Simple Use Case

Hi,
In the KSE (Kaltura Simple Editor) if you press on save you will see that a screen is popup and ask you to save a thumbnail from the video, so yes the capabilities is there…
But should you use the simple editor to that that simple kind of task? The answer is no. what one should do is add to the KDP (Kaltura Dynamic Player)
The button that instruct to open the KCW (Kaltura Contribution Wizard) and add a capture thumbnail to that KDP as well, and there you have it…
A video player that can imports media clips and capture a thumbnail in a specific time.
Boaz

Thanks Boaz,

I'm going to take a shot at making that change. I'm a bit of a newbie to Flash/ActionScript so I'll take my lumps. To have some sense of the end, where in the code could I determine where to save the images?

Hi Charles,

Trying to thoroughly understand your need -

• Are you looking to create a thumbnail for your videos ?

Or

• Are you looking to extract imageS at various points from the same video and than manipulate these images in some way (not creating a video mix) ?

For the first use case, you can easily use the player's thmbnail capture button (see the player inside KMC).
For the second, you'd have to extend the player in order to call the same function the create thumbnail is using to get the current frame from the video and then upload this image and call addEntry service to add a new image to the server...

In that case I would load the KDP into another SWF and create a snapshot to save to your server, otherwise, you can't set the KDP to call a different url to save the entry thumbnail. unless you are using your own hosted KalturaCE and then you can patch the server code to use the thumbnail...