Editing Video Properties with the Media Module

Applies to Roles
Publisher
Version
Brightcove 4
Modules
Media Module
Edition
Express, Pro, Enterprise

You can edit video properties in the Media module. You can edit the properties of a single video, or select multiple videos and edit them together (up to 100 videos at the same time).

Editing video properties

To edit the properties of a video:

  1. In the All Videos workspace, select the videos you want to edit and click Edit in the action toolbar.
  2. From the menu, select the type of properties to edit:

Changes you make to a video's properties apply globally to all instances of that video, in every playlist.

To edit the properties of several videos at once, select all of the videos you want to edit and click Edit in the action item toolbar. Be careful, however: any edits you make will apply to all of the videos you selected.

Alternately, click the up arrow on the Edit button to jump directly to a particular set of video properties (Basic Presentation, Economics & Distribution, Scheduling & Geo Filtering, or Logo Overlay). You can also click on the Edit link or icon for the property in the Details pane to open that video property in the editor. Note that when you initiate an edit from the Details pane, you edit only the video presented in the Details pane, even if you have more than one video selected in the data grid.

Editing Basic Presentation

In the Edit Video: Basic Presentation edit page, you can select the property to edit by clicking its checkbox or clicking in the field. Selected properties are highlighted for easy reference. You can edit or add:

  • The video name (no more than 255 characters).
  • A short description (no more than 250 characters).
  • A long description (no more than 5000 characters).
  • A related link (a standard web URL, beginning with http:// or https://) and link text (each no more than 255 characters).
  • A reference ID (no more than 150 characters). A unique ID assigned by a publisher to a video or playlist. The reference ID (ref id) is distinct from the video ID or playlist ID (lineupID), which are unique IDs generated by Brightcove. The reference ID enables coordination between Brightcove and other services, such as a publisher's content management system. Note that you can't batch edit the reference ID, since you never want two videos to have the same reference ID.
  • One or more tags, separated by commas. You can use tags to add videos to smart playlists, or to find videos using the Media API. As you enter a new tag, autocomplete suggestions appear, based on tags in use for other videos in your account. You can remove existing tags by clicking the x next to the tag's name, or click Clear all to remove all tags from the video.

    Each tag can be no longer than 64 characters. If you enter a tag longer than 64 characters, it will be truncated to 64 characters. A video can have no more than a total of 1200 tags.
  • Video still. Click Select Image to select the video still image to use. If you already have a video still for this video, the Change button is displayed instead. The file picker displays all the files in your account whose file type has been set to video still. You can choose an existing image or upload new images from the file picker. Click the trash can icon to remove an image already assigned. Note that clicking the trash can icon only removes the assignment of the image to this video; it does not delete the image asset from your Media Library. See Capturing Still Images from Videos for information about how to create a video still using the Media module.
  • Thumbnail image. Click Select Image to select the thumbnail image to use. If you already have a thumbnail for this video, the Change button is displayed instead. The file picker displays all the files in your account whose file type has been set to thumbnail. You can choose an existing image or upload new images from the file picker. Click the trash can icon to remove a thumbnail image already assigned. Note that clicking the trash can icon only removes the assignment of the image to this video; it does not delete the image asset from your Media Library. See Capturing Still Images from Videos for information about how to create a thumbnail image using the Media module.

When you have finished editing the Basic Presentation properties, either click Save & Close, or select one of Economics & Distribution, Scheduling & Geo-filtering, or Logo Overlay to edit more properties.

Editing Economics and Distribution

If your Brightcove account has advertising enabled, you can use the Edit Video: Economics & Distribution page to define the advertising and distribution policies for the video and set a bumper.

Economic model

You can choose whether or not ads may be shown when viewers watch the selected video(s). If you allow ads to be shown, you can also force an ad request for the selected videos.

Note: You can also configure these settings from the Advertising module. It is important to understand that the selections you make in Media module have the same effect on your videos as the selections made in the Advertising module, and vice versa. The Advertising settings are shared (i.e. they are the same settings) regardless of which module you set them from. You can view or edit these settings in either of the two modules. If you make a change to these settings in one module, that change will be reflected in the other module.

You can edit ad policies for videos and players in the Advertising module.

Bumper

You can set a bumper to roll before the selected videos.

  • If the selected videos don't currently have a bumper assigned, click Add Video to upload a new bumper.
  • If the selected videos do currently have a bumper assigned, click Change Video to assign a new bumper
  • Click the trash can icon to remove a bumper already assigned.

