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Academic Video Online: Tips & Tricks

All about our multidisciplinary streaming video resource.

A quick video on searching and filtering tips is below.

Top of the player

You can navigate through the menu options such as:

  • Fullscreen
  • Transcript
  • Details
  • Clips
  • Share
  • Cite. 

Bottom of the player
  • Below the video progress bar, from left to right, are the length of video in hours and minutes, volume control, previous video, play/pause, next video, closed caption, settings, video information, and full screen option.
  • To advance the current video, use the video progress bar to slide forward or back.
  • Also available is the ability cite the video using copy/paste in APA, MLA, Chicago, or full citation. Searching the transcript box will reduce the size of the video and open the transcript on the right side of the screen. 

To learn more about creating clips view the video below,.


Proxy URL

If you are using the Share feature of the tool, you will not need to add a proxy url to videos, those are created on the Sharing tool.

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