Video in Dynamic Media video

Upload your Dynamic Media videos by doing the following:

• Create your own video encoding profile. Or, you can simply use the predefined Adaptive Video Encoding profile that comes with Dynamic Media.

  • Create a video encoding profile.
  • Learn more about Best practices for video encoding.

• Associate the video processing profile to one or more folders where you are going to upload your primary source videos.

  • Apply a video profile to folders.
  • Learn more about Best practices for organizing your digital assets for using processing profiles.
  • Learn more about Organize digital assets.

• Upload your primary source videos to the folders. When you add videos to the folder, they are encoded according to the video processing profile that you assigned to the folder.

  • Dynamic Media supports primarily short-form videos with a maximum length of 30 minutes and a minimum resolution that is greater than 25 x 25.
  • You can upload video files that are up to 15 GB each.
  • Upload your videos.
  • Learn more about Supported input file formats.

• Monitor how video encoding is progressing either from the asset or workflow view.

Manage your Dynamic Media videos by doing any of the following:

• Organize, browse, and search video assets

  • Organize digital assets
    Learn more about Best practices for organizing your digital assets for using processing profiles

  • Search video assets or Search assets

• Preview and publish video assets

  • View the source video and encoded renditions of the video along with its associated thumbnails:
    Preview videos or Preview assets
    View video renditions
    Manage video renditions

  • Manage viewer presets

  • Publish assets

• Work with video metadata

  • View the properties of an encoded video rendition such as frame rate, audio and video bitrate, and codec:
    View video rendition properties

  • Edit the properties of video such as the title, description, and tags, custom metadata fields:
    Edit video properties

  • Manage metadata for digital assets

  • Metadata schemas

• Review, approve, and annotate videos, and maintain full version control

  • Annotate videos or Annotate assets

  • Create a version

  • Apply workflows to assets or see Start a workflow on an asset

  • Review folder assets

  • Projects

Publish your Dynamic Media videos by doing one of the following:

• If you use Adobe Experience Manager as your web content management system, you can add videos directly to your web pages.

  • Add videos to your web pages.

• If you are using a third-party web content management system, you can link or embed videos to your web pages.

  • Integrate video using URL:
    Link URLs to your web application.

  • Integrate video using embed code on a web page:
    Embed the video viewer on a web page.

• Generate video reports.

• Add captions to the video.

The video player loads the initial video fragment based on the bit rate that is closest to the value that is set for “initial bitrate” in the player itself.

Video player switches based on changes to the bandwidth speed using the following criteria:

1. The player picks the highest bandwidth stream below or equal to the estimated bandwidth.
2. Player considers only 80% of the available bandwidth. However, if it is switching up, it is more conservative at only 70% to avoid overestimating and immediately switching back.

Begin by configuring Dynamic Media for DASH - From Experience Manager, navigate to Tools > Operations > Web Console.

From the Adobe Experience Manager Web Console Configuration page, scroll to the name AEM Assets Dynamic Media Video Advanced Streaming Feature Flag.

To the left of the name, select the checkbox to enable (turn on) DASH.

Select Save.

Now use the Admin Console to start the creation of a new support case.

To create a support case, follow the instructions while ensuring you provide the following information:

• Primary contact name, email, phone.
• Name of your Dynamic Media account.
• Specify that you want DASH, multiple caption and multiple audio track support enabled on your Dynamic Media account, on Experience Manager 6.5.

Adobe Customer Support adds you to the customer Wait List based on the order in which requests are submitted.

When Adobe is ready to handle your request, Customer Support contacts you to coordinate and set a target date for enablement.

You are notified after completion by Customer Support.

Now you can do either one of the following:

• Create your video viewer preset as usual.
• Add multiple caption and audio tracks to your video.

In the upper-left corner of Experience Manager, select the Experience Manager logo, then in the left rail, select Tools (hammer icon) > Assets > Video Reports.

On the Video Reports page, do one of the following:

• Near the upper-right corner, select the Refresh Video Report icon.
  Use Refresh only if the end date of the report is the current day. Doing so ensures that you see the video tracking that has occurred since the last time you ran the report.

• Near the upper-right corner, select the Date Picker icon.
  Specify the beginning and end date range for which you want video data, and then select Run Report.

