How to add video

Introduction

In this article, we’re going to show you how to add video blocks to your pages.

Top tips before you begin

• We recommend videos are taken landscape and not portrait, using one of the following standard resolutions, the higher the better:
  1920 x 1080 pixels
  1280 x 720
  
• You can upload your video directly to Nimble or add it from Youtube or Vimeo.
• We’d always recommend uploading your videos to Youtube or Vimeo wherever possible. Although your video will look great when hosted from Nimble, Youtube and Vimeo are video specialists – because of that, the quality will often be a little better.
• The maximum size video that you can upload to Nimble is 475MB.  If your video is larger, we recommend re-encoding it to a smaller file size.  Here is a free tool you can use to re-encode your video: https://handbrake.fr/
• Video file formats accepted are; 3GP, MPEG/MPG, MP4, OGG and MOV
• If your video includes audio, don’t forget you’ll want to be sure your learners have access to headphones or speakers. It’s a great idea to add a note at the beginning of your course that audio is required so that your learners can find headphones before they begin.
• For videos uploaded directly to Nimble you can add a transcript. This is important because it ensures that learners without headphones or speakers or people with hearing disabilities can still understand your content. 
• NOTE - Videos uploaded to directly to Nimble Author are optimized for slower speed connections and are exported in a lower resolution when exporting to SCORM.  Because of this, you may find that hosting your video on Youtube or Vimeo gives better results/resolution.

Video

Watch the video to learn more:

Adding a video block to a page:

To add a video block to a page:

1. Whilst editing a page, drag and drop a Video () block from the Add content section of the side menu and onto the page.

2. Select the Video block.
3. From the toolbar, click the edit () button.

Adding a video

Adding a video from YouTube or Vimeo

To add a video from YouTube or Vimeo:

4. Select YouTube or Vimeo link.
5. Paste the YouTube or Vimeo link into the field to the right.

NOTE: If you want to use a private Vimeo link, some of Vimeo's privacy settings aren't currently compatible with Nimble.  Here is an article with our recommended privacy settings: How to copy a Vimeo link for use in Nimble

Uploading a video to Nimble

To upload an video file:

6. Click Select file in asset manager
7. Click the button.

8. Click the button and select the video file that you’d like to add to your course.
9. Select the file and click the button in the bottom-right of the screen.

Adding a transcript

You may want to add a transcript to your video. This is important because it ensures that learners without headphones or speakers or people with hearing disabilities can still understand your content. To add a transcript to your video file:

10. Click the ⋮ next to the file.
11. Click Edit.

12. Type your text or copy and paste it from another program, such as Microsoft Word.

Formatting your transcript

You can format your transcript using the toolbar that appears above it.

To apply formatting to your text:

13. Select the text you’d like to format.
14. Select the format you’d like to apply from the toolbar.

The formatting options, from left to right, are:

	Bold
	Italic
	Underline
	Numbered list
	Bulleted list
	External link

Saving your changes

To save your changes, simply click somewhere outside of the transcript.

Choosing how the video displays (videos uploaded to Nimble only)

15. Choose how the video displays in the page.

• Display video player with image – Select this option to display a preview image from your video with a play button overlaid.
• Display play button – Select this option to display an empty block with a play button in the middle.

11. Click the button in the top-right of the screen to return to the page.

Waiting for the video to be prepared (videos uploaded to Nimble only)

When you upload your video to Nimble, you might see a grey video block on your page with a message that says Video transcoding... please wait. This happens because when you upload a video, we prepare several versions of it for learners on different connection speeds. This means that your learners will receive the best quality video possible for their Internet connection. Once it completes, the message will disappear and you'll see your video as normal.

How your learners interact with it

For videos added from YouTube or Vimeo, your learners will use the normal YouTube and Vimeo player controls.

For videos uploaded to Nimble, your learners will click the large play button in the middle of the block to begin playback. Once the video has begun, they'll have access to pause/play, volume and a progress bar they can use to skip forward/back through the video. To open or close the transcript, they click the transcript () button. They can also use the full-screen option in the bottom-right of the video to play the video in full-screen.

When playback begins, your learners will receive a lower quality version of the video initially. If we detect that they are capable of receiving a higher quality version of the video, we'll then increase the quality automatically.