The Video Center lets you upload an unlimited number of pre-recorded videos up to 8GB each and add closed captions in over 30 languages, powered by our built-in captioning and translation solution, Webex Events Closed Captions & Translations. 🎊 Recordings from your Webex Events Production Studio live streams are also automatically added to the Video Center's 'Recordings' page.

Any video easily embeds in Sessions, Live Stream features, speaker, sponsor, and exhibitor profiles, and Custom List items as Simulive or Video on Demand (VOD) content!

Simulive is a combination of the words "simulated" and "live". Simply put, it means pre-recorded video presented at a specific time as if it were live content. Attendees must join the stream at the right time to watch the whole video, and they may not realize the content isn't live unless you tell them. 🤫

Video on demand is pre-recorded video that always starts at the beginning, and viewers can access it at their leisure.

The Video Center tab is available after you publish your Event App. Before you upload a video, here are a few considerations to keep in mind:

In your Event navigation bar under ‘Event App’, click Video Center. This opens the Uploads page. Click New Item.

In the modal that appears, enter a File Title that clearly identifies the video and helps you easily find it when adding it to a Session or a Live Stream feature. Next, click the Browse button to select the video file you want to upload from your computer.

Activate Captions & Translations to have Webex Events Closed Captions & Translations automatically generate captions and translations in over 30 languages. Closed captions and translations become available when Video Center content is added to a feature or item. Attendees can activate captions synced to your video content in their selected language wherever they find Video Center content!

Once you select the video, click Upload, and the modal will close. As a video uploads, continue to queue more files for upload if needed. The Status column shows whether the video is Queued, Complete, or Uploading/Converting.

Videos with closed captions turned on display a 'CC' icon next to the File Title.

Click the Settings (⋯) icon next to a video to take one of several actions, depending on its status. The following table shows the available actions for each status:

After you click 'End broadcast' in the Webex Events Production Studio, the recording of that awesome live stream starts processing. Click the Video Center's 'Recordings' tab to access recordings.

Recordings are listed chronologically, and their titles are based on the Session or Live Stream feature name, followed by the year, month, and day they were created. Refer to the 'Date Created' column to easily identify different recordings from the same Session or Live Stream feature.

Click the Settings (⋯) icon next to a recording to take one of several actions, depending on its status. The following table shows the available actions for each status:

Recordings usually take about a quarter of your live stream's duration to process. So if your live stream was 40 minutes, the recording should be available about 10 minutes after you end the stream.

When a recording is ready, a notification with a download link appears. Once a recording's status shows 'Complete', you're ready to use the recording in any of the locations discussed in the following sections of this article!

Let's briefly explore each place in Webex Events that supports Video Center content.

When you create a Session or Live Stream feature, select 'Webex Events Simulive' as the stream provider or 'Webex Events Video on Demand' as the recording provider.

After selecting Webex Events Simulive from the 'Stream provider' field, select the Video File to be played, then set a Streaming Time at which the video will begin playing. If the video you selected was uploaded to Video Center with Closed Captions activated, the 'Enable Closed Captions' toggle is automatically active with 'Webex Events Closed Captions & Translations' as the provider.

To add a recording to a Session or Live Stream feature, select Webex Events Video on Demand as the recording provider, then select a video from the 'Video File' drop-down. Video files are sorted into 'Uploads' and 'Recordings' sections in the drop-down. All videos uploaded to Video Center with closed captions turned on display a CC icon.

Remember to click Save Changes when you're done!

If you're using Webex Events Simulive with a Session, you'll notice a Simulive Status next to it in the Session list. Statuses include Scheduled, Started, Ended, and Failed.

Each of these features is very similar, and the process for using Simulive or Video on Demand with them is the same no matter which one you're using.

When you add or edit a feature item, you can select a content provider that embeds content or links to an external source. Select Webex Events Video on Demand to choose a file you've uploaded to Video Center or a recording from the Webex Events Production Studio.

After making any other changes to the item, click Save Changes. It's that simple! For a complete overview of using any of these features, refer to the following links:

Now let's explore the attendee experience.

Just like with the Webex Events Production Studio, the 'Join Live Stream' button appears in the Agenda Session 15 minutes before the Streaming Time. For a complete overview of the attendee experience with Session live streaming, refer to our article about the Agenda feature.

With the Live Stream feature, the Simulive video will simply begin playing at the chosen Streaming Time. For more information about the attendee experience with the Live Stream feature, refer to our Live Stream feature guide.

Attendees who join a Session after the Simulive video starts can't play the video from the beginning. For example, if the Streaming Time is 1pm and an attendee joins the live stream at 1:05pm, they'll have missed the first five minutes.

When an attendee clicks on a feature item in the web version of the Event App, the Video On Demand content appears embedded in the middle of the screen with a sidebar showing all the other content you added to the profile. Attendees simply click on the video to play it. On the Mobile App, attendees tap the 'Video' button to open and play Video on Demand content in their device's default web browser.

You'll want insight on how many people watched your stream and maybe even who watched and for how long. With Webex Events Simulive, you get the same data goodies you would with Webex Events Production Studio and the Webex Events RTMP player.

From your Event App's Metrics page, click the Export Report button and select the Video Analytics option to download the report. For more information about the data included in the Video Analytics export, read our Event App Metrics article.

Now you know all about the Video Center, Webex Events Simulive, and Video on Demand! Why not learn about using pre-recorded video in your live streams?