Panopto Update June 2022
On the 25th June, Panopto will be upgraded to the latest version. Some of the headline features in this latest release will include:
Creation
Instant Edit
Lightning-fast post-edit video processing allows creators to publish videos just seconds after completing their edits. This minimizes downtime for viewers and speeds up all aspects of post-production and publishing workflows.
Smart chapters
Panopto’s unique, AI-powered Smart Chapters feature automatically indexes videos with a table of contents by analyzing screen recordings – even for meeting recordings and Capture recordings where Panopto does not have access to directly index the slide deck. This feature will now be enabled by default to create video chaptering automatically.
Smart Chapters
Accessibility
Caption Editing
- Find and Replace ASR-powered caption editing enables customers to quickly identify captions that may need to be edited using confidence highlights, and to replace all instances of an incorrectly transcribed word based on one initial manual correction
- Custom, site-level dictionaries for ASR and OCR allow customers to list common specialized terms, proper nouns, and other words that have a unique prevalence at their institution
- AI-powered caption translation – using Panopto caption dollars – can now be requested by customers, allowing for simple, one-step language translation based on ASR or service-created captions
- Caption end-time support ensures that closed captions that specify an end-time will now be honored by Panopto’s viewer, to improve the user experience and accessibility by clearing the prior caption when it no longer applies, as opposed to waiting until the next caption is displayed
Find & Replace
Captions can now specify an end-time
Multi-language ASR and multi-language search
- The ASR caption and search language can now be set per folder or per department. This enables administrators to set the preferred ASR caption language for the expected input so that captioning can reflect the language used in the initial recording
- ASR reprocessing allows customers to easily switch languages when a specific video was recorded in a different language than the pre-set default language for its containing folder
- An update to the automated speech-to-text engine has improved ASR caption quality, across all supported languages.
Portal visual refresh
A new design refresh brings a modernized look and feel to the main video portal and embedded folder views. User icons replace text-based username and help menu items, a clean and prominent Create + button is repositioned for greater impact and usability, and the search bar is now restyled and centralized
Home
Create menu
Browse menu
