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Microsoft Stream Video

Microsoft Stream brings video to your everyday work applications. Use Stream to easily capture and stream video content.

Table of Contents

Accessing Stream
Recording Video
Recording Tools
Recording your Screen
Sharing Video Links
Generating Transcript & captions
Enhancing Videos

Additional Resources

📹Basic Video EditingBlackboard & Meetings

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The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program encourages video content be linked from a streaming server (such as Stream or OneDrive) as Blackboard is not optimized for streaming video. You can record video Announcements directly in Learn Ultra and video Feedback directly in Blackboard Learn Original and Learn Ultra (5 minute limit).

Accessing Stream

Stream is fully integrated into Microsoft 365 providing an fast way to capture video. You can create and share video files directly from Stream, Teams, and OneDrive.

Access Microsoft 365
Search for Stream and Pin it to your app launcher
Open Stream to create a new Recording

Creating webcam videos or recording your screen is as easy as 1-2-3.

Recording Video

If prompted, select Allow to use your camera and microphone.

Click the video capture button to start and to pause recording.

Capturing video, your image will appear.

Recording video, click to pause.

Once captured, you can choose to Record again or Review your recording.

Review, Trim, or Delete clip.

Click Back to keep and record more or delete and start over.

To Trim, drag the start/end handles.

Click Play to review again, then click Confirm when you are done.

Once you’re done reviewing your video, click Finish to complete the process.

The Upload will happen automatically.

You can now Share your video.

Recording Tools

Teleprompter

Effects

Recording your Screen

Click Record screen.

Select a screen to record.

You can share from an open Tab, Window, or Entire Screen.

Select what you want to share, then click Share.

Capture your screen, narrate, and click through the process.

You can Review, Trim, or Delete clip.

Return to this screen to Stop and Pause your recording.

You can Stop, Pause, and Resume recording.

Once you’re done recording, click Finish to complete the process.

The Upload will happen automatically.

You can now Share your video.

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You can use Microsoft Teams to present live and/or record your screen and video.

Record from a PowerPoint presentation

Sharing Video Links

Click the Share button to send an email link and/or specify people who can view your video link.

Send or Copy link

Share the link with Anyone

Share the link with VWU

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Sharing the link with Anyone doesn’t require sign-in, anyone with the link can access the video. You can embed code into another site for people within your organization to view, embedded videos require authentication and respect the permissions of the video file. Public embed codes are not supported.

Generating Transcript & captions

From the Stream player, you can Generate and Edit a Transcript and captions for your video.

Select Video settings to Generate:

Select Transcript to Edit:

Enhancing Videos

From the Stream player, you can also enhance your videos in the following ways:

View, edit, and manage video transcripts and captions
Add titles and text to your video
Add an assessment
Use the Windows Video Editor App