Use your community's media gallery to share photos
and videos with the rest of your community.
Before you begin
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, you 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 your configuration.
About this task
If your 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.
Procedure
To upload a file to your community's media gallery,
complete the following steps.
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 that you
want 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 that you
want to upload.
Note: The video file must be encoded in the H.264 format,
and the audio must be encoded with AAC. For more information about
the supported codecs, go to the following web page:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402866.html
- 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.
Note: This
option is not available when premoderation is enabled.
- Click Upload.
- If you selected the option to upload a thumbnail image for the
video, click Browse to locate the image, then
click Upload. You can perform this step only
after the video is successfully uploaded.
Note: You can change the
preview image for a video file later by uploading a replacement file.
For more information, see Working 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.Table 1. Supported photo formats| Format |
File extension |
MIME type |
|---|
| JPEG |
.jpg |
image/jpeg |
| PNG |
.png |
image/png |
| GIF |
.gif |
image/gif |
Table 2. Supported
video container and encoding formats| Container format |
File extension |
Video encoding |
Audio encoding |
MIME type |
|---|
| QuickTime |
.mov |
H.264 |
AAC |
video/QuickTime |
| MPEG |
.mp4 |
- |
- |
video/mp4 |
| Flash video |
.flv |
On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark |
MP3 |
video/x-flv
|
What to do next
The files that you add to your community's media gallery
are stored in the community's file library. Although you can
access media gallery files by using the Files widget, it is preferable
to use the media gallery as your access point. This is because the
media gallery provides more options for working with your photo
and video files. For more information, see
Working with media
gallery content.