Submitting a video to AWS Elemental
You can submit your videos to Amazon Elemental for editing and enhancements. Before you submit a video to AWS Elemental, plan which features you want to include with the published version, such as transcription, advertisements, and graphical overlays. You need to configure your submission to include the features you need.
Note
AWS Elemental provides the features described in this section. If you do not have or do not want to use an AWS account, you can add these features using a video editor on your own laptop, and then publish the video. For details, see Video.
To submit a video to AWS Elemental:
- In the header, click .
- From the Create list, select Video.
From Provider, select AWS Elemental (Upload).
- Under Files, click .
- From the File list, select New Upload, and browse to the video that you want to upload.
- Using the following table as a reference, complete the fields as needed.
- Click . Brightspot submits the video to Amazon Elemental. Wait until the confirmation message appears that the job is complete.
- Complete your site's workflow and publish the asset.
Video File fields
Click each tab below to see a description of the associated fields. (Some of the fields are available only after you configuring them in Sites & Settings.)
Main
Main
Field | Description |
Provider | Select AWS Elemental (Upload). |
Files | Click Add Video File, and navigate to a video on your local drive. |
Captions | Select Embedded Caption or Sidecar Caption. For information about adding captions to videos, see Adding captions to videos. |
Headline | Enter a headline. This headline is visible to the visitors to your site. |
Sub Headline | Enter a subheadline. This subheadline is visible to the visitors to your site. |
Body | Use the rich-text editor to include text, lists, images, and links to other assets. Text in this field is visible to visitors to your site. For information about using the rich-text editor, see Rich-text editor. |
Preview | Read-only field previewing how the video appears and plays in a visitor's browser. Click to play the video. |
Section | Select the sections associated with this asset. This selection is visible to your visitors. For information about creating a section, see Section. |
Package | Select the package associated with this asset. This selection is not visible to your visitors. |
Tags | Select the tags associated with this asset. This selection is not visible to visitors to your site. For information about creating a tag, see Tag. |
Credit | Name of the videographer. |
Transcript | |
Transcript | By default, this field contains a concatenation of all the transcripts listed in the Metadata > Transcription > Transcripts field. associates the words in the transcript with the asset, so searching on words in the transcript returns the asset in the search results. You can modify the transcript or enter your own. The transcript is not visible to visitors to your site. For more information about transcription, see Amazon Transcribe. |
Usage For videos hosted on AWS Elemental, these setting are ignored. |
Advanced
Field | Description |
Output Settings | |
Transcoding Settings | Select one of the available settings, or click to create one-off settings for this conversion. For information about configuring transcoding settings, see Configuring MediaConvert. |
Overlays | Select or create an image overlay that appears along with the video. |
MediaTailor | |
MediaTailor Configuration | Select one of the available MediaTailor configurations for delivering ads with the video. For more information, see Configuring MediaTailor. |
Transcribe | |
Transcribe Settings | Select one of the available transcription settings. For more information, see Configuring Amazon Transcribe. |
Thumbnails
Field | Description |
Thumbnails | Thumbnails extracted from the video. Click to add additional thumbnails. uses the first thumbnail in the list as the video's preview. |
Outputs
Field | Description |
Outputs | Read-only list of the video transcoded into the configured formats. |
Job
Field | Description |
Job | Read-only field listing the AWS MediaConvert transcoding job. Ops personnel can refer to this job number in the AWS console. |
Promo Overrides
Field | Description |
Promo Title | Enter text to override this asset's title when used in a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title. |
Promo Description | Enter text to override this asset's description when used in a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description. |
Promo Image | Image appearing in the asset's image when the asset is used as a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image. |
Thumbnail | Image representing the video in various widgets, such as the search panel. If blank, defaults to the video's first frame. |
Promo Category | Text appearing in the asset's category when the asset is used as a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new category. |
Promo Category Link | Link associated with the promo category. This field inherits from the selected promo category, and you can override this as needed. |
Share Overrides
Field | Description |
Share Title | Text appearing in the asset's title when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title. |
Share Description | Text appearing in the asset's description when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description. |
Share Image | Image appearing in the asset's image when a visitor shares the asset. automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image. |
Logos & Icons Overrides
Field | Description |
Logo | Select a new image to serve as the logo that displays on this asset. For information about creating a logo, see Image Logo. |
News Publisher Logo | Select a new image to serve as the news publisher logo that displays on this asset. |
Layout Overrides
Field | Description |
Hat | Select one of the options to override the inherited hat. For details, see Creating a hat. |
Header Call To Actions | Select one of the options to override the inherited Header Call To Actions layout block, and create a call to action as appropriate. |
Navigation | Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation. For details, see Creating a navigation. |
Footer | Select one of the options to override the inherited footer. For details, see Creating a footer. |
Above | Select one of the options to override the inherited Above layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
Aside | Select one of the options to override the inherited Aside layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
Below | Select one of the options to override the inherited Below layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
Layout
Field | Description |
Section Navigation | Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation.
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Package Navigation | Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation.
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Site Map
Field | Description |
Change Frequency | Select an option from the list to denote how frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often search engines crawl this asset. See the <changefreq> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format. |
Priority | Enter a value to designate this asset's priority over other URLs on your site. Valid values are 0.0 to 1.0. This allows you to relay to search engines which pages you deem most important for crawlers. For more information, see the <priority> tag definition in Sitemaps XML format. |
Advanced
Field | Description |
Hide from Dynamic Results | Toggle on to prevent this asset from showing up in dynamic list modules. For details, see List module. |
Disabled Features | List of features that are not included in this asset on the front end, such as an action bar. |
Exclude from Search Results | Toggle on to prevent this asset from showing up in search results on your site. |
Advanced
Field | Description |
Transcription
Field | Description |
Transcripts | A list of transcripts associated with this video. One of the transcripts is machine-generated (if this feature is enabled for your version of ). You can modify the transcript, and click Add Transcript to enter your own. The transcript is not visible to visitors to your site. For more information about transcription, see Amazon Transcribe. |
Field | Description |
Timed Companions | Add a list of promos that appear at specific timestamps as visitors play the video. For information about adding companion content to a video, see Creating companion content for audio or video. |
Field | Description |
Title | Text appearing in the asset's <title> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title. |
Suppress SEO Display Name | If toggled on, your site's name will not appear in the <title> tag and subsequently in search results. |
Description | Text appearing in the asset's <meta name="description"> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description. |
Robots | Text appearing in the item’s <meta name="robots"> tag. For an explanation of the available options, see Robots Meta Directives. |
Styles
Video Page Styles
Field | Description |
Preset | Select one of the following:
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Hide Category | Toggle on to hide the categories of the assets included in the list module. |
Aside Placement | Select one of the options, Left or Right, to override the position of an aside layout block. For more information see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
Restricted Video Image | Select an image to display when a visitor attempts to view a restricted video, such as a video requiring a paid subscription. |
The information on this tab presents a graphical or tabular representation of this asset's analytics. For information about configuring analytics ingestion and presentation, see Brightspot Analytics and Google Analytics.
Field | Description |
Locale | Sets the content's locale. This setting can also be used to auto-localize content based on the users requested locale. |