Kaltura: Adding Chapters to a Video

Overview

Chapters let viewers navigate through your video by jumping to specific points. Chapters act as a bookmark, allowing easy navigation to specific content. This inclusive practice reduces the cognitive load of the viewer by allowing them to choose the content they would like to view. 

Considerations

• Include custom names, descriptions, tags, and thumbnails.
• Chapters work well for longer (more than 15 minutes) videos containing multiple topics. 
• Chapters are created manually. 
• Chapter thumbnails are automatically generated based on where the cue point (red line) is located in the timeline. 
• Uploaded thumbnails are accepted in the following formats: JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF, TIFF. 
• Chapters can be viewed in the player by selecting the "View in Player" button. 

Instructions 

Create and edit chapters

1. Access the edit media page of a video, and click on the Timeline tab.
2. To create a new chapter, click the Create New Chapter icon.
3. Move the cue point (red line) to the desired position of the first chapter, then fill in the chapter information.
4. Hit Save. 
5. Move the cue point to the next desired position, and repeat steps 3-4. 

Edit chapter information

1. Enter name, description, and tags (optional).
2. The exact time of the cue point is shown, and you can modify it by moving the red line if necessary.
3. To modify an existing chapter, select the blue chapter icon. 
4. Hit Save when changes have been made.

Thumbnail

A default thumbnail is set for the chapter, but you can change it using Auto or Upload.

Auto

1. Pick a moment in the video for the thumbnail image, and then click Auto to create it automatically.
2. The thumbnail will automatically update in the chapter timeline.

Upload

1. Click Upload (or click on the thumbnail).
2. The Thumbnail upload window displays.
3. Choose a file to upload. TIP: Files should be saved in a 16:9 ratio and as a JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF, or TIFF. 
4. Click Save. The image will be used as your new thumbnail for that chapter.

Delete chapters

1. Click on the cue point of the chapter you want to delete.
2. Click Delete Chapter. A confirmation message displays: 'Are you sure you want to delete this chapter?'
3. Click Delete to confirm.