Downloading and Archiving Media from My Media Library
NIU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to use Kaltura to create engaging content, build instructor presence and learner community, demonstrate skills, and share knowledge. The value of potential re-use of those learning objects over time is significant, hence the need for long term storage of many media files. Users who take advantage of multimedia learning strategies, along with users who teach online and blended courses will by nature have greater storage requirements than those who do not.
NIU's institutional license of Kaltura does have an overall storage cap above which NIU incurs significant additional charges. To ensure long-term feasibility and access to these resources, NIU has established media storage and retention guidelines to help identify and eventually remove content that is unused or unneeded. Users with content meeting guidelines for removal will periodically receive notification in advance of deletion, with instructions to download source files if needed.
If you would like to download a copy of your media file(s) for archival purposes, the steps below describe how to locate and download the original source file(s) for your media. Optional steps describe how to upload to OneDrive if you would like to store your files there for future potential use. If media files on Kaltura are unplayed for an extended period of time, they will eventually be deleted automatically according to the Kaltura Media Retention guidelines. If you would like to delete your media manually, see instructions here.
Downloading and Archiving Media from My Media Library
These instructions describe the steps required to access and download the source MP4 file for a video entry in your Kaltura Media Library. Once you have downloaded your MP4 file, you can store that file on your PC for local use or upload to Microsoft OneDrive for archival purposes. Should you need to reshare or republish that video in the future, you can re-upload the MP4 file to Kaltura as a new entry.
Downloading the Source File for a Video in your Kaltura Media Library
This process assumes you are the video owner or have "Edit" priviliges.
- Login to Kaltura using MediaSpace or Blackboard/Kaltura My Media.
- Browse or search your library for the entry you want to download. You can search by the title or using the Entry ID if you have it. Click the title to open the media page.
- At the bottom right corner of the video, Click Actions and choose Edit.
- While in Edit mode, at the top right corner of your video, click the small Download button to begin the MP4 download.
- The MP4 file will download to your default browser download location.
Alternative Method to Download Source Video
In some cases, the download icon may be hidden or inaccessible. Fortunately, you can instead enable public downloads and use that workflow to download the video.
- Login to Kaltura using MediaSpace or Blackboard/Kaltura My Media.
- Browse or search your library for the entry you want to download. You can search by the title or using the Entry ID if you have it. Click the title to open the media page.
- At the bottom right corner of the video, Click Actions and choose Edit.
- On the Edit page, go to the Downloads tab, select the checkbox for Source and click the Save button.
- Click the Go To Media link to view the video.
- On the Media page, go to the Downloads tab and click the Download icon in the Actions column.
- The MP4 file will download to your default browser download location.
- Login to OneDrive
- Navigate to the OneDrive folder where you want to store your downloaded media
- Click Upload, then Files, then select the media files(s) you downloaded. You can select multiple files at once by holding the CTRL key while clicking on them.
- Click Open.
- The files will be uploaded to OneDrive.