Uploading content to the media gallery
Use the community's media gallery to share photos and videos with the rest of the community.
Community owners can configure the media gallery to show videos only or photos only. In this case, the options available in the user interface allow you only to upload files of the specified type.
When you upload content, we might need to accept custom terms and conditions or specify extra metadata, such as the photo or video location, or video duration. The following steps describe the default procedure for uploading a photo or video file, but extra custom options might be included in the configuration.
If the community has a media gallery, you and other members can upload multimedia content to the community from the Media Gallery widget on the community's Overview page or from the main Media Gallery page.
To upload a file to the community's media gallery.
From the Media Gallery widget, click Upload, and then do one of the following actions:
- To upload a photo:
- Select New Photo.
- Click Browse to locate the image to upload.
- Enter one or more tags in the Tags field. This step is optional.
- Enter an optional description of the image in the Description field, and then click Upload.
- To upload a video:
- Select New Video.
- Click Browse to locate the video to upload.
The video file must be encoded in the video and audio formats outlined in table 1.
For more information about the supported codecs, go to the following web page:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402866.htmlHTML5 video is browser dependent not product dependent. For more information about HTML5 audio and video support, go to the following web page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Supported_media_formats
- Enter one or more tags in the Tags field. This is an optional step.
- Enter an optional description of the video in the Description field.
- To upload a preview image to display in the media gallery, select Upload a thumbnail image for this video. This is an optional step.
This option is not available when premoderation is enabled.
- Click Upload.
- If we selected the option to upload a thumbnail image for the video, click Browse to locate the image, then click Upload. We can perform this step only after the video is successfully uploaded.
We can change the preview image for a video file later by uploading a replacement file. See Work with media gallery content.
Results
If premoderation is enabled for your community, the file is submitted for upload pending approval by the community moderator. If premoderation is not enabled, the file is uploaded immediately. When you first upload a photo or video, you might not see the image immediately. Instead, you might see a gray icon as a placeholder for the file. Refresh the page after a few minutes to see the file that is rendered on the current page.
Format File extension MIME type JPEG .jpg image/jpeg PNG .png image/png GIF .gif image/gif
Container format File extension Video encoding Audio encoding MIME type QuickTime .mov H.264 AAC video/QuickTime MPEG .mp4 H.264 or AAC - video/mp4 Flash video .flv On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark MP3 video/x-flv
What to do next
The files that you add to the community's media gallery are stored in the community's file library. Although we can access media gallery files using the Files widget, it is preferable to use the media gallery as the access point. This is because the media gallery provides more options for working with the photo and video files. For more information, see Work with media gallery content.
Parent topic:
Use a media gallery
Related:
Share files with the community
Add a media gallery to the community