Use a Channel Recorder button
What is a Channel Recorder button?
Adding a Channel Recorder button enables your audience to launch the recorder and submit their content to your channel. The recorder button launches a version of the screen recorder, that contains a simplified uploading experience that uploads directly to your channel.
This feature is available with our Team Education and Team Business plans. View our Plans.
How do I enable the Channel Recorder feature?
1. Log into your ScreenPal Hosting account.
2. From the menu on the left, click Channels.
3. Open an existing channel or click the New Channel button. This opens the Edit Channel or New Channel dialog, respectively.
4. To enable the channel recorder, scroll down and switch the toggle for Allow Users to Launch Recorder in Channel to the ON position.
When you enable the channel recorder, you can configure several options for how users will record and upload their videos to the selected channel.
Recording Method
Select Record on device if you want users to record using the ScreenPal Desktop app, which requires installation.
If you would like them to record the free, Online Video Recorder, select Record online.
Recorder Location
To show the button for the channel recorder within the selected channel, select the On channel page option.
To create a stand-alone page for the channel recorder, which you can distribute to specific users, select On a stand-alone page and then enter the unique URL you'd like to use.
Finally, to embed the channel recorder on your site, select On your site to generate an embed code.
In Recorder
Use this area to determine what information, if any, you want users to add to their uploaded recording. You can select Prompt user for Title and Prompt user for Description.
Show message after upload
Here, enter an optional message that users will see when they upload their recording to the channel successfully.
Set all uploads to unpublished by default
Select this option to automatically set uploads to Unpublished, enabling you to review them before you publish them to the channel for others to see.
Show link to upload page after upload
Select this box to automatically open the playback page for the uploaded video after the user is finished uploading it.
Load page after exit
Select this option to automatically open a webpage after the user finishes uploading their recording to the channel. Enter the URL in the box for the page you want to open.
Notify
If you want to be notified when a user uploads a video to your channel, select the Send Email checkbox under Notify and enter the email address you want to use.
The Call WebHook URL option is used the ScreenPal Channel Recorder API. For more information, see our Channel Recorder API documentation.
For more information, view our Channel Recorder tutorial here.
What if my audience is recording from a mobile device or Chromebook?
If your audience is using an iOS device, like iPhone or iPad, they will need to download the app from the App Store.
If your audience is using an Android device, they will need to download the app from Google Play.
If your audience is using a Chromebook device, they will need to download the app from Google Play.
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