Video Editor

Introduction

The Video Editor provides video transcoding functionality on a censhare system.  You can work interactively on the media asset editor tab of an asset in censhare Web or use XSLT. The censhare system supports the following media transcoding services:

• Video FFmpeg Service: This service depends on open source ffmpeg video transcoding. FFmpeg can be downloaded from relevant websites. For more information, see Video transcoding with FFmpeg.
• Video Media Convert Service: This service depends on video media convert transcoding. Video Media Convert  is a pure cloud solution. Using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, requires additional license costs by Amazon AWS. For more information, see Video transcoding with AWS Elemental MediaConvert .
• Video Amazon Elastic Transcoder Service: This service depends on Amazon AWSs elastic transcoding. Amazon Elastic Transcoder by Amazon AWS is a pure cloud solution. Using Amazon Elastic Transcoder, requires additional license costs by Amazon AWS. For more information, see Video transcoding with Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

How-to: Configure the Video Editor

1. Log in to censhare Web via user who has system user / system administration permission. This is necessary to see System menu on censhare Web.
2. After successful login, click Show system on the user menu on the right side:
   
   

   

3. On the System properties, go to Video Editor and select the media service that you want to use for video transcoding:
   
   

   

4. After selecting the media service, click OK to save your changes:
   
   

   

5. Refresh the web page. As a result, you see:
   
   

   

How-to: Use the Video Editor

1. Go to the Editor tab of an video asset: Add the start and end time for transcoding.
2. Click TRIM to start the transcoding:
   
    

   

3. When the Video processing has been finished, a notification appears to inform the user:
   
   

   

   
   The trimmed video is shown in the Video tab.