Local recordings are video/audio recordings that are captured directly on each participant's device, providing very high-quality and high-resolution video footage.
This is vital for:
Retaining video quality in different layouts, such as speaker view or picture-in-picture.
Creating content suitable for social media, where high video quality is essential.
For example, have presenters whose video is blurry from bad WiFi no matter what they try? No longer a worry if you have local recordings on.
Local recordings are unaffected by internet bandwidth or connectivity issues and don’t need to be compressed down.
Enabling Local Recordings
From any event’s “Media” tab, click on the "Local Recordings" toggle to turn local recordings capability on for that event.
How to Use Local Recordings
1. Begin the Event: Start your event as the host. A notification will confirm local recording is enabled and provide some instructions.
2. Going Live: When you press "Go Live," each participant's feed is recorded locally. Verify in the media tab that recordings for you and your presenters are in progress.
3. During the Webinar: Continue with your webinar normally. No extra steps are needed for recording, and only active speakers will be recorded.
4. Ending the Webinar: After you end the event, all hosts and presenters should remain on the event until all local recordings are uploaded. The media tab will display notifications for this.
5. Ensure Recording Completion: If a presenter leaves prematurely, you’ll see a message about their recording upload status in the Media tab. The presenter can rejoin via the event link, and the upload will resume. Once Hosts see all speakers' recordings are complete, everyone is free to disconnect.
Finding Recordings Post-Event
Just with any other recordings within Sequel, you'll find local recordings of your event in the Media Hub within its own folder.
To help differentiate, the video assets will be named per the date and speaker name that was recorded.
For example: July 14th - Shelly Cointrue - Local Recording
Creating HQ Social Clips with Sequel AI Studio
Ensure your content gets the most mileage it can by using local recordings in Sequel AI. To use your speakers' local recording media instead of the standard recording,
Navigate to the webinar recording (the normal one with the screenshare, etc.)
You'll find a new tab here - "Recordings"
Toggle on "Use Local Recordings" to activate the HQ video. Take note of any speakers not marked as available. You can always "Rerun face detection" in the main Sequel AI page under three dots.
Editing Speaker and Lower Third Settings
Setting Layout
Head to the "Format" tab and choose a layout for your speakers.
Speaker Settings for Clip
You can adjust the video layout as well as the name, title, zoom and placement of each speaker under "Speaker Settings" below the video clip and in Layouts.
Click on the desired speaker's circle below the video to open options:
You can click and drag to re-center the speaker after zoom as needed.
Adding/Customizing Lower Thirds
Local recordings are clean, raw HQ recordings of webinar speakers. As such, any lower thirds used during the live webinar will not be applied automatically to clips using local recordings.
However, you can always add them as needed (as well as branded captions) in the "Names" tab within Sequel AI project.
Of course, you can customize the color and font so it always fits your brand!
Note: This feature is only available for Business tier plans and above. Reach out to learn more about what kind of impact the Business plan can have on your demand gen workflows!