SnapStream 8.3 adds RTMP Capture, Faster Searching and Reindexing, Brightcove and Vimeo Export, Improved Watermarking, Video-embedded Timecodes and more. We'll be walking through the new software during a webinar on Wednesday, September 13th at 2pm CDT. Check the new additions and improvements we've made:
SnapStream 8.2 is here with some cool new features including a Zoomable Trackbar, watermarking social posts and new social stats. We'll be walking through the new software during a webinar on Tuesday, June 6th at 2pm. Check the new additions and improvements we've made:
SnapStream 8.1 is here with some awesome new features and serious performance improvements. We'll be walking through the new software during a webinar on Tuesday, February 7th at 2pm. Check the new additions and improvements we've made:
A few of the highlights:
Native HTML5 Player (H.264 TP & MP4)
Enjoy seamless playback with no browser plug-in needed for all your H.264 transport stream (TP) and MP4 recordings. "It just works" for anyone in your organization, and across all browsers and devices including:
Using SnapStream without a browser plug-in is easy... you just need your recordings in H.264, which you get automatically with the SnapStream Encoder. If you are recording to MPEG-2 or MPEG-2 TP, learn how you can start recording in H.264.
Access your transcode settings in the admin panel to toggle this feature. Once toggled on, all of your H.264 clips will automatically be converted to MP4.
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MP4 file format offers maximum compatibility with video editors (like Avid and Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere), social websites (such as Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, etc) & mobile devices. Export MP4s directly into your video editing software, or clip directly to MP4 for easy integration with iOS and Android.
Frame-accurate Clipping (H.264 MP4 Recordings)
We’re always working to improve our clipping performance, and we’re happy to announce frame-accurate clippings for MP4 recordings.
Want to allow certain users a more extensive library? Or are you concerned with restricting channel access (does everyone need to be watching ESPN...)? With SnapStream 8.0, you can ensure your users are only accessing the channels they need.
Read the full release notes.
(Usually 1 hour)
SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade via a remote session.
For most users, you won’t need to uninstall and reinstall a new version of the SnapStream Web Player. Once your system admin upgrades your SnapStream to 8.0, your users will be ready to go.
Wednesday, Nov 16th at 1pm
A few of the highlights:
Seamlessly watch MP4 video on any browser with our native HTML5 playback.This means no more installing or updating the SnapStream Web Player Plug-in and easier use of SnapStream throughout your organization. It just works in all modern browsers.
1. You can now get more stats on your Facebook TV clip uploads including; time viewed, autoplays, impressions, engagement rate, etc.
2. Navigate to the social dashboard and view reactions other than just “likes”.
3. Create custom video thumbnails. Upload your own image to summarize your video and get the most attention.
You can now upload up to 140 second TV clips natively to Twitter (the limit used to be 30 seconds). You can now you can upload 15MB GIFs directly from SnapStream (the limit used to be 5MB). Bigger, better, higher-resolution GIFs.
Twitter increased gif upload limit. Now I can finally share the entire Matrix movie in a tweet! (cc @KingJames) pic.twitter.com/xpxNvm835b
— Ian Chan (@chanian) July 12, 2016
Pump up your engagement via YouTube with closed captioning. With SnapStream 7.2, TV clips uploaded to YouTube are automatically transmitted with their corresponding closed captioning. This improves the SEO and accessibility of your YouTube videos.
‘OR’ filtering allows you to combine similar workflows, eliminating clutter and enhancing your workflow process. For example:
Read the full release notes.
(Usually 1 hour)
SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade via a remote session.
For most users, you won’t need to uninstall and reinstall a new version of the SnapStream Web Player. Once your system admin upgrades your SnapStream to 7.2, your users will be ready to go.
Wed. August 31 at 1pm CDT
Good news everyone! We’ve just launched a quick update to SnapStream so you can now upload up to 140 second TV clips natively to Twitter (the limit used to be 30 seconds).
Not surprisingly, Twitter understands the growing popularity of video in social media..."video Tweets on Twitter have increased by over 50% since the beginning of 2016," Twitter reported.
