Import a recording

Already gave this talk? Import its recording. Webinaric transcribes it, works out which slide was on screen when, and drafts each slide's script and speaker notes from what you said. Questions from the audience and the answers become FAQ entries, and longer explanations that don't belong to one slide become knowledge base documents. Nothing changes in the webinar until you review the draft and apply it.

Before you start

• The webinar needs its slides. The recording is matched against the slides' images, so add the deck first. See Import slides.
• The recording should show the slides. A screen share or a recording of the slides works; webcam tiles and demos in between are fine. One presenter works best.
• Supported files: mp4, mov, m4v, webm or mkv, up to 5 GB and 3 hours.

Start an import

There are two places to start:

• On the Slides tab, open Add and choose From a recording.
• When you create a webinar, the Recording section appears once you've chosen slides. The button then reads Create webinar and import.

Choose the source:

• Upload a file: drop the video or click Choose video. The video uploads straight from your browser, with a progress bar. Keep the tab open until the upload finishes; closing the dialog cancels it.
• Link to a file: paste a direct link to the video file, such as a cloud recording's download link. Pages like YouTube or Vimeo don't work, because they aren't the file itself.

Once the browser has read the video's length, the dialog shows about how many credits the import uses. If your balance doesn't cover it, the dialog links to Add credits.

While it's processing

After the upload you land on the import page, which shows each step: transcribing and finding slide changes, matching slides, aligning the transcript, writing scripts, and writing FAQ and documents. A one-hour recording takes a few minutes. You can leave the page: the Slides tab shows a banner with View progress, and then Review when the draft is ready.

The video itself is deleted from storage as soon as processing ends.

Review the draft

The import page shows the recording as a timeline, coloured by what was on screen (Slide, Speaker, Demo or Other), followed by these sections.

Slides

Each slide shows its image next to small frames from the recording it was matched to, so a wrong match is easy to spot. Below them:

• New script: what you said on the slide, rewritten as a script for the presenter.
• New notes: new speaker notes, when the draft has any. Otherwise the slide keeps its notes.
• What was said: the transcript for that slide.
• Current script (replaced): the script the new one would overwrite.

Untick a slide to keep its current script and notes. Slides that weren't shown in the recording are greyed out as Not in the recording, and slides you deleted since the import are skipped.

Suggestions

When several slides build up one slide step by step, or slides were never shown, the review suggests merging or removing them, for example Merge slides 3–5 into slide 5. A merge keeps the last slide and joins the scripts of the merged ones on it. Suggestions start unticked, and applying them asks first, because they delete slides.

Knowledge base

Choose where the FAQ entries and documents go: a knowledge base linked to the webinar, another one, or New knowledge base named after the webinar. A knowledge base that isn't linked to the webinar yet is linked when you apply.

• FAQ: each entry is marked Asked live (a question from the audience) or Anticipated (a question the talk answers). An entry that looks like a question the knowledge base already has is unticked and shows the existing one.
• Documents: longer explanations from the talk. They're added as documents you can edit, under From recordings.

Apply or discard

Click Apply selected to write the ticked items into the webinar, or Discard to drop the draft. After applying, the page lists what changed.

New scripts don't have audio yet. Use Render missing audio on the Slides tab, or let publishing render it.

If an import fails

The import page says why, for example when the recording has no sound, the link leads to a page instead of a video, or the file wasn't found. Click Import a recording to try again with another file or link.

You can import a recording again at any time, for example after changing the deck. Each import makes a new draft to review.