Distribution options

You can choose to enable viral distribution. Viral distribution allows your viewers to syndicate individual videos from your players and is a necessary setting to enable the "get code" button in the player.

Note that enabling advertising and ad key/value pairs can also be set at the player level, using the Advertising module. For more information, see Setting Ad Policies for Players. Bumpers can also be set at the player level, using the Publishing module. For more information, see Editing Settings for Players with the Publishing Module.

Editing Scheduling and Geo-Filtering

Video scheduling and geo-filtering are not available for Brightcove Express customers. If you are interested in upgrading your Brightcove account, please contact Brightcove for more information.

Schedule the availability of a video by selecting a start date, an end date, or both. You can, for example, choose to have a video be available indefinitely, starting at a specific date and time. By default, videos have no scheduling information and are available indefinitely when they are active. Scheduling times are in Eastern Standard Time, unless we have identified your Brightcove account as Japan-based, in which case users of the Brightcove Studio will see date and time scheduling information in Japan Standard Time (JST), rather than Eastern Standard Time.

If your Brightcove account has geo-filtering enabled, you can specify that a video is only available in limited geographic areas. Read more about geo-filtering videos.

Editing Logo Overlays

Logo overlays display a logo in the corner of the video player window. Optionally, your logo overlay can link to a web site you specify. In the Edit Video: Logo Overlays page, when you enable using a logo overlay, you can edit:

  • Logo image. The image file to use for your logo overlay. The logo overlay image file must be a transparent PNG or GIF file. The image you use for your overlay should be at 100% scale when viewed in a 480x360 video player window and will be scaled proportionately to fit smaller videos. Click the link in the Media module to download a Photoshop template that can help you create your own logo overlay image. For more information, see Creating Logo Overlays.
  • Logo URL. If viewers click on your logo overlay, they are sent to this URL.
  • Logo tooltip. If viewers move their mouse over your logo overlay, this text is displayed as a tooltip.
  • Logo alignment. Where the logo overlay is positioned in the player. Select one of: bottom right (the default), bottom left, top right, or top left.

Logo overlays can be set at the account level using the Brightcove Console. If you have a logo overlay set at the account level and also set a logo overlay for a video, the logo overlay set for the video will display and the account level logo overlay will not display.

Swapping Video Files

Each of your videos has at least one video file. (It may have more than one if you are using multi-bitrate streaming.) After you have created a video, you might want to replace the video file.

To change a video's video file:

  1. Select the video and open its Edit Video screen.
  2. Select Video Files. The Edit Video: Video Files edit screen displays information (file name, encoding rate, duration, asset ID, upload status, upload date, codec, asset reference ID, delivery type, and the video's URL) about the video files associated with this video, including all of the multi-bitrate streaming renditions, if any. You can click the Preview link to view the video files. For progressive download videos (but not for streaming (FMS) videos), you can get the direct URL of a video file by clicking Copy link under Rendition URL. This copies to your clipboard the URL to download the video file. This can be useful if you want to download a copy of your video file.

  3. In the Edit Video: Video Files edit screen, click Change File and select the new video file you want to use to replace the existing video file.
  4. The Media module displays all of the video files (FLV and H.264) that already exist in your Brightcove Media Library:

    If the video file you want to use to replace the existing file already exists in your Media Library, select it and click Select. Otherwise, click Upload and upload a new FLV file from your local file system. In this release, we support upload of FLV files only from this screen.

Note that when you replace a video file, you delete any cue points you might previously have set and any multi-bitrate streaming renditions for the video.

Activating, deactivating, and deleting

To activate or deactivate a video, select the video and click Activate or Deactivate button in the action toolbar. You can select one video at a time, or you can select multiple videos to activate or deactivate. The icons to the left of the video in the Media Library identify whether it is active or not. A video that is not active remains in your Media Library and in any playlists it is part of, but cannot be played in any player.

To delete a video from the Media Library, select the video and click Delete in the action toolbar. At the prompt, click Delete. You can delete one or many videos at the same time.

Editing video properties in the Details pane

You can also access the edit page for a video's properties in the Details pane.

Click Edit or the adjacent icon to edit:

  • short description
  • tags
  • related link
  • economics
  • scheduling
  • countries
  • reference ID

Note that:

  • When you initiate an edit from the Details pane, you edit only the video presented in the Details pane, even if you have more than one video selected in the data grid.
  • Not all properties are editable for all accounts; for example, you can edit countries only if you have geo-filtering enabled for your account and economics only if you have advertising enabled for your account.

 

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