How to Publish a Video/Movie?

When you click on Content on the left navigation menu, a sub-menu opens up which lists:

1. Movies/Videos (Based on the niche you choose)
2. Series/Playlists (Based on the niche you choose)
3. Media Library

Movies/Videos are suitable for individual content. When you click on it, you will land on a page named ‘Movie List’/’Video List’, based on the niche you have selected for your business. This is where you will see all your uploaded movies/videos listed once you start uploading them and publishing or saving them as draft. You can switch the list between Published and Drafts, and sort the list to show either the latest or the oldest content to show.

Note: When we say movie/video, we do not mean just the video file which you upload from your device on to your business content management system (CMS), but along with the uploaded file, its description, thumbnails, cover image, and other details that show up on your video streaming app.

How to Publish Movies/Videos

Once you are on the Movie List page:

• Click on Create Movie/Create Video button
• You will now be at the Create Movie page

Adding a video/media file to the movie/video

• Click on ‘Select a file’ to add a video file, either from your device or from your Skara media library, to this Movie/Video
• If you are adding a video file from your device, click on the ‘Upload media’ button
• You will see a pop-up box, click on ‘Select from device’
• Now you can select a video file from your device’s storage to add to your movie/video
• The file from your device’s storage will be selected.
• Now select the resolution you want the video to be available for your subscribers. You must select at least one resolution to upload the file into your Skara business
• Once you choose one or more resolution by clicking on the tick box, click on Upload
• You will see the video/media file is uploaded, encoded and processed in our cloud services
• While uploading is in progress, kindly do not close the browser tab or the window as that can affect your video from being successfully uploaded. You can however do anything you want on the app during that time-like filling in the rest of the information, while the video is being uploaded, encoded and processed
• Once the file is uploaded, it will show up as a listed item in the Media library pop-up when you click on ‘Select a file’
• Click on the video name, to add it
• Once it is added, you will see the ‘Select a file’ button being replaced by ‘Change the file’ and an additional option to ‘Preview’ the video. Previewing can help you in case you want to double-check if you added the correct file or not

Now that the video file is added, let’s proceed to the next step of filling in the description and other details.

Entering movie/video details

• After or during your video/media file is added to the movie/video, you will have to give the movie or video title by filling in the Movie Name/ Video Name input boxThis will be the name shown on your video streaming app and website. Your subscribers will see only this name and not the name of the uploaded media/video file
• Next, fill in the short description. This is limited at 160 characters so that the look and feel of your video streaming website and app is consistent.
• Fill in the full description of the video and try to give as much information as you can so that search engines can index your page and understand what your video is about. The character count is limited at 450.
• Now upload a Thumbnail for your video.

You can add up to 4 images as Thumbnail for your movie/video. These will automatically slide on your app and website.

If you choose multiple images, click on ‘Set as default’ under the image to assign that image as the first image that shows on your app and website.

This should be an image in either jpg, jpeg, png or svg format. The image ratio should ideally be in portrait-mode with its length being at least 1.4 times of the width. For best results, you can use A4 ratios. The maximum file size for this image is 1MB.

• Next upload the cover image for your movie/video. This is the vertically laid out image which will show on the movie/video detail page and on the banner space of your app and website.

You can add up to 4 cover images.

Just like thumbnail, choose one of the images to make it the default image to show on the app and website.

This should be an image in either jpg, jpeg, png or svg format. The image ratio should ideally be in landscape-mode with its width being at least 1.4 times of the height. The maximum file size for this image is 1MB.

• Next you may upload a media file which can be trailer for your movie/video. This video must be in MP4 format and the maximum size should not exceed 50MB. This is optional and you can skip this step in case you do not have a trailer to upload or having a trailer does not fit your requirement.
• Now choose the language of the video.We have added a couple of language tags which show up when you click on the drop down. If you do not see your language their, simply type in the name of your language and click on Add. That language will be added to the video. You can add multiple language names.
• Next enter tags related to your video/movie.Example: If the video is about ‘How to learn a language’, you can add tags like ‘Language’ ‘Language learning’ ‘Language skill’ etc. Basically anything that can help your subscribers to find it while searching for something related to it on your video application
• In the next section, enter the credits for the people involved in or who helped your video. This is where you can mention the actors/cinematographers etc. To add more than one person and designation, click on Add More. You can add as many people as you want.
• The next section is for anything or anyone else if you want to mention beyond credits like movie rating etc. This is an optional field and you can publish without even filling this fields.

Finally, publishing your video/movie

• Now that you have filled in all necessary information, click on ‘Publish’ to make the movie/video available on your video streaming app or website. If you want it ready to publish but not publish it immediately, you can save the file as a draft by clicking on the ‘Save as Draft’ button.
• When you click on Publish, your video/movie will be immediately released on your website and app if you have launched your website and app.

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