How to Add Chapters to your VIDIZMO Content

1. Click the Add Media button.  
2. Select ‘Upload Media’ to upload the audio or video for which you want to add chapters.  

3. To add chapters for Media already present on your Portal, select ‘Settings’ from its overflow menu to go into its Media Settings. VIDIZMO also allows you to edit the basic settings of Media during upload.  

4. In the Basic Settings tab, go to the ‘Chapters’ section. 

5. To create the first chapter, provide the start-time timestamp and title. The format can be either in the M:SS (Minutes:Seconds), MM:SS (Minutes:Seconds), or in the HH:MM:SS (Hours:Minutes:Seconds) format. After providing the start-time timestamp, leave a space and provide the chapter's title. The chapter titles can be written in any language you want and are shown during the playback. Here are the following ways a chapter can be created: 

6. Add the Start time timestamp and the title for the next chapter after switching to the next line by pressing the Enter key. Do this consecutively for all the chapters you create. 

Note: You must have at least 2 chapters for your content, and there should be a time difference of at least 10 seconds between each chapter. 

7. Click ‘Save’ or ‘Save and Close’ to save your created chapters.  

8. The chapters you've created for your content are displayed in the 'Chapters' tab on its playback page. 

Chapter Interactivity 

You can perform several activities on the chapters you've created for your content via its playback page.  

1. The orange marks on the player indicate the start of each chapter. 
2. The player will also show the title of the chapter that is currently playing. 
3. You can navigate to the start of a chapter in the video by clicking the thumbnails in the Chapters tab. 
4. When a chapter is selected, you can perform two functions on it. First, is the loop button lets you play the selected chapter on repeat. It will only repeat the section of the video corresponding to that chapter. To exit loop mode, click the button again or select a part of the seek bar outside the looped chapter.
5. The share button creates a link to the content and copies the link to your clipboard. When you paste the link, the content will begin playing from the instance of the start or the start time of the chapter you have selected. The content shared this way is only accessible to those with permission via the Access and Sharing settings. 

6. You can use the Portal's search function to display chapters and their corresponding content if the search keywords match the words in the chapter titles. 

7. Use the arrow button to display the transcriptions and chapters in where these keywords are present. Clicking a chapter will redirect you to the content's playback page, where it will begin playing from the selected chapter's start time. 

Chapters can also be manually created using VIDIZMO’s Studio Space, which offers additional functionalities to enhance the process. For more information, visit How to Add Chapters using Studio Space.

Using VIDIZMO Audio Indexer to Generate Chapters  

Apart from manually creating chapters, you can process your content for the ‘Chaptering’ AI Insight using the VIDIZMO Audio Indexer. This functionality automatically creates chapters for your content based on its transcriptions. 

Note: To use AI-based Chaptering, you need transcriptions on your audio and video files. If no transcriptions are found, the VIDIZMO Audio Indexer will automatically generate them when processing your content for the ‘Chaptering’ insight. You can also add transcriptions for your content using various content processing applications in VIDIZMO, such as Azure Video Analyzer ARM, AWS Indexer App, or the VIDIZMO Audio Indexer. 

Generating Chapters with Automatic Processing 

When the VIDIZMO Audio Indexer App is configured and enabled for Chaptering, it automatically generates chapters for the audio and video files you upload to your Portal.

Refer to Configuring VIDIZMO Audio Indexer for Chaptering for a configuration guide.  

Automatic processing takes place when: 

• Content is uploaded. 
• Content is ingested. 
• A VIDIZMO Live session is saved and published. 

Follow these steps to generate chapters via automatic processing.

1. Click the "Add Media" button to navigate to the Add New Media page. 
2. Select "Upload Media" to upload an audio or video. 

3. Edit the Media Settings of your uploaded content according to your preferences, then click "Save and Close" or "Save" to add it to your Portal for processing. 

4. Once the file is processed, open it and click the "Chapters" tab to see the generated chapters. 

5. You can also see and edit the generated chapters for your content by going into the file’s Media Settings again. 

Generating Chapters with On-Demand Processing 

On-Demand Processing via Custom Upload 

1. When Custom Upload is enabled, EVCM users get access to the Process Tab in their Media Settings, where they can select options to process the files during upload. DEMS users get "Custom Settings Upload" instead of the default "Upload Evidence" as an option to upload files.   
2. After the file upload is complete, select "Generate AI Insights" on the Process tab. 
3. Add 'Chaptering' in the Insights field. 
4. Click 'Save' or 'Save and Process' to save your settings and initiate the processing. 

5. After opening the Media, you can see the chapters generated via on-demand processing on its playback page.