Add Content Items to a Playlist

You can add content items to a playlist from Managed feeds, Search-Base feeds, or other playlists. Playlist items created from feeds contain the feed content and attached images. Playlist items created from Burst, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter feeds also may also contain attached videos.

You must install the following software on the Inception Server computer for Inception to automatically generate playlist item thumbnails: XPression Video Coder v6.2 and latest version of Apple QuickTime. Refer to the Software Installation chapter in the Inception Installation Guide for software installation procedures.

To add content items to a playlist

1.Open the playlist that you want to add a content item to.

2.Open one of the following locations that contains the content items to add to the playlist that you opened:

•Feed Viewer panel

›Managed — Burst, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Mass Relevance, RSS, Sina Weibo, Twitter, or Wires

›Search-Based — Facebook, Flickr, Sina Weibo, or Twitter

•Playlist panel — existing playlist

3.In the source Feed Viewer panel or Playlist panel, select the content items to add to your playlist.

4.Place the mouse pointer on the Avatar of a selected content item, then click and hold the mouse button.

5.Drag the selected content items into an open playlist in the Playlist panel.

As you drag the content items over the playlist, a blue line previews the playlist position for the new playlist items.

6.When the blue line highlights the position in the playlist to add the new playlist items, release the mouse button.

The Playlist panel updates to show the new playlist items at the selected location. Inception automatically generates a reference image from the image or video attached to the new playlist item and displays the image in the Thumbnail column of the Playlist panel.

7.To view the image or video attached to a playlist item, complete the following steps:

a.In the Playlist panel, double-click or double-tap the playlist item for which to view the attached image or video.

The selected playlist item opens in the Playlist Item Editor.

b.Locate the to The Attachment field in the Playlist Item Editor.

Depending on the type of attachment, the Attachment field displays the following:

•Image — a full size version of the attached image.

•Video — the Preview icon Media_Source_-_Preview.jpg. Click the Preview icon Media_Source_-_Preview00054.jpg. to view the attached video in the Video Player panel.

For More Information on...

•working with Feed Viewers, refer to the section Managing Feeds.

•approving items in a playlist, refer to the section Approve Playlist Items in a Playlist.

•taking a playlist online, refer to the section Take a Playlist Online or Offline.

•deleting an item, refer to the section Remove Selected Playlist Items from a Playlist.