Clipchamp’s brand kit: simplifying consistent video creation for organizations
Empowering our users to tell stories worth sharing lies at the heart of what we do at Clipchamp, and in a world increasingly focused on enterprise narratives, it’s become clear that these stories are often needed to help communicate the ethos of a brand. That’s why we’re excited to share more about our refreshed brand kit feature, designed to improve organizational branding capabilities within our video editor. With this update you now can organize a comprehensive collection of video elements—like logos, colors, and fonts—into a brand kit, for your teams and organizations to apply to any video. Whether it's an internal team meeting recording or a ‘how-to' video showcasing new product features, users and organizations can easily ensure that their brand identity is represented correctly, every time. Our brand kit empowers admins and brand managers to collate approved assets and share brand kits across global teams, ensuring that visual standards are consistent across the board, and across the world. GIF of Microsoft Clipchamp Brand kit and the branded elements it supports This ability to ensure that assets are uniform means that consistent content is now achievable at scale, helping to bolster the clarity of messaging for large enterprises, while leveraging a familiar and easy-to-use interface that doesn’t require extensive video editing experience. The flexibility and ease of uploading branding elements to your brand kit means that you can ensure not only the clarity of the message, but also its aesthetic and creative presentation with images, music, graphics and more. By the end of March 2025, brand managers and admins will be able to leverage template generation as well, allowing their teams to create foundational branded projects that can be easily replicated, modified, and reused. Brand consistency across your organization Organizations in today’s digital-first world understand the critical importance of consistent messaging and visuals in maintaining a cohesive brand narrative, for both internal and external communications. With Clipchamp's brand kit feature, ensuring uniformity of content is now easier than ever. "Knowing that all our content is aligned with our brand guidelines - whether it's the logo, fonts, colors, or even the music - gives us total confidence in the product. It saves time and helps every team member, no matter their design skills, to produce professional, on-brand videos." Paul Burke, Head of Global Brand at Amadeus. Once set up, your brand kit integrates directly into Clipchamp, appearing by default for all users in your organization. This eliminates the need for manual uploads or version control headaches. To get started, here are the steps below. If you want a deeper dive into creating and sharing brand kits across your organization, check out more details here 1. Select an existing SharePoint site or create a new site to host the brand kits This can be any type of site, such as a communication site, a team site that's connected to a Microsoft 365 Group, or a modern team site that isn't connected to a Microsoft 365 Group. Then, add the people you want to be able to upload files as members or owners of the site or Microsoft 365 Group. 2. Use PowerShell to designate the document library as org asset type BrandKitLibrary Ensure you have SharePoint PowerShell client versions >= 24830.12754 or download the most recent. Run the cmdlets in a PowerShell terminal. Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourorg-admin.sharepoint.com/ -Credential admin@yourorg.onmicrosoft.com (The parameter -Url points to the admin site.) Configure the new Document Library as Org Asset Type: BrandKitLibrary Add-SPOOrgAssetsLibrary -OrgAssetType BrandKitLibrary -LibraryUrl https://yourorg.sharepoint.com/sites/BrandGuide/brandkit In the above example "BrandGuide" is the SharePoint site and "brandkit" is the document library name. 3. Create a brand kit and add media within Clipchamp Select the 'Brand kit' section in the left side panel and select 'Create brand kit'. Choose the folder you designated as a BrandKitLibrary in the previous step. You may wish to share the brand kit to collaborate with colleagues on populating assets. To share the brand kit while preparing it, select "Share brand kit". Provide recipients with the link and ensure they have edit access. Sharing consistent assets across different locations ensures that every video being shared looks on-brand and reinforces brand recognition, no matter where it’s seen. Plus, we’ve made sharing brand kits simple by using familiar OneDrive patterns. That way, users don’t have to interact with unfamiliar technologies—just seamless access to everything you need, so you can stay focused on creating professional, polished content. Add a wide range of your media assets A screenshot of a video editing project in Clipchamp, with the brand kit panel open The brand kit feature in Clipchamp allows for a broad range of assets to be uploaded, ensuring that users can express their brand narrative through a variety of media. Clipchamp supports an array of branding elements, including logos, colors, fonts, images videos, graphics, music, and sound effects. A screenshot of a video editing project in Clipchamp, with the brand kit panel open. The cursor hovers over the 'Add colors' section, while logos, fonts, and images are also displayed There is a strong case for adding branded elements to enterprise content: it helps to easily generate a strong brand identity, while building trust with your audience, and maintaining a professional lens on content production. Clipchamp also allows users to upload multiple branding options, so you can add your primary and secondary color palettes, or light and dark design schemes. Feedback We are so excited to bring users some new additions to brand kit and would love to hear feedback around the organizational sharing experiences. Please head to this link to share with us your insights or feedback, so we can continue to create the best possible experiences for our users.Tracking Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update changes in Microsoft Purview Audit
