With Key Moments Video Clips, you can easily find the most engaging moments from your event and automatically create video clips. This article covers how to generate, edit, and share Key Moments Video Clips so you can continue highlighting your best webinar content across multiple channels after the live event. Key Moments are identified by analyzing the times your audience was most likely to interact with your content during an event. Then, our automated pipeline takes the webinar's Single File Archive and creates Key Moment video projects based on the time codes in the Key Moments Reporting.
Note: This capability is included in the AI‑powered Analytics and Content Engine package. If you’re interested in adding it for an additional cost, contact your Account Manager.
Generating from Events
Things to Know
Key Moments video clips are generated when requested for events that meet the following criteria:
- The event is video-based
- At least 10 minutes long with a minimum of 400 words spoken (in one of the original speech-to-text on-demand captioning languages)
- Find more information on Key Moments reporting criteria.
- Audio-only event with no accompanying slides
- Recurring Simu-live events
- Breakout Rooms
- A hybrid event with the "in-person" option enabled
- Key Moments video clips do not generate when clients use a silent audio file as Presenter Media and a video clip as content for Simu-live and On-Demand events.
- The expected resolution of the video clips is 720p
Setup
Key Moments video clips can be generated from events run in your account. By default, Key Moments video clips are set to two minutes.
Request Key Moment video clips from the Smart Plays card in the Overview section of Webcast Elite. You must request Key Moments video clips for each event individually.
After you toggle on Key Moments video clips, choose the Video Format by clicking the pencil icon. Pick the layout for your video, then click OK.
Once generated, Key Moments video clips will be found in the Media Manager. Links to Key Moments video clips will also appear under Smart Plays in the Overview section of Webcast Elite.
It can take up to several hours after the event ends for the videos to appear.
In the Media Manager, Key Moments video clips are kept as a collection underneath the corresponding event recording file. To help locate Key Moments video clips, you can select Video and Key Moment under Content Type in the Media Manager filter panel.
Click on a video in the collection to open the Flyout Panel if you need to make any changes to attributes or components. You'll also be able to edit the video clip using the Text to Video editor.
If you remove content from the presenter media (either via the Archive > Edit Event for On Demand Viewing tool or by re-uploading presenter media that is edited outside of ON24), the transcript must be regenerated before you can use the Text to Video Editor.
- The transcript regenerates automatically, but it can take up to 1 hour to complete.
- If you try to create a Key Moment Video Clip before regeneration finishes, the text in the Editor will be outdated, and your video clip will be incorrectly generated.
- Wait until the transcript regeneration is complete before creating new clips from the Key Moment Collection.
Modifying the presenter media after a Key Moment Video Clip has been created can break the alignment between the video and the Text to Video Editor.
- For example, if you remove content from the presenter media that occurs before or during an existing Key Moment Video Clip, the internal timestamps will shift. The clip will be unaltered, but if you edit it in the Text to Video Editor, the text will no longer match the video.
- Proceeding with edits in this state will result in an incorrectly generated video.
- If you need to edit the clip, first re-create it through the Key Moment Collection.
If you know you will be making post-live modifications to the presenter media before the event goes live, set the Overview > Smart Plays > Generate video clips from Key Moments toggle to off.
- This prevents the system from automatically generating video clips based on “old” timestamps.
- Once the presenter media modifications are finalized and the transcript has finished regenerating, toggle this setting on to trigger the generation of the Key Moment Video Clip.
Generating from External Videos
Things to Know
- This feature is not part of any purchased Smart Play packages - it is only available with AI-Powered ACE.
- The following options are not currently available when generating key moments from an external video:
- Email notifications once a Key Moment is generated
- Auto-generated Nurture Page
- Captions
- Vertical Video layout
- External videos must be at least 10 minutes long for content to be generated.
Setup
You can generate Key Moments video clips from external videos you have uploaded to your Media Manager. Once the video has been uploaded, click the kebab menu or open the flyout panel to generate the video.
Click Generate Key Moments.
