Record your live session or upload videos to create On-Demand webinars that are available for attendees to watch anytime from your channel
On-Demand webinars give your audience a constantly available source of content, your business a consistent flow of new leads, and connect with your audience no matter when and where they're watching. Whether you are recording a live webinar or uploading content directly, creating and managing on-demand webinars is simple and powerful.
How to Create an On-Demand Webinar
Creating an on-demand webinar from scratch
1. On the Host Dashboard, select Create a Webinar.
2. Select the On Demand Webinar type and fill out the webinar details.
3. Fill out the basic webinar details and upload your selected .mp4 file. Click Create Webinar to complete.
Note: The maximum upload is 4GB
4. After you create the webinar, you'll proceed to your webinar dashboard, which looks similar to the live webinar dashboard, but with some setting missing, and other replacing it. Most importantly, you'll see a preview of the on-demand webinar in the BigMarker video player in the middle of the dashboard. From here you can watch the video and customize the player.
Creating an on-demand webinar from a live webinar
All live webinars can be converted into on-demand webinars whether you record them or upload a new video to it. This allows you to gather registration for a live session, then provide resources and extend communication to those existing registrants while still offering the content to new registrants.
When you create and present in a live session, you'll want to make sure it's being recorded. You can either manually record this, or set the webinar to auto-record to make it simple. Once the webinar has ended, the dashboard for the live webinar will transform into the unpublished on-demand state that we saw above.
If your webinar was not recorded, you can still convert it into an on-demand webinar. One the dashboard click Convert to On-demand. From here you can either select a video that was pre-loaded into the webinar, or choose to upload a new file.
Publishing the on-demand webinar
By default, the webinar will start as Unpublished. In this state, no guest or registered users will be able to see the video. This way you can ensure that everything is set correctly before making your content viewable. Once you're ready to publish, simply click on the button in the Manage Recording settings. Once you do, you'll get a prompt where you can decide who should get the recording published email, if you already have registrants.
What settings are available for my on-demand webinar?
Customizing the player
The BigMarker webinar player has many options, features and design elements that you can configure to exactly what you need. For more detailed information on how to do that, click here.
Captions
Unlike live webinars, you can upload your own transcript files for closed captions inside of the video. Click here for more information on how to set that up.
Embed your webinar
Oftentimes you might want the BigMarker video player to be embedded on another page, whether it's on another BigMarker page or elsewhere on the internet. Get the embed code quickly by clicking on Copy Embed Code.
