Uploading media clips: step-by-step guide
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Content Management
The Online Video Platform is a tool for publishing video and audio. You upload media files by simply dragging and dropping or by selecting a file from your device. Continue reading
While the clips are processed, you update the details, giving them a name, description, keywords, and other details. Then, using a playout (a customized player skin), publish them on your website using an embed code. That, in a nutshell, is the basic workflow. Quick links to get you up and running:
- Need help logging in? Check our our Authentication & Login guide.
- Customise a Playout to fit the look and feel of your site
- Quickly Publish a Clip and Embed it on your site.
- Searching made easy thanks to the Media Clip Search guide.
Quick Start Guide
Media Clip
Uploading, Transcoding and Publishing
1.0 | Uploading Uploading files can be done on the Upload & Transcode tab. There are three ways to upload...Metadata
Increase your video SEO and the efficiency of your video management by adding metadata to your mediaclips. 1.0 | Adding...Assets
Each video or audio media clip that gets uploaded to the online video platform is automatically transcoded (or encoded) to...Thumbnails
A thumbnail gives viewers a quick impression of the content of your video. When uploading a new video, a moving...Subtitles
In this article you will learn how to add subtitles to your videos. Subtitles will greatly benefit viewers who are...Publishing a media clip
The status of the media clip indicates whether or not it is publicly available. The status of a media clip...Embedding a media clip
In this article, we explain how to embed a Media Clip using JavaScript or an iFrame. We also offer advanced...Recommended upload settings & file formats
The Online Video Platform supports an extensive list of video codecs, audio codecs, file formats and containers, listed below. For...
Media Library
Media clip search
The search bar in the Media Library makes it possible to browse through all the files in your account. Search...Using a Worklist
The Blue Billywig Online Video Platform is an excellent tool for managing a large quantity of videos. Use the ‘Worklist’...
Playlists
Video SEO
Video SEO
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Blue Billywig automatically optimises your videos for search engines by injecting schema.org markup (via...Creating a Video Sitemap
A video sitemap is a way of letting search engines know which of your pages contain videos and on which...
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