So, get out there, unleash your creativity and share some great TV clips with SnapStream on Twitter!
Now, everyone can post videos up to 140 seconds long! We can’t wait to see the amazing videos you create and share.https://t.co/DFsuvnXkuL
— Twitter Video (@video) June 21, 2016
(Usually 1 hour)
SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade in a remote session.
SnapStream 7.1 just dropped and here are the details.
• Full iPad support for H.264 (Full touch-friendly interface)
• Schedule Tweets & Facebook posts (Place posts on "auto-pilot")
• More improvements (Social TV updates, export to SFTP & more stats)
With our touch-friendly interface and recordings in H.264, you can do it all - record, search, play, clip and post TV to Twitter and Facebook. - from the comfort of your couch (or just about anywhere). It's even better if you're a SnapStream Cloud customer because all your video is encoded to H.264, which means everything just works! No more installing plug-ins.
Timing is everything and now with SnapStream 7.1, you have the ability to control when your Tweets and Facebook posts get delivered. Placing your posts on "auto-pilot" will free you up to do whatever you want. It's perfect for TV shows who want to schedule their Tweets and Facebook posts ahead of time to go live once their show airs.
Step 1: Press "queue" for your new post.
Step 2: In the Social section, click your post to expand the content and press "edit." You'll have the option to schedule the day and time you want the post to go live.
Seeing is believing when it comes to cross-posting between Twitter and Facebook. Images are now previewed on Twitter and Facebook image cross-posts before they're pushed live.
We've added more security to your FTP uploads. Uploading to SFTP, which uses modern encryption techniques, ensures a higher level of security.
Like numbers and graphs? Good, because we're giving you more ways to analyze the performance of your SnapStream.
Now you can see how many recordings (or number of hours) were made each month.
You can also track the number of sessions last month or last year.
Read the full release notes here.
(Usually 1 hour)
SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade in a remote session.
For most users on SnapStream 6.6, you won’t need to uninstall and reinstall a new version of the SnapStream Web Player. The 6.6 player and SnapStream 7.1 are compatible. So once your system admin does upgrade SnapStream to 7.1, your users will be ready to go.
Tues. May 3 at 1 pm EDT
Thurs. May 5 at 3 pm EDT
New SnapStream 7.1 is available, so if you're a customer you can schedule an upgrade now. For more information on 7.1, you can either sign up for the webinar or read the 7.1 blog post.
(Usually 1 hour)
SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade in a remote session.
For most users on SnapStream 6.6, you won’t need to uninstall and reinstall a new version of the SnapStream Web Player. The 6.6 player and SnapStream 7.1 are compatible. So once your system admin does upgrade SnapStream to 7.1, your users will be ready to go.
Tues. May 3 at 1 pm EDT
Thurs. May 5 at 3 pm EDT
We're starting 2016 with a bang, with all-new SnapStream 7.0!
• New social TV dashboard (lots of Twitter and Facebook updates)
• New web interface (phone & tablet friendly)
• Upgrade to 7.0 (for current users)
• Join webinar to see 7.0 (for anyone to check it out)
Easily manage all your Twitter and Facebook posts in one place, with SnapStream’s new Social TV Dashboard.
SnapStream’s built-in Queue is a new way for social media teams to control what content gets posted to Twitter and Facebook. From the Queue, designated team leaders can review the the post’s visuals, make edits to the text, and publish the post live. This approval workflow is completely optional by the way; you can customize it to fit your team’s structure.
For example:
Does your social team have an approval process? Or is it freestyle, all-you-can-Tweet?
Whatever your social media workflow, we make it easy to set user permissions for who can post to Twitter and Facebook, and in what capacity.
Give user groups as much or as little access as you’d like.
For example: Create a group for Interns and turn on Queue Tweets and Queue Facebook Posts, to hold all their outgoing content for approval.
“I don’t care how many Retweets or Likes we got!” said no one ever. Everyone wants to see their top performing posts. SnapStream keeps a track record of all posts and engagement on Twitter and Facebook. Sort by the most Likes, the most Retweets, the most Shares, etc.
