Chapters are like bookmarks that learners can use to navigate to points in a recording quickly. They are a great way to provide context to the content in your media. EchoVideo allows you to auto-generate chapters on any video with audio or audio-only media assets with transcripts stored in EchoVideo.

Reach out to your institution's Admin team if you would like to have Chaptering turned on.

This feature set offers a comprehensive chapter management system with AI-generated chapters using AskEcho. It also provides tools for manual chapter creation and a user-friendly interface designed for ease of use, even without technical expertise.

You must be logged into EchoVideo, and your media assets must have a transcript for chapters to be auto-generated.

Create Chapters Automatically

1. Click on the media tile from the Library to open the Media Details page.
   

   The General tab under Details is selected by default.

2. Select Chapters from the menu on the left, as shown in the figure below.
3. Click Auto Generate.

AskEcho generates the chapters, and they appear in the Chapters menu.

Create Chapters Manually

1. Click on the media tile from the Library to open the Media Details page.
   

   The General tab under Details is selected by default.

2. Select Chapters from the menu on the left, as shown in the figure below.
3. Click Add Manually.
4. Enter a Start Time in HH:MM:SS format.
5. Enter an End Time in HH:MM:SS format.
6. Enter a Title, up to 60 characters, that describes the chapter.
7. Optionally, turn on Pause Video While Typing.
8. Click Add Chapter.
9. Repeat steps 4 through 8 to add additional chapters. 
10. Click Save.

The chapters appear in the Chapters menu.

Import Chapters

1. Click on the media tile from the Library to open the Media Details page.
   

   The General tab under Details is selected by default.

2. Select Chapters from the menu on the left, as shown in the figure below.
3. Click Import Chapters.
4. Use the Filestack window to locate and select the JSON File (.json).
5. Click Upload.
   

   A Select File modal opens.

6. Click Next to import the .json.
   

   If there are errors in the Error Summary, make any necessary changes to the .json and upload again. 

7. Click Add to add chapters to your media.

The chapters are added to the media.

Chapter Actions

After chapters are generated, you can perform the following actions from the vertical action menu: regenerate, edit, download, upload, or delete all chapters. 

Regenerate

Select this to have AskEcho automatically regenerate the media's chapters. 

Edit

Choose this to edit each chapter's Start Time, End Time, and Title. You can also Delete chapters while editing.

Download

Select this to download a JSON File of the listed chapters. 

Upload

Choose this to upload a JSON File with the chapter information. 

Delete All

Select this to delete all of the listed chapters. 

Navigate through Chapters

Once the chapters have been generated, you will observe two new things on the EchoPlayer:

1. The timeline is segmented by chapters. You may hover over one of the segments to see the title of that specific chapter.

   

2. Click the Settings button on the player and then Chapters, as shown in the image below. A list of all of the generated chapters is displayed and you can navigate through the whole media asset.

   

Once you toggle on chapters in your media asset, the EchoPlayer will show the Chapter navigation components everywhere the media asset is embedded or displayed for all users.  

Other Notes and Considerations

• If you make an edit to your video, the timing of the chapters will not be updated automatically. You must choose Regenerate Chapters from the vertical action menu.