. See Using Classroom Tools and Downloading Content in Echo360ALP for more information.
You can select to edit a presentation from the Library page or from the Class List where it is published. You only have permission to edit presentations you have created or uploaded.
1. From the menu, select My Content.
2. Select the presentation you want to edit. The presentation summary appears. Click Edit Media from the chevron menu, or click the Edit Presentation icon from the content details page.
3. Your slides will appear in the slide deck.
4. Drag and drop slides to rearrange them as needed.
5. You can also delete slides or add new ones. To delete, hover your mouse over the slides until the X in the corner appears click it to Delete.
Your changes take place in the presentation immediately and are reflected in any class that includes the presentation.
A popup warning will appear to confirm that you wish to delete this slide and its attachments. Click Cancel to go back or Delete to confirm.
6. You can also add slides. To do so, click Add Slides. A range of options will appear.
7. Your presentation will save changes automatically. To return to My Content, click the arrow in the top left corner.