The Top Metrics group box identifies various aggregate measurements for all published videos across your site.

In the table that lists the top published videos, select a video name to play the video and also see the video’s audience retention (drop-off) report.

Navigate to any published video asset.

Near the upper-left corner of the asset’s page, from the drop-down list, select Viewers.

Select any video viewer preset and copy the embed code.

In the embed code, find the line with the following:

videoViewer.setParam("config2", "<value>");

The config2 parameter enables tracking in HTML5 Viewers. It is also a company-specific preset that contains the configuration information for Video Reporting, and for customer-specific Adobe Analytics configurations.

The correct value for the config2 parameter is found in both the Embed Code and in the copy URL function. In the URL from the copy URL command, the parameter to look for is &config2=<value> . The value is almost always companypreset, but in some instances it can also be companypreset-1, companypreset-2, and so forth.

In your custom video viewer code, add AppMeasurementBridge .jsp to the viewer page by doing the following:

• First, determine if you need the &preset parameter.

  If the config2 parameter is companypreset, you do not need &preset=parameter.

  If config2 is anything else, set the preset parameter the same as the config2 parameter. For example, if config2=companypreset-2, add &param2=companypreset-2 to the AppMeasurmentBridge.jsp URL.

• Then, add the AppMeasurementBridge.jsp script:

  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://s7d1.scene7.com/s7viewers/AppMeasurementBridge.jsp?company=robindallas&preset=companypreset-2"></script>

Create the TrackingManager component by doing the following:

• After you call s7sdk.Util.init();, create a TrackingManager instance to track events by adding the following:

  var trackingManager = new s7sdk.TrackingManager();

• Connect components to TrackingManager by doing the following:

  In the s7sdk.Event.SDK_READY event handler, attach the component you want to track to the TrackingManager.

  For example, if the component is videoPlayer, add

  trackingManager.attach(videoPlayer);

  to attach the component to the trackingManager. To track multiple viewers on a page, use multiple tracking manager components.

• Create the AppMeasurementBridge object by adding the following:

  code language-none
  var appMeasurementBridge = new AppMeasurementBridge(); appMeasurementBridge.setVideoPlayer(videoPlayer);

• Add the tracking function by adding the following:

  code language-none
  trackingManager.setCallback(appMeasurementBridge.track, appMeasurementBridge);

The appMeasurementBridge object has a built-in track function. However, you can provide your own to support multiple tracking systems or other functionality.

Upload your primary video to a folder that already has a video profile assigned to it.

Navigate to the uploaded video asset that you want to add multiple caption and audio tracks.

In asset selection mode, either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).
Selected video asset in Card view.

On the video’s Properties page, select the Captions & Audio Tracks tab.

Captions and Audio Tracks tab on the video’s Properties page.

(Optional) To add one or more caption files to a video, do the following:

• Select Upload Captions.

• Navigate to, and select, one or more .vtt (Video Text Tracks) files and open them.

• For captions to be visible on the media player, you must add required details (metadata) about each caption file that you uploaded. Select the pencil icon to the right of a caption file name. In the Edit Caption dialog box, enter the following required details about the file, then select Save. Repeat this process for each caption file that you uploaded:

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  Caption metadata	Description
  Filename	The default filename is derived from the original filename. The filename can be changed only while uploading and cannot be changed later. Filename character requirements are the same as for AEM Assets. The same filename cannot be used for additional caption files and audio track files.
  Language	Select the language of the caption.
  Type	Select the type of caption that you are using. Subtitle – The caption text displayed with the video that translates or transcribes the dialogue. Caption – The caption text also includes background noises, speaker differentiation, and other relevant information, along with the translation or transcription of the dialogue, making the content more accessible for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
  Label	The text that is displayed for the caption’s name in the Select audio or subtitle pop-up list in the media player. The label is what a customer sees that corresponds to a subtitle or caption track. For example, English (CC).

  You can change or edit caption metadata later, if necessary. When the video is published, these details are reflected on public URLs in published videos.

(Optional) To add one or more audio tracks to a video, do the following:

• Select Upload Audio Tracks.

• Navigate to, and select, one or more .mp3 files and open them.

