Versioning and Commenting in Synthesia

Once you generate a video at least once, you can access the video overview page by clicking on the video from your Workspace, My videos , or Shared with me.

On this page you can:

See the different generated version of your video.
Open the video editor to make further changes to your video.
Consult the video analytics.
Share the video with other members.
Publish your video.
Change some metadata of your video: Title, template used...
Comment the video as well as seeing pre-existing comments.

Publishing your video

In order get a public link for sharing your video with, or to embed your video on another website with an embed code, or to export a SCORM package to upload to your LMS, you'l have to make it public first by publishing it.

To publish your video:

Click the Publish button in the upper right corner of the video overview page.
Click the Make public button.

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If you unpublish a video, it won't be available for viewing from the video link or any embeds.
This means that neither the video link, nor any embeds using the embed code provided, nor videos embedded in your LMS via a SCORM package upload will be accessible by your viewers.
To make it viewable, publish your video again.

Sharing

There are three ways that you can share a published video with the Synthesia video player:

Option	Description
Copy embed code	Copy an embed code to embed your video in another website with an iframe.
Copy video link	Get a publicly accessible link to the Synthesia video's share page.
SCORM	Export your video as a SCORM package to embed the Synthesia video player in your Learning Management System and track your learners' video completion rates.

Video page options

There are three options for the video's share page (disabled by default):

Option	Description
Allow video duplication	Allow your viewers to create a copy of the video in their own Synthesia account.
Allow search engine indexing	Make the share page accessible via Google search and other search engines.
Enable call-to-action button	Displays a call to action at the bottom right of the video on the share page.

Here's what the video's share page will look like with both video duplication and the call-to-action button enabled:

SCORM

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When you add a Synthesia video to your LMS by uploading a SCORM package, the Synthesia video player will be embedded in your LMS.
Since the video will be added to your lesson as an embed, your learners will have access to all of the features included with Synthesia's video player, such as chapters and access to any translations you've published.
Plus, the file size will be under 100KB since the SCORM package adds an embed of your video hosted by Synthesia instead of including the .mp4 file.

To export a SCORM package:

Select an export version:
1. SCORM 1.2
2. SCORM 2004
Specify the percentage of the video that your learners need to watch in order to mark the video as completed for them in your LMS. Either drag the slider or edit the text in the text field to set the completion criteria.
Click Export SCORM to download the .zip file.

Video Thumbnail

Hover over the thumbnail and click the Copy thumnail button. An animated GIF thumbnail will be copied to your clipboard.

When pasted in your emails, blog posts, articles, and elsewhere, the copied GIF will act as a clickable link to the video's Share page.

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Static and animated GIF thumbnails for your video can be downloaded via Synthesia's API.

Video Analytics

After you published a generated video, you'll be able to access the metrics report from the Overview page. The report will include insights for video views and watch time for the videos's share page and any video embeds you've added elsewhere.

Metric	Description
Unique viewers	The number of individual people who have watched a video.
Total Views	The total number of times a video has been watched, regardless of whether it’s the same person watching multiple times.
Average watch time	The average time (in minutes and seconds) that a user has watched the video.
Total watch time	The total collective time users spent watching the video.

More actions

Click on the three dots in the top right corner of the video overview page to access the More actions menu.

From this menu, you'll be able to:

Download the video, audio, or captions
Duplicate the video
Translate the video
Generate Youtube codes
Save the video as a template
Remove the video

Download

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If you've added music from Soundstripe to any of your scenes and plan to upload your video to Youtube, you'll need to generate Youtube codes for your video.

You have three options for downloading your video content:

Option	Description
Download	Download the video as an `.mp4` file. The video's resolution will be 1080p (1920x1080 pixels).
Download audio	Download the audio of the video as a `.wav` file.
Download captions	Download the captions for your video. Captions are available as both `.srt` and `.vtt` files.

Duplicate

Duplicating a video will create a private copy of it in the My videos section.

Translate

Select the Translate option to select languages to translate your video into and start the video translation process.

Generate YouTube codes

YouTube codes prove that you have the right to use stock music from Soundstripe in your video.

If you've created a video using stock music from Soundstripe and plan to upload your video to YouTube, be sure to generate YouTube codes for the music you've used and add them to your YouTube video's description in order to avoid copyright issues with your video:

Click Copy codes
Add the codes to your YouTube video's description in the following format:
Code: 1YIF7UEMH95ICLKR, XGUK7Z9KN80CCFJY

Save as template

Clicking Save as template will create a copy of the current video as a template. You'll be redirected to the editor, where you can edit the newly-created template and publish it to your custom template library to use for future videos.

Remove

Put the video in the Trash.

Video Overview page

Publishing your video