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AI Highlights

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Written by Tomas Tarasovic
Updated over 3 weeks ago

You can learn more about Vidcast's approach to AI in AI Transparency Technical Note in the Cisco Trust Portal.

Condense hours of video recordings into minutes with AI Highlights. Vidcast automatically generates summary of most important moments from any video with eligible transcript, allowing users to consume content and information they otherwise wouldn't due to its length.

Whether it is a lengthy Town hall, Quarterly business review, or company All hands, your Vidcast audience now has the option to choose if the want to play Full video or Highlights only.

full video and highlights only player


Selecting Highlights will allow them to watch the highlight reel of all highlights, one by one. If a particular highlight catches their attention, they can always swap to Full playback player for more context!

hghlights player in action

Highlights can be also launch and reviewed from the control panel on the right hand side of the video (or below if the video is playing in the theatre mode).
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highlights in the control panel highlighted

By clicking on the link icon in the top right corner of the player, you and your audience will be able to copy easily copy link to all highlights, copy just the current highlight or get a link to full video. .

These options change full video, current timestamp and all highlights in the full video mode.

Additionally, you can watch highlights, without the need to open the video, in the dedicated highlight reel. Simply open hover your mouse pointer over a video thumbnail (within Vidcast) and if the video has highlights available, you will see a highlights reel button.

thumbnail with highlights reel

By clicking on the highlight button, you will open a dedicated highlight reel window, where you can review only the most important moments of the video.

highlights reel player


​Vidcast will automatically generate highlights for videos with transcripts longer than 100 words (estimated 50-80 seconds). This process can take up to 1x duration of the video and the creator will be notified by in-app notification and via email, once Highlights are generated.

Notification screenshot

Email notification screenshot


You can edit your Vidcast's highlights by clicking the Edit button on the playback page and selecting Edit highlights tab.

edit highlight tab screenshot

Step by step on how to edit highlights can be found in the Edit highlight article.


Questions? Start a chat with our support team or reach us at help@vidcast.io

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