Create your clip once, and cross-post native videos and screenshots between Facebook and Twitter, while still playing to the strengths of each platform. The text is editable, so you can switch up the message to play to your Twitter and Facebook audiences. Make sure to include the appropriate tags, handles and hashtags for either network (see below: new auto-complete helps with that.)
Immediacy is important when you’re live-tweeting a TV show. Because as Ricky Bobby says, “if you ain’t first, you’re last.”
TV clip uploads to Twitter and Facebook are up to 50% faster in new SnapStream 7.0.
We live in a world of autoplay videos. To get the best engagement on your Facebook video posts, it’s a best practice to include closed captions. This way, users can “watch” a video even while the audio is muted.
With SnapStream 7.0, TV clips posted to Facebook are automatically uploaded with closed captioning.
Live-tweeting a TV show means using the right #hashtags and @usernames.
Auto-complete suggests Twitter @usernames and #hashtags to add into your tweets as you type, just like you’re used to.
For live-tweeting events—like presidential debates, award shows or sports—it helps you keep pace and confirms you’re tagging the right @usernames and the right #trending conversation.
SnapStream’s auto-complete for Facebook posts ensures that your Facebook posts perform at their best.
Start typing @ + the name of the organization or person you want to tag and SnapStream will bring up the official Facebook Pages to tag in your post.
Like with Twitter, we pull this data directly from Facebook, so it’s similar to natively posting on Facebook.
Here are some looks at before/after screenshots, comparing SnapStream 6.x to SnapStream 7.0:
SnapStream’s new web interface is touch-friendly and designed to work on mobile, tablet, desktop or any screen in the universe. (In the lingo, our web interface is now responsive.)
You can now use your mobile phone or tablet to search TV, create clips (by transcript), browse the program guide, schedule recordings and more. (Note: video playback requires the web browser plug-in, which only works on Mac and PC desktops.)
If you are recording or ShowSqueezing to H.264 and using Mac OS X, playback is faster and easier with our new native HTML5 video player. This means no more installing or updating the SnapStream Web Player Plug-in and easier use of SnapStream throughout your organization.
(* Limited to Safari on Mac OS X for H.264 and H.264 TP recordings)
“The world’s gone GIF crazy,” is a recent quote that we 
from Stephen Ziff, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ VP of Marketing and Digital Media. (He’s also a SnapStream user.)
Indeed, GIFs are everywhere… which is why GIFs are now part of SnapStream’s TV Library. GIFs are saved and catalogued exactly like TV shows and clips.
GIFs are automatically saved in the Library. You can download, view, tweet or email any GIF. *Bonus* you can also search for GIFs, because we retain the closed captioning with every GIF created.
Turn any TV Alert on or off, and keep ‘em saved for when you need them again.
Smart Clips are also newly improved. They’re now more accurate and more tightly focused on alert keyword.
As a refresher, alerts can be set up as “Closed Captioning Search with Shared Smart Clips” and for every TV alert match:
1) SnapStream automatically creates a TV clip for you
2) Shares each TV clip online via SnapStream and
3) Embeds a link to the online mention in the SnapStream Alert email.
This can be a powerful way to extend a SnapStream Alert and the corresponding TV mentions to someone outside your organization.
SnapStream has a new option for transcoding directly to audio files, WAV or MP3. No more multi-step process for all of our radio customers. Mark your clip in SnapStream, cut, and there you go… a WAV or MP3 file.
Use the new search filter channel:LOCAL to include or exclude local channels from your search results. Whether you want to hone in on localized news content or ignore it all together, that depends on you. We automatically group together all the local call signs in this search filter.
Read the full release notes here.
Upgrades are usually 1 hour. SnapStream's support team will perform the upgrade in a remote session.
Upgrading has never been easier. For most users on SnapStream 6.6, you won’t need to uninstall and reinstall a new version of the SnapStream Web Player. The 6.6 player and SnapStream 7.0 are compatible. So once your system admin does upgrade SnapStream to 7.0, your users will be ready to go.
Tues. Jan. 26 at 1 pm EST
Thurs. Jan. 28 at 3 pm EST
We're starting 2016 with a bang, with all-new SnapStream 7.0!
