Videos

This article explains how to add videos to the Homepage or any Page in your Newsroom. It covers how to create a Video module, upload or embed videos, manage captions, adjust display settings, and embed a video directly in the article text.

Table of contents

• Adding Videos to the Homepage or a Page
• Uploading or embedding a video
• Managing video display settings
• Adding captions to an uploaded video
• Setting a custom video start time or thumbnail

Adding Videos to the Homepage or a Page

You can add videos to the Homepage or to any individual Page in your Newsroom.

1. Go to the Newsroom dropdown and select Homepage, or go to Pages and select the Page you want to edit.

   

2. In the sidebar, open the Multimedia dropdown and choose Videos.
    

   

3. Click Add module to add a Video module.
    

   

4. Click Select asset(s) to open the Asset Manager.

   

5. In the Asset manager select the videos to add to the Videos module or add new videos by selecting Upload items.
6. Click Select to save the selected videos to the Videos module.

Uploading or embedding a video

In the Asset Manager, you can either embed a video from an external platform or upload a video file from your computer.

In the Asset manager select Upload items

• To embed a video from platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo
  1. In the video platform, copy the share link
  2. Paste the URL in the URL/embedcode field and click Save.
• To upload a video file
  1. Select Upload Video File, select the video or videos from your computer, and click Save. Only .mp4 files are supported.
      

After saving, the video appears in the Asset Manager. Select one or more videos and click Select to add them to the Video module.

Managing video display settings

After selecting your videos, choose how they should be displayed in the Video module.

• Display video module title - Next to the title field, check Show title on the Page to make it visible for visitors.
• Display mode - Choose how the videos will be displayed.

  • Default - Videos appear in a static row in the order they were added. 

    

  • Gallery - Videos appear in a horizontal gallery. Control whether the gallery scrolls automatically by checking the option Scroll automatic.

• Display captions - Make the title and/or description visible to the visitors by checking the options. The title and description can be edited via the Asset manager.
• Change video order - Drag and drop videos within the module to change the order.

Adding captions to an uploaded video

Captions improve accessibility and support multilingual Newsrooms.

1. In the Asset Manager, click the gear icon next to the video to open its settings. Scroll to the Caption(s) section.

2. Upload one caption file in .VTT format per language.

   

Setting a custom video start time or thumbnail

Manage start time for embedded videos

When embedding videos from external platforms, the thumbnail is managed on the hosting platform.

For example, on YouTube you can generate a link that starts the video at a specific time. Use the Share option on the video page, select Start at, enter the desired time, and copy the generated link. Paste this link into the Video module.

The thumbnail displayed in the Newsroom will match the thumbnail configured on the external platform.

Edit the thumbnail for uploaded videos

For uploaded videos the thumbnail can be changed in the video settings:

1. In the Asset Manager, click the gear icon next to the video to open its settings. Select Edit thumbnail.
2. In the Edit thumbnail screen select by moving the dot on the progress bar to the preferred time.
3. Select Save to confirm the new thumbnail