Uploading Videos with the Media Module

You can use the Media module to upload a single video, or multiple videos in a batch. Your video files can use most available file formats; if your files are not already encoded as VP6 (FLV - Flash video) or H.264, Brightcove transcodes them into one of those formats.

In addition to the Media module, Brightcove provides these other methods of uploading videos into your Media Library:

• FTP batch provisioning
• the Media API

To upload videos using the Media module:

1. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Upload Videos.

   

   Select one or more video files that you want to upload. The Upload dialog displays:
   
   

   



2. To upload more videos than the ones you have selected, click Add More Files.
3. Under Display Name, the Upload dialog lists the file names of your videos (without the file extension). You can edit the display name for the video here if you want it to be something other than the file name.
4. By default, all videos are active as soon as they are uploaded and processed by Brightcove's servers. Under Status, you can specify whether the video should initially be active or inactive, or click Deactivate All to specify that none of the videos you upload should initially be active.
5. Optionally, in the Add Tags to All field, enter one or more tags, separated by commas. You can use tags to add videos to smart playlists. As you enter a new tag, autocomplete suggestions appear, based on tags you're already using for other videos in your account.
6. Optionally, click Edit Settings to set the multi-bitrate streaming transcoding options for your videos.

   

   In the Upload Settings dialog, you can select multiple renditions or a single rendition. If you select multiple renditions, Brightcove automatically takes your video file and transcodes it into six different FLV or H.264 files, each with different resolution and bit rate. Note that this option is not available if all of the video files you're uploading are already in FLV format, and any FLV files will not be transcoded into multiple renditions. If you are uploading an H.264 file, you have the option of retaining the original file as an additional rendition. For more information about multi-bitrate streaming, see Using multi-bitrate streaming.
7. Click Start Upload to add the files to your Brightcove Media Library.

While your files are uploading, the Media module displays a list of the files and their status. During the upload process, you can drag and drop files to change the order they will be processed in, or click X to cancel the upload.

Once your initial upload is complete, the new video is displayed in the Media module in the All Videos and the Recently Uploaded views, with this icon to indicate that the video is still processing:

Click the refresh button to update the status of the videos you uploaded:

Once Brightcove has completed processing your video, including transcoding any multi-bitrate streaming renditions, the Media module displays the video with its thumbnail image or, if it has no thumbnail image, this generic image:

Video file requirements and transcoding

Your videos must not larger than 2 GB and must be in one of the following file formats:

Any video files that aren't FLV or H.264 will be transcoded into FLV or H.264.