What happens when you upload a video
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A user uploads a video file: Under Select a Video Source, select Upload. Browse for the video on your machine, select the file, and then click Open.
The video is uploaded to the community and then prepared for storage. You won't be able to publish the video until the process is completed.
Once the video is uploaded, the next processing stage starts. At this time the video is encoded for storage and playback and three thumbnails are auto-generated. You can publish the video even when this stage is not completed; this would not affect the video.
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Add a title and description for the video, selects where it should be published, adds tags and categories – all standard option when you create a content item.
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Next, the user chooses a thumbnail. Under Video Thumbnails, click on one of the available images to be used as the video cover.
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… And the transripts. Under Caption / Transcription Options, choose one of the transcription options:
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Choose No Caption / Transcription if you don't need captions.
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Choose Auto Caption / Transcription if you want to have captions generated and select the original video language from the list.
Note: This functionality is available only under the Enterprise Cloud plan.
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Choose Upload Caption / Transcription File if you want to use prepared caption files in one or several languages. Then upload the caption files marking each with the language it has been designed for.
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The user clicks Publish.
When you click publish, you start the next – complex – stage of the video processing. During this stage, the speech in the video is converted to textand translated to the required languages. Besides that, the video is analyzed to add more context to the video. Processing may take some time; the video duration, the number of captions to be generated, and the general service availability may affect the overall time.
After the processing is finished, the video appears in News and activity feeds. It also becomes searchable: and you can search not only the title and description, but also captions if they are available for the video.