The Cloud Policy service and cloud update are features in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center designed to keep your devices managed and up to date. As keeping the Microsoft 365 Apps current and configured according to organizational standards, there might be times you need to track down when a certain change was implemented or by whom. Based on customer feedback, we are happy to announce that you can now track and audit changes in the Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update using Microsoft Purview auditing solutions if enabled. For Cloud Policy service, this includes changes to the policy configuration, such as name, description, priority, and individual policy settings. For Cloud Update, it covers changes to the profile's configuration, tenant-wide settings (e.g., device exclusions), and actions triggered for devices. Additionally, among other things, the date, time, and user account making the change are recorded. This blog post shows you how to use Purview Audit to review changes in mentioned services. We will cover two methods: using the Purview user interface as well as using PowerShell. Both require Purview auditing enabled, access to the Purview portal, and specific permissions to search and view the audit log. Microsoft Purview portal One option is to use the Microsoft Purview portal to search for recorded activities. After signing in, navigate to Audit Search. Create a search for activities using either friendly names, operation names, or any combination of these. Refer to our documentation for a comprehensive list of Cloud Policy service activities and Cloud Update activities along with their respective names. After completing the search, you can review the list of results and examine each item. The data points include date, time, user account associated with the change, and audit data that contains the specific change. The above example shows the AuditData for an UpdatedPolicyOperation. It includes details like the policy configuration’s name, description, and targeted groups. Additionally, it lists three new policies with their PolicyID, names, and set values. Full schema descriptions are available for Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update, listing all values used by it, including a description and any custom enumerations. Microsoft PowerShell Microsoft PowerShell can also be utilized to connect to the Purview service and execute audit searches. After configuration, the Search-UnifiedAuditLog command can be employed to conduct searches and display results on the console or pipe them into files. The example above displays the results of an Audit log search for a Cloud Update event. In this case, the audit captured changes to tenant-wide settings concerning configured Exclusion windows and device exclusions. It details the names, settings, specific start, and end dates, as well as the user account who made the change and the time it was made. Similar to the Microsoft Purview portal, the results use specific schemas for Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update. Additional Resources For more information about Purview Audit see Learn about auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview For more information about using Search in the Purview Audit portal see Search the Purview Audit log. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 For additional information about the Cloud Update service, refer to Overview of cloud update for Microsoft 365 Apps A full list of tracked activities is available for both Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update. For more information on the schemas used, refer to Office 365 Management Activity API schema. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 Tech Community! Whether you have product questions or just want to stay informed with the latest updates on new releases, tools, and blogs, Microsoft 365 Tech Community is your go-to resource to stay connected!Configure forms and rules in Microsoft Lists
Going beyond the out-of-box experience doesn’t always require coding or separate tools. With Microsoft Lists, you can further customize forms and notifications with a few clicks, or a copy/paste of JSON code. Both capabilities are now rolling out into Microsoft 365.Empower your organization to achieve more with the Accessibility Baseline
Do you ever wonder as an IT admin, "How can I empower and enable my users with disabilities and our workforce to be better A11y's?" Your solution has arrived. We welcome you to try the Accessibility Baseline to enable Accessibility group policies across your whole tenant or specific groups the choice is yours.New ways to discover Microsoft Graph connector content securely across Microsoft 365
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