Working With External Video Content Items

If you create a new external video content item in Content Studio, then you will see that one of the fields in the content item contains a Select video... button:

If you click on this button, then the following dialog is displayed:

This dialog is the Viz Content Pilot Newsroom Component. You can use it to:

Browse video content stored in a Viz Media Engine.
Select the video clip you want to add to your content item.
Decorate the selected video clip with template-based graphics.

This manual does not attempt to provide a complete description of all of the Newsroom Component's features. For a complete description of the Newsroom Component, see Newsroom Integration.

To add a video to your content item:

Specify search criteria using the controls on the left side of the dialog.
Click on Go. Thumbnails of matching videos are then displayed on the right side of the dialog.
Pick a video. It is displayed in a new dialog, where you can play it.
If you want to add template-based graphics, click on Add. This displays a new dialog that you can use to select and fill out a graphic template.
When you have filled out your selected template, click on OK. The video is displayed again with the template graphics added. You can play the video again and adjust the timing of the graphic by dragging in the time line displayed below the video play controls.
You can add further template-based graphics by clicking on Add again.
When you are satisfied with the video, click OK to select it. The dialog then disappears and the name of the video you have selected is displayed below the Select video... button in the Content Studio window.

To complete the creation of the content item, click on Save. The video you have added is then sent to VME Online for transcoding. A progress bar and a sequence of status messages is displayed showing the progress of the transcoding process:

The status messages you will see are partly based on progress information sent back from VME Online. The messages correspond to VME Online states as follows:

Status message	VME Online State
Started	[none - the VME Online transcoding process has not yet been started]
Preparing transcoding	Downloading
Transcoding	Processing
Preview ready	Ready
Publishing	[none - VME Online has been asked to publish the transcoded videos but has not completed the operation and returned a new status]
Published	Published
Failed	Failed

For information about the precise meaning of the VME Online states, see the Viz Media Engine Content Management Interface Guide.

When transcoding is complete (which may take some time), details of the transcoded versions of your video are displayed in a table in the video field:

How many transcoded versions appear in the table, and what characteristics they have is determined by the set-up on your VME Online server.

You can change the content of the video field by clicking on the Select video... button, selecting a new video and clicking on Save. The new video is then transcoded and the table is updated with the results.

If Content Pilot is not installed or if you are running Content Studio on a non-Windows computer, then the Select video... button is not displayed. This means that you can view the contents of existing external video content items, but you cannot change them or create new external video content items.