Use this panel to create, modify, approve, schedule, and publish the social media stories. The Story Editor panel opens when you double-click or double-tap a story in the running order or in the My Stories panel.
Brightcove stories consists of one video file and a set of story metadata (Title, Description, and Tags). Brightcove stories support the following video file formats:
•.3gp or .3gpp — Third Generation Partnership Project
•.avi — Audio Video Interleave
•.flv — Flash Video
•.mov — Apple QuickTime Movie
•.mp4 — Moving Picture Experts Group 4 Part 14
•.mpg or .mpeg — Moving Picture Experts Group Phase 1
•.ogg — Ogg Vorbis Audio
•.wmv — Windows Media Video
The Story Editor interface for working with Brightcove stories is as follows:
Top Toolbar
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Save — click or tap this icon to save the story. |
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Take Content Lock from User — click or tap this icon to take the content lock from the current user so that you can edit the story. This icon is only available with another user is currently editing the same story that you have open in the Story Editor. |
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Add Format — use this menu to select a format to create a new story within the same story family. |
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Open Format — use this menu to select a previously-created story to open it in Story Editor. |
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Delete Format — click or tap this icon to delete the current story. |
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Discuss — click or tap this icon to open the Discussion panel and join a discussion with other Inception users about the current story. |
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Recase — click or tap this icon to adjust capitalization to make the story text mixed case. Review the resulting text carefully, as the recase tool cannot account for all situations. |
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Drag — drag this icon into a running order to copy the current story to the running order. |
Account — use this list to select the Brightcove account to which to publish the story.
Media Source — use this list to select the media source that contains the video file for the story.
Upload Media Source — when you select an Upload media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select a video file:
Browse — click this button to use the File Upload dialog box to upload a video file to the media source selected in the Media Source list.
— click this icon to select a video file from the media source selected
in the Media Source list.
File — use this list to select the video file for the story.
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click this icon to preview the video file selected for the story in the
Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on mobile
devices.
— click this icon to select a video file to upload to a media source.
Directory Media Source — when you select a Directory media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select a video file:
File — use this box or list to select the video file for the story.
— click this icon to enter in the File box the file name of the image
or video file for the story.
— click this icon to use the File list to select the video file for the
story.
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click this icon to preview the video file selected for the story in the
Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on mobile
devices.
QuickTurn Media Source — when you select a QuickTurn media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select a video file:
Segment — use this list to select the QuickTurn segment for the story.
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click this icon to preview the QuickTurn segment selected for the story
in the Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on
mobile devices.
Streamline Media Source — when you select a Streamline media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select a video file:
Asset — drag the asset that contains the video file for the story from the MOS Objects panel, Streamline Plugin panel, or Streamline to this box.
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click this icon to preview the QuickTurn segment selected for the story
in the Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on
mobile devices.
Title — enter in this box a title for the story.
Description — enter in this box a description of the story.
Tags — enter in this box one or more words to act as content-search keywords for the story. To separate keywords, enter a comma between keywords.
Bottom Toolbar
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Approve — click or tap this icon to approve the current story for publishing. |
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Request Approval — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story when a user does not have approval permission. When e-mail approval in enabled, an approval request is sent to all users who have approval permission. |
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Unapprove — click or tap this icon to change the approval status of the current story from Approved to Not Approved. This icon is only available for stories that are approved and not published. |
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Publish — click or tap this icon to publish the current story. This icon is only available for approved stories. |
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Request Publish — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story, and to publish it as soon as approval is obtained. |
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Unpublish — click or tap this icon to change the publish status of the current story from Published to Not published. This icon is only available for published stories. |
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Hold — click or tap this icon to approve the story, but not publish it. This icon is available if a user with publish permissions requested that the story be approved and published. |
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Reject — click or tap this icon to reject a request to approve or publish a story. |
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Schedule — click this icon to schedule a date and time to automatically publish the story. |
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Reschedule — click this icon to change the date and time to automatically publish the story. This icon is only available for scheduled stories. |
Hotkeys
Hotkey |
Function |
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CTRL A |
Select all of the text in a story. |
CTRL C |
Copy the selected text to the clipboard. |
CTRL Q |
Save and close the story. |
CTRL S |
Save the story. |
CTRL V |
Paste text from the clipboard into a story. |
CTRL X |
Remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard. |
CTRL Z |
Reverse your last edit. |
