Hi
We are thinking of going with EE+ (or viper as I have also heard this is called.) What does it offer for this user need:
"As a content editor, I would like to upload video to web pages."
I have seen an upload option in EE for video, which accepts various formats. Is there any youtube like compression magic goes on during the upload? Also how does a content editor put the video on the page, and what video player is used, is it a Squiz javascript video player?
Thanks,
Gavin
Hey Gavin
At the moment there are two options, both of which are a little clunky until we build an insert video plugin to make it easier for users. It is in our roadmap for future development.
1. For videos stored in the CMS, you can use the creation wizard to upload the video files. And then simple HTML5 tags to display/play it. Or (if not comfortable with HTML5) can be displayed using a 3rd party JavaScript Video/Audio player, which Squiz have best practice implementation standards around.
Or
2. Grab the chunk of code from remote provides e.g. Vimeo, Youtube and paste it into view source.
Both require switching into view source mode and adding some code. #2 is much easier, faster, cleaner and does not requiring tweaking of code once pasted. I don't advise the use of #1 unless you are only really storing a few and don't expect too many people to view them. Let another system, built for video management, do all the heavy lifting.
What I've done is use a data record to represent each video on Vimeo etc. I set up a "Vimeo" set of metadata, which basically has one field to hold the unique ID for that video. Then I have a paint layout associated with the data record that has all the necessary embed code and just uses a keyword to stick in the unique ID in the right place. I like this solution as it means you still have a specific asset in Squiz that represents the video even though its actual file is stored elsewhere and secondly you dont have to put the embed code directly in all the places its needed. So if they change their embed code one day you only have to change it one place.