• For audio tracks to be visible in the Select audio or caption pop-up list on the media player, you must add required details about each audio track file that you added. Select the pencil icon to the right of an audio track file name. In the Edit Audio Track dialog box, enter the following required details, then select Save. Repeat this process for each audio track file that you uploaded.

  table 0-row-2 1-row-2 2-row-2 3-row-2 4-row-2
  Audio Track metadata	Description
  Filename	The default filename is derived from the original filename. The filename can be changed only while uploading and cannot be changed later. Filename character requirements are the same as for AEM Assets. The same filename cannot be used for additional audio track files or caption files.
  Language	Select the language of the audio track.
  Type	Select the type of audio track that you are using. Original – The audio track originally attached to the video and represented as [Original] in the label with English language selected by default. While Label and Language can be changed in the Edit Audio Track dialog box, it defaults to the original values if the primary video is reprocessed. Standard – An add-on audio track for a language other than the original. Audio description – An audio track that also includes a descriptive narration of non-verbal actions and gestures in the video, making content more accessible for individuals who are visually impaired.
  Label	The text that is displayed as the audio track’s name in the Select audio or subtitle pop-up list in the media player. The label is what a customer sees that corresponds to an audio track. For example, English [Original]. The label of audio attached to a video is set to [Original] by default.

  You can change or edit this audio track metadata later, if necessary. When the video is published, these details are reflected on public URLs in published videos.

In the upper-right corner of the page, from the Save & Close drop-down list, select Save. The files are uploaded and metadata processing begins, as seen in the Status column of the interface.

(Optional) If you selected Save & Close in the previous step, instead of selecting Save, you can still view the processing status of the uploaded files. See View the lifecycle status of uploaded caption and audio track files.

(Optional) Preview the video before publishing to ensure the captions and audio work as expected. See Preview a video that has multiple caption and audio tracks

Publish the video. See Publish assets.

Navigate to the video asset whose default audio track you want to set.

In asset selection mode, either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the Properties page, select the Captions & Audio Tracks tab.

Under the Audio Tracks heading, select the audio track file that you want to set as the video’s default.

Select Set as default.
In the Set as default dialog box, select Replace.

Setting the default audio track for a video.

In the upper-right corner, select Save & Close.

Publish the video. See Publish assets.

In Assets, navigate to an existing video that you have added multiple captions and audio tracks.

Click the video asset so you can open it in preview mode.

On the preview page, near the upper-left corner of the page, select the drop-down list, then select Viewers.

From the Viewers list, select a viewer that you want to use for the video preview. As an example, the following screenshot shows the Video viewer being selected.

Near the lower-right corner, to the left of the volume icon, select the speech bubble icon, then select the audio or caption you want to hear, or see or both. If desired, under Captions, you can select Off to not display any captions.

Simulation of a user selecting the audio and caption for video playback.

To begin playback, select the video’s Play button.
Note the URL and Embed buttons in the lower-left corner. Use these buttons to link the video’s URL to your web application or to embed the video on a Web Page, respectively.

Near the upper right corner of the preview page, select Close.

Navigate to the video asset whose default audio track you want to set.

In asset selection mode, either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the Properties page, select the Captions & Audio Tracks tab.

Do either one of the following:

• Captions—Under the Captions heading, select one or more caption files that you want to delete from the video, then select Delete.
• Audio Tracks—Under the Audio Tracks heading, select one or more audio track files that you want to delete from the video, then select Delete.

In the Delete dialog box, select OK.

Publish the video.

Navigate to the video asset whose default audio track you want to set.

In asset selection mode, either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the Properties page, select the Captions & Audio Tracks tab.

Do either one of the following:

• Captions—Under the Captions heading, select one or more caption files that you want to download from the video, then select Download.
• Audio Tracks—Under the Audio Tracks heading, select one or more audio track files that you want to download from the video, then select Download.

In the Download dialog box, set the following options:

Select Download.

Publish the video. See Publish assets.

Use a third-party application or service to create your video caption file.

Ensure the file that you create follows the WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) standard. The captioning filename extension is .vtt. You can learn more information about the WebVTT captioning standard.

See WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks format.

There are many websites that offer both free and premium tools and services that you can use to author WebVTT caption/caption files outside Dynamic Media.

Follow the onscreen instructions from a site to author and save your WebVTT file. When you have finished, copy the caption file contents and paste it into a plain text editor and save it with a .vtt filename extension.