Kebab Menu
Flyout Panel
Editing Clips
To open the Text to Video Editor, open the Key Moments collection in the Media Manager, click on the kebab menu next to the video you’d like to update, and select Edit Video.
Transcript Panel
Check the Transcript box to display video content as text.
Use the search box to search the transcript using keywords.
Highlight text in the transcript to edit the video.
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Select and delete any portion of the transcript to remove the corresponding video segment.
- Deleted text appears with a strikethrough, and the word count and duration are updated automatically.
- If you change your mind, select the crossed‑out text to reveal a Restore option that returns the words to your video.
- You can also create a video clip based on the selected text.
Timeline
Check the Timeline box to display a visual timeline with video thumbnails, a timecode ruler, and an optional audio waveform.
Drag to select sections, zoom in and out. This will also highlight the applicable text in the transcript.
You can delete segments directly on the timeline or create a new video.
AI Agent
Use Agent to get assistance with editing, identifying, and generating key moment videos.
Use the chat bar, or click on Examples or Search.
- Examples - Gives you examples of what you can ask the Agent to do for you
- Search - Search for words or phrases in the transcript and lets you go to or select from the list of results
Captions
Notes:
- This option is only available if you have Automated On-Demand Captioning enabled in your account.
- Captions are only available for Key Moments Video Clips created from events, not for uploaded videos.
Toggle Include Closed Captions on to use captions in your video clip. Captions are generated based on the transcript.
Choose your caption style, size, background layer, and accent color.
Pro Tip: The default options for captions are based on the Closed Caption settings you set in Video Settings tab of your account's Branding Dashboard.
Once your captions are styled, click and drag on the caption bar in the player to choose the position.
Saving Edits
Once you've finished editing your video clip, update the name of your video if necessary, then select Preview Layouts to choose a video layout.
Click on the Layout Option you'd like to use.
If you choose Video Only Vertical, you can also choose Frame Crop or Centered Letterbox.
- Frame Crop - Click Reposition Frame, then click and drag the frame to the desired spot to select which slice of the source is captured.
- Centered Letterbox - Full 16:9 video is centered vertically with letterboxing above and below. You can update the background color.
- Note: Vertical layout is only supported for Key Moments Video Clips created from events, not from uploaded videos.
When you're ready, save your video clip. You can overwrite the original or save as a new clip.
Adding Additional Clips
Create a custom Key Moments Video Clip from scratch by clicking Create Key Moment. This will take you to the Content Builder - Video Editor just like when editing existing clips, allowing you to add a new clip to this collection.
Note: When creating a video clip, the event itself must be less than two hours long. If your event lasts longer than 2 hours, the text editor may lag and become less responsive, affecting usability.
Click and drag to highlight text in the Transcript or the section of the Timeline you'd like to use in the video, just like when editing existing clips. Drag the selection handles at each end of the selected text to adjust your selection.
You can also use the Agent to help create the video. You'll see additional options in the Agent, in addition to Examples and Search.
- Quotes - Presents a list of key quotes, typically a couple of sentences long. From there, click Go To to see the quote, or Select to use it as your video.
- Excerpts - Similar to Quotes, but can be much longer.
If the original event had auto-generated on-demand captions, or you've uploaded a caption file in the Flyout Panel for this video, you'll be able to style and place the captions.
Review/add a video name, then click Preview Layouts to select a layout option for your new video clip.
A preview of the video will be available for review before saving.
Once the video is created, you can select the flyout panel to update the thumbnail, add or modify tags, and publish.
Pro Tip: You can add intro and outro slides, watermarks, and automated captions to your videos in the Account Branding > Video Settings section for more customization.
Sharing Clips
When you're ready, publish or share the Key Moments Video Clip in other locations or choose the Key Moments videos you'd like to include in your Nurture Pages.
Auto-generated abstracts will be available and can be edited once Key Moments video clips are added to Nurture Pages or inserted into Engagement Hub or Target pages.
You can also download the clips for use outside of ON24.
Open the Key Moments collection in the Media Manager, then click the kebab menu next to the video you want to use to find the download option.
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