The Media Library Search feature takes advantage of a number of different aspects of the Video Platform’s technology, including Auto-captioning, Semantic Topic Analysis, slide content, titles, and descriptions. With the powerful Visual Search, users can search through their Media Library by using any keywords from their media.
- Log into the Video Platform and click Manage Media at the top of the page to navigate to your Media Collection.
- Enter the desired search term in the Search window at the upper left.
- Press Enter to start the search.
- The Video Platform's Visual Search also supports the following search features.
- Basic searching by using simple keywords or characters, including alphanumeric, white spaces, or special characters. For example, searching for the keyword "business" and phrase "Hello world!" will return all the media that have "business" or "Hello world!" in the title, description, auto-captions, transcripts, etc.
- Visual Searches can also be of the form of a query, which includes any keyword, and for all keywords not surrounded in quotes, the following are also valid keywords:
- Fuzzy search: by given "keyword~". For example, searching "engine~" will yield results containing "engine" or "engineer"
- Prefix search: by any given keyword. For example, searching "te*" will return results of words starting with te like tell or test
- Wildcard searches: given by "keyword?". "?" is used to represent instances of alphanumeric characters. For example, searching "t??t" will return results with words that start and end with "t", like "test" and "text"
- The Video Platform's Advanced Search Options allows you to implement a query that can target specific fields, constructed like so: field: keyword where a valid keyword is as previously defined, and a field can be:
- =multimediaType, where multimediaType: file targets all files while mutimediaType: video targets all videos.
- =title, description, tags, owner, or metadata respectively targeting the title, description, tags, owner, or metadata of any file or videos. #keyword is syntax sugar for tags: keyword.
- =transcript or comment targeting the transcripts or in-video comment of videos respectively.
- =ocr or tableOfContent respectively targeting the content displayed in the "Slides" or "Index" tab in video players.
- =caption-<Languages> targeting the caption of the specified language. If <Language> is not present, English is targeted.
- To only search for content in certain folders, use the folder field, like so: folder: "myCourseFolder"
- Likewise to search for content in channels, use the channel field, like so: channel: "MATH 245"
- To search for all content in a specific date range, use the format like so: before:2022-02-01 or after:2022-02-01. The date format should be in YYYY-MM-DD.
- Using boolean operators during searches to include or exclude certain keywords from the search results. For example, this query title:"business" AND description: "franchise" will only return results with the term "business" on their titles and "franchise" in their descriptions.
- Utilizing the pin drops for the search tool will allow you to switch between a Visual Search or an Advanced Search, which will limit the search to a current folder.