Answer Video

Overview

The Answer Video represents the answer of a Candidate for a given Question.

For example: if a Project has 4 questions, each Candidate will show 1 Answer Video to address each one of the Questions.

Such video is recorded through the Candidate interface, after a Candidate accepts the invitation for such interview.

Workflow

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Relevant fields

filename

The field “filename” includes the path for an MPEG4 file (or another supported format).

video_conversion_status

Warning

This field is not available in production yet

The field video_conversion_status indicates which is current status regarding to video conversion. As the interview suite supports different file formats (MPEG4 and Flash), since the video is recorded it takes a few minutes to be available as a valid file, so the status indicates what is current state.

Valid statuses:

recording Initial conversion status, before conversion process starts.
converting Status set when conversion process starts and kept until it ends.
failed In case something goes wrong during conversion, it’s set to this status.
successful After conversion process, this the new status, which turns video playing available for allowed users.