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.
YouTube stories consists of one video file plus story metadata (title, category, description, and keywords). YouTube 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 YouTube 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 — use this menu to select a format to create a new story within the same story family. |
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Open — use this menu to select a previously-created story to open it in Story Editor. |
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Delete — click or tap this icon to delete the current story. |
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Restore — click or tap this icon to restore the story and move it from the Recycle Bin folder back to the Story Browser folder from which the it was deleted. This icon is only available for stories opened from the Recycle Bin. |
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Purge — click or tap this icon to permanently delete the story from the Inception Server. This icon is only available for stories opened from the Recycle Bin. |
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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. |
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Assignees — click or tap this icon to open the Edit Assignees dialog box to assign Inception users to the story or edit the Inception users assigned to the story. |
Account — use this list to select the YouTube 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 — use the following controls to select a video for the story from an Upload media source:
Browse — click this button to use the File Upload dialog box to select a video, upload the video to the Upload media source folder, and select the uploaded video for the story.
— click this icon to use the File list to select a video from the Upload
media sources for the story.
— click this button to use the Browse button to upload a video to the
Upload media source folder.
File — use this list to select a video for the story.
— click this icon to preview the video selected for story in the Video
Player panel.
•Directory — use the following controls to select a video for the story from a Directory media source:
›File — when displayed as a list, select a video for the story. When displayed as a box, enter the file name of the video to select for the story.
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this icon to enter the file name of the video to select for the story.
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this icon to use the File list to select a video for the story.
— click this icon to preview the video selected for story in the Video
Player panel.
•MOS Media Source — use the following controls to select a video for the story from a MOS media source:
Asset — drag the MOS object that contains the video for the story from the MOS Objects panel or MOS Favorites panel to this box.
— click this icon to preview the video selected for story in the Video
Player panel.
— click this icon to clear the selected video from the Asset box.
•QuickTurn Media Source — use the following controls to select a video for the story from a QuickTurn media source:
Segment — use this list to select the QuickTurn segment that contains the video for the story.
— click this icon to preview the video selected for story in the Video
Player panel.
•Streamline — use the following controls to select a video for the story from a Streamline media source:
Asset — drag the Streamline asset that contains the video for the story from Streamline, the Streamline Plugin panel, or the MOS Objects panel to this box.
— click this icon to preview the video selected for story in the Video
Player panel.
— click this icon to clear the selected video from the Asset box.
Title — enter in this box a title for the story.
Category — use this list to select a YouTube category for the story.
Description — enter in this box a description of the story.
Keywords — 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. |
Spelling Shortcut Menu
Suggested Spellings — select one of the suggested spellings to replace the selected misspelled word.
Ignore —select this command to ignore the spelling of the selected word for the current editing session. Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the selected word for the current editing session. The next time you open the story, Inception once again highlights the word as a spelling error.
Add to System Directory — select this command to add the selected word to the additional word list for the active dictionary. After adding the selected word, Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the word. The words that you add to the additional word list of a dictionary are available to all users that use the dictionary for spell checking.
Add to Personal Directory — select this command to add the selected word to your personal word list for the active dictionary. After adding the selected word, Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the word. The words that you add to your personal word list are only available to you for spell checking.
Spellcheck Dictionary — select this command to select a spell-checking dictionary for the current editing session.
Copy — select this command to place a copy of the selected text on the clipboard.
Cut — select this command to remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard.
Paste — select this command to paste the contents of the clipboard into the story at the cursor location.
Hotkeys
Panel Navigation
Hotkey |
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Alt ↑ |
Focus on the panel above the current panel. |
Alt ↓ |
Focus on the panel below the current panel. |
Alt → |
Focus on the panel to the right of the current panel. |
Alt ← |
Focus on the panel to the left of the current panel. |
Ctrl Alt → |
Open the next tab in the current panel. |
Ctrl Alt ← |
Open the next tab in the current panel. |
Editor Navigation
Hotkey |
Function |
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Ctrl ↑ |
Jump to the paragraph above. Firefox: Jump to the end of the current line. |
Ctrl ↓ |
Jump to the paragraph below. Firefox: Jump to the start of the current line. |
Ctrl → |
Jump to the start of the next word. |
Ctrl ← |
Jump to the start of the previous word. |
Alt Page Up |
Open the previous story in the running order in the Story Editor. |
Alt Page Down |
Open the next story in the running order in the Story Editor. |
Page Up |
Scroll text up by approximately the length of the editing area. |
Page Down |
Scroll text down by approximately the length of the editing area. |
Home |
Jump to the start of the current line. |
Ctrl Home |
Jump to the start of the story. |
End |
Jump to the end of the current line. |
Ctrl End |
Jump to the end of the story. |
Text Selection
Hotkey |
Function |
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Ctrl A |
Select all the text in a story. |
Shift ↑ |
Select the text from the cursor to the character above the cursor in the line above. |
Shift ↓ |
Select the text from the cursor to the character below the cursor in the line below. |
Shift → |
Select the next character to the right. |
Shift ← |
Select the next character to the left. |
Ctrl Shift ↑ |
Select the next word above. |
Ctrl Shift ↓ |
Select the next word below. |
Ctrl Shift → |
Select the next word to the right. |
Ctrl Shift ← |
Select the next word to the left. |
Shift Home |
Select the characters from the cursor to the start of the current line. |
Ctrl Shift Home |
Select the characters from the cursor to the start of the story. |
Shift End |
Select the characters from the cursor to the end of the current line. |
Ctrl Shift End |
Select the characters from the cursor to the end of the story. |
Shift Page Up |
Select text upwards by approximately the length of the editing area. |
Shift Page Down |
Select text downwards by approximately the length of the editing area. |
Copy and Paste
Hotkey |
Function |
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Ctrl C |
Copy the selected text to the clipboard. |
Ctrl V |
Paste text from the clipboard into a story. |
Shift Ctrl V |
Paste text from the clipboard into a story without any text formatting. |
Ctrl X |
Remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard. |
Text Editing
Hotkey |
Function |
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Shift Enter |
Add a line break. |
Ctrl Backspace |
Delete the characters from the cursor to the start of the current word. |
Ctrl Delete |
Delete the characters from the cursor to the end of the current word. |
Ctrl Z |
Undo your last edit. |
Ctrl Q |
Save and close the story. |
Ctrl S |
Save the story. |
