Create interactive video paths in Kaltura

Kaltura Interactive Video Paths enable you to add choice-based learning paths to your videos, inviting your audience to engage and participate.

To create Interactive Video Paths, first create an Interactive Video. Interactive Video can be created through My Media in Canvas or by going to Kaltura Media Space.

1. Select Interactive Video from the Add New menu.
2. From the Create Interactive Video pop-up window, complete the two sections: Set Details, and Add Media. 
3. Select ‘Create’. The Kaltura Interactive Video Composer will open.

Detailed instructions to create an Interactive Video are available from Kaltura.

Once you have created your Interactive Video, these tips give an overview of building your Interactive Video Paths in the Interactive Video Composer.

• Begin building out your project layout by clicking and dragging empty nodes onto the node map.
• Hover over the right-hand side of each node and drag the arrow to the node or nodes it should connect to. You can connect the node to any other node on the node map, even itself. You can also create multiple connections from one node. Every path you create will automatically add a hotspot to the origin node that can be easily styled and positioned within the node editor.
• Open the media library and drag your media onto the desired nodes.
• Double-click on a node to begin editing your hotspots.

Hotspots are the interactive elements of the video that a viewer selects to ‘choose their own adventure’.

There are two ways to create hotspots in the Kaltura Interactive Video Composer.

1. You can link the video to other nodes on the node map. This dynamically generates hotspots for each connected node. These hotspots will be stacked in the upper left-hand corner when you double-click into the node editor. You can edit and delete these app-generated hotspots.
2. You can manually add hotspots to your video. Double click on a node on the node map or use the hotspot tools to draw or duplicate hotspots.
   To draw, click the ‘Draw Hotspot’ icon and click and drag the hotspot onto the video.

See the Kaltura site for detailed instructions on how to edit hotspots, and adjust their text, size and appearance.

After you complete building your project within the Composer, click ‘Save Project’ in the lower-left corner of the screen to save your project in Kaltura MediaSpace.

To view the project you built as an interactive experience:

1. Navigate from the Kaltura Interactive Video Map/Composer to the User menu.
2. Select My Media and filter the media to display Interactive Videos. The list of the interactive videos in your Kaltura account is displayed.
3. Click on the thumbnail image or the name of the interactive project. The Media Entry page is displayed. The experience will automatically begin to playback.