Help your audience search and consume videos more easily with chapters for the Clipchamp video player. Owners of the video can either have chapters created automatically, or they can manually break videos down into smaller, digestible sections organized by a Table of contents.
Viewers can search a video’s chapters and Table of contents to quickly determine which video content is relevant to them and to easily find and jump to a specific section.
Create chapters automatically
As a video owner, you can add chapters to videos uploaded to the video player.
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Select and open a video file in OneDrive/SharePoint so that its player page opens.
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Select the Video settings icon from the menu on the right-hand side of the video.
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Toggle Chapters to on.
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Click the Generate button.
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Once chapters are enabled, the Chapters icon will appear in the menu on the right-hand side of the video. There, you can see the automatically created chapters and make edits to them.
Add chapters manually
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In the Chapters menu item to the right of your video, if you'd like to add chapters manually in addition to the automatically generated ones, select + New chapter.
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A new chapter will appear based on the position of your cursor on the Seek bar of the video player. Add a chapter title in the Title field.
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Select the Check mark to the right of the Timecode field to save your chapter information. Select Cancel (X) to the right of the Timecode field to cancel your changes before they've been saved.
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Repeat these steps for each new chapter you want to add.
Edit chapters later
Next to the chapter name select the More options (...) > Edit. There you can adjust the chapter title and timecode. To change a timecode that's been automatically populated, move your cursor to the desired starting point on the Seek bar. Or type the timecode you want your chapter to start at in the Timecode field beneath the chapter's Title field. The chapter start time and associated thumbnail will update.
In the More options (...) menu there's also a Delete option if you'd like to remove a chapter from your video's table of contents.
How chapters appear to viewers
If a video’s owner has created chapters for that video, Chapter markers will appear on the Seek bar. Viewers can hover over a marker to view a chapter’s title. To view a video’s chapter list, viewers can select the Chapters icon in the upper-right corner of the video. The video’s chapter list will open to the right of the video. When a viewer selects a chapter title on the Seek bar or in the Chapters list, playback will jump to that timecode and start playing from the beginning of the selected chapter.
Share a chapter or a list of all chapters
You can send out a link to any single chapter or a list of links to all chapters within the video. The shared links will point to the beginning of the subject chapters.
Share a single chapter
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Open the Chapters panel to the right of the video.
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Scroll down as needed and locate the chapter to be shared.
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Select the Share chapter icon.
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Add a name, group or email. Optionally, Add a message.
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Select Send.
Alternatively, you can select Copy Link, which will place a link into your clipboard that you can share with others.
Share the chapter list
You can copy the complete chapter list to your clipboard to share with others.
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Near the top of the Chapters panel, select More options (...).
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Select Copy chapter list to clipboard. A message will confirm that this is done.
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Paste the content into message(s) to recipients.
Copy-share via Firefox
To be able to copy chapters, your browser must permit writing to the clipboard. The Firefox browser provides only partial support for doing so. You may need to set specific browser config parameters.
In a new Firefox browser tab, go to about:config and set parameters as follows:
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Firefox version above 87: Add dom.events.asyncClipboard.clipboardItem param with value true.
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Firefox version is above 63: Add dom.events.asyncClipboard.dataTransfer param with value true.
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Firefox version older than 63: Support is not available for these legacy versions.
Learn more about browser compatibility in this Firefox help article.
I get an error message when saving chapters to my video
If the chapters you added to your video do not save and you see an error message instead, try refreshing the page.
If you refresh the page and the problem persists, check the video's upload date. Some videos uploaded prior to February 16, 2022, must be reuploaded for the manual chapters feature to work.
