How to enable or disable features in Clipchamp for users in your organization
Applies To
Clipchamp for work accounts

Notes: 

  • This article is for administrators of Microsoft 365 tenants who would like to enable or disable features in Clipchamp in their organization. This includes features in the video editor, camera, video player, and on the homepage.

  • The video player, camera and homepage were previously Stream branded. Stream and Clipchamp were brought together under the Clipchamp brand as the unified Microsoft 365 video offering.

If you are a Microsoft 365 administrator, you can manage access to certain Clipchamp features for individual users, groups of users or your entire organization from the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center via Cloud Policy service.

Features you can enable or disable

The following table lists the features that can be enabled or disabled and where they apply.

Feature

Applies to

Disable AI text to speech

Video editor

Disable the ability for users to upgrade to Clipchamp Premium

Video editor

Disable screen recording

Video editor, camera, video player, homepage

Disable webcam recording

Video editor, camera, video player, homepage

Disable downloading videos on local devices

Video editor, camera, video player, homepage

Disable AI transcription generation

Video editor

Steps to enable or disable features

To manage Clipchamp features, follow steps 1-6 outlined in the following article: Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365.

  • At step 7, search for any of the following policies. Some of them use the Stream brand name, this will get updated soon as part of bringing Clipchamp and Stream together under the Clipchamp brand.

Clipchamp Cloud Policies

Disable AI text to speech in Clipchamp

Disable the ability for users to upgrade to Clipchamp Premium

Disable screen recording in Clipchamp and Microsoft Stream

Disable webcam recording in Clipchamp and Microsoft Stream

Disable downloading videos on local devices in Clipchamp and Microsoft Stream

Disable Al transcription generation (subtitles/captions) in Clipchamp video-editor

  • Next, select the policy that you’d like to configure.

  • Then, update the Configuration setting.

    • To disable a feature in Clipchamp set the Configuration setting to enabled

  • When ready click the Apply button

  • After making your selections, select Next to review your selections. Then select Create to create the policy configuration.

Note: Currently, disabling features in Clipchamp as described in this article is not available to US Government Community (GCC) High customers and Department of Defense (DoD) customers.

Disabling transcription generation in the Clipchamp player

To disable transcription generation in the Clipchamp player (formerly known as Microsoft Stream), follow these steps:

  1. Use PowerShell to connect to SharePoint Online administration.

  2. Run the Set-SPOTenant cmdlet to update the transcription setting to disabled:

Note: The following steps are applied tenant-wide

To disable automatic transcription generation, run the following command:​​​​​​​

Set-SPOTenant -MediaTranscription Disabled​​​​​​​

To disable all transcription generation, run the following command:

Set-SPOTenant -MediaTranscriptionAutomaticFeatures Disabled

Enabling or disabling the Clipchamp video editor altogether

To learn how to do this, see: How to enable or disable the Clipchamp video editor for users in your organization.

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