Key concepts on this page: Annotations and Annotation sets
We all experience important, memorable moments during our lifetime. With MCLS we give you the power to capture all of those moments in your video timeline to generate even more engaging live video experiences for your users. These are Annotations.
Annotations can be anything that happens at a specific moment in time, such as a goal during a football match, a break during a keynote event, or even the start of a new chapter in an audiobook. In its simplest form, an Annotation contains two pieces of information, a title, and the time the Annotation occurs.
Here are a few examples of annotations:
With this information, it's easy to identify all the individual ‘moments’ that occurred throughout a specific event.
More often than not, you will end up with multiple Annotations that are unique to a specific type of video content. In MCLS, you can group those Annotations into sets, and give each set a unique name.
For example, for a football match, the Annotations Kickoff, Half time, Full time, Goal, and Penalty can be grouped into an Annotation set called “Football match”. Similarly, Press Conference Start, Press Conference End, Display Sponsors, Display Reporter name can be grouped into an Annotation set called “Press conference”.
MCLS comes with a set of "Basic" Annotations ready for production use, and which are perfect for experimenting with. Whether you're tagging your events with Annotations from the basic set or from a set you've created, this is done using the Annotation Manager in the MCLS Console. To try out annotations in real-time, create an event, go to the Annotation Manager, and start playing around.
In addition to creating a timeline of events during your live stream, Annotations can be used to trigger multiple actions. By using multiple actions, you can specify the exact behaviour for each Annotation according to your own requirements.
Let's look at the football Annotations mentioned earlier, and assign some actions to each of them:
With no limitations on the number of actions you can use for each Annotation and our continually growing library of configurable actions, you can deliver powerful, authentic, engaging event information on your live streams, at the moment when it matters.
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