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How to Use Newsjack

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Here you will find information on how to use the Newsjack service to upload and manage video clips and sequences.

Steps

1. Sign Up. You will need to enter the following information: user name, email address, password, channel and profile information.
   
2. Log in using your unique username and password
   
3. Upload videos.
   
   1. Browse video files on your PC or mobile phone. (maximum size is 20mb)
      
   2. Choose a video (wmv, mov, flv, 3gp, avi, mpg and mp4)
      
   3. Click Open.
      
   4. Select Private or Public use (do you want the clips to be seen by others or not)
      
   5. Commercial – (If you check the commercial tick box, it means the clip you upload will be available to companies and individuals who may want to use your video for commercial purposes (for example, News reports). If you set your clip to be commercial, then it will automatically be made public and viewable to other users)
      
   6. Add a title (relevant) – makes the video more interesting
      
   7. Choose a location – Country and city.
      
   8. Add a description
      
   9. Select a channel – this official channel shows the clips (not the sequences), otherwise the clips just appear in a library on your channel
      
   10. Tags – (Tags are descriptive keywords used to categorise your clip based on its content, for example if you upload a racing vid, you could tag it with 'Sport Racing Cars'. You can add as many tags as you like, but remember to include a space in between each tag).
       
   11. Allow comments? – This gives other NewsJackers the opportunity to give feedback on users clips
       
   12. Clips will appear in your lightbox once they’ve uploaded correctly
       
   
   
4. Lightbox. All uploaded clips appear in the user's lightbox. Clips can be viewed and deleted where applicable. Clip options can be changed from here.
   
   • Clips can be borrowed from other channels for use within your own sequences. (Only ones made public), this gives the user the opportunity to remix a news story from their own perspective.
     
   • If users can find a clip on another channel, they play the clip and press ‘Add to Lightbox’, the clip then appears in their own library for use.
     
   • If users wish to embed the link to the clip into their own web pages they can copy and paste the code supplied and add to their own page, eg: blog or webpage
     
   • Each clip comes with size, and duration details, also date specific to when the clip was first uploaded
     
   
   
5. Editting Deck
   
   1. Once all the clips required for a sequence are uploaded to the lightbox, the clips appear on the editing deck.
      
   2. The user places each clip required, from the library in the order of the sequence by dragging and dropping the clip onto the tv
      
   3. Use the yellow slides to start and finish a clip in the sequence, EG: If a clip starts and ends with either a coloured box or something unsuitable then the user has an opportunity to edit the clip so that the best image starts and ends the sequence and will be available for others to identify the sequence more easily
      
   4. Stings can be used in between clips for continuity – library assets courtesy of NewsJack.tv can be found under stings on the Editing Deck
      
   
   
6. Manage sequences. The completed sequence now appears on the Edit Channel
   
   1. Users can broadcast to their channel by dragging the sequence into the broadcast channel
      
   2. Replace an existing broadcasted sequence with another by dragging and droppig the news sequence over one in the panel
      
   3. Admin may also choose to broadcast a users sequence on the official channels if they are deemed suitable
      
   4. Users can change the channel colours, the channel picture an edit the channel tagline from within Edit Channel
      
   
   

Tips

• Capture your video on your phone and upload it via your computer, you won't get the data charges then.
  
• WAP service to upload your video on the fly and edit it later when back in front of a computer. This will allow you to free your phone memory up if you want to take more video.
  
• At Newsjack we refer to individual clips as just that, 'Clips'. If you join a number of clips together then we refer to that as a 'Sequence'.
  
• All clips go through an approval stage via a moderator. All videos will be viewed within a 24hour period. Please flag up any videos or comments that you feel are unsuitable, the moderator will deal with them within 24 hours.
  

Warnings

• If your video does not appear in your channel then it is either still waiting for approval from administration, has been rejected from processing, or has already been deleted due to clip being inappropriate. Please contact Newsjack team if unsure or you seek to enquire about your video.
  

Things You'll Need

• A video camera or video enabled mobile phone.
  
• Internet access
  
• Network coverage/contract from one of the many network operators.
  

Sources and Citations

• http://www.newsjack.tv
  

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