Generally, you want to name the caption VTT file the same name as the video file, and append it with the language locale, such as -EN, -FR, or -DE. By doing so, it can help you with automating the generation of the video URLs using your existing web content management system.

In Experience Manager, upload your WebVTT caption file into DAM.

Navigate to the published video asset that you want to associate with the caption file that you uploaded.

Remember that URLs are only available to copy after you have first published the assets.

See Publish assets.

Do one of the following:

• For a pop-up video viewer experience, select URL. In the URL dialog box, select and copy the URL to the Clipboard and then past the URL into a simple text editor. Append the copied URL of the video with the following syntax:

  &caption=<server_path>/is/content/<path_to_caption.vtt_file,1>

  Note the ,1 at the end of the caption path. Immediately following the .vtt filename extension in the path, you can optionally enable (turn on) or disable (turn off) the closed caption button on the video player bar by setting to ,1 or ,0, respectively.

• For an embedded video viewer experience, select Embed Code. In the Embed Code dialog box, select, and copy the embed code to the Clipboard and then paste the code into a simple text editor. Append the copied embed code with the following syntax:

  videoViewer.setParam("caption","<path_to_caption.vtt_file,1>");

  Note the ,1 at the end of the caption path. Immediately following the .vtt filename extension in the path, you can optionally enable (turn on) or disable (turn off) the closed caption button on the video player bar by setting to ,1 or ,0, respectively.

Save the .vtt file in UTF8 encoding so you avoid problems with character rendition in the chapter title text.

Generally, you want to name the chapter VTT file the same name as the video file, and append it with chapters. By doing so, it can help you with automating the generation of the video URLs using your existing web content management system.

In Experience Manager, upload your WebVTT chapter file.

See Uploading Assets.

Do one of the following:

Be sure you have already done the following:

• Created a folder for your video assets.

• Apply a video profile to the folder.

• Uploaded your videos to the folder.

Navigate to an uploaded video asset whose thumbnail image you want to change.

In asset selection mode either from List View or Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the video’s Properties page, select Change Thumbnail.

On the Change Thumbnail page, do one of the following:

• To use a frame from the video as the new thumbnail:

  • On the toolbar, select Select Frame from video.
  • Select the Play button, then select the Pause button on the frame you want to capture as the video’s new thumbnail.

• To use an image asset as the new thumbnail:

  • On the toolbar, select Select Thumbnail from Assets.
  • Select Select Thumbnail.
  • Navigate to a previously uploaded and published image asset that you want to use. The asset is automatically resized to serve as a thumbnail image for the video.
  • Select the image asset, then select Select.

On the Change Thumbnail page, select Save Change.

On the video’s Properties page, in the upper-right corner, select Save & Close.

Navigate to an uploaded video asset that you want to add a video thumbnail.

In asset selection mode either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the View Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the video’s Properties page, select Change Thumbnail.

On the Change Thumbnail page, on the toolbar, select Select Frame.

Dynamic Media generates a series of thumbnail images from your video, based on the default time interval or time interval you customized.

Preview the generated thumbnail images, then select the one you want to add to your video.

Select Save Change.

The video’s thumbnail image is updated to use the thumbnail you selected. If you later decide to change the thumbnail image, you can return to the Change Thumbnail page and select a new one.

If you configured new default time intervals, or you uploaded a new video to replace the existing video, have Dynamic Media regenerate the thumbnails.

See Configure the default time interval that video thumbnails are generated.

In Experience Manager, select Tools > General > CRXDE Lite.

In the CRXDE Lite page, in the directory panel on the left, navigate t o etc/dam/imageserver/configuration/jcr:content/settings.

if the directory panel is not visible, select the >> icon to the left of the Home tab.

On the lower-right panel, in the Properties tab, double-select thumbnailtime.

In the Edit thumbnailtime dialog box, use the text fields to enter interval values as percentages.

• Select the plus sign (+) icon if you want to add one or more interval value fields. If necessary, scroll to the bottom of the dialog box to see the icon.
• Select the minus sign (-) icon to the right of an interval value field if you want to delete it from the list.
• Select the up arrow icon and the down arrow icon if you want to reorder the interval values.

Select OK and return to the Properties tab.

Near the upper-left corner of the CRXDE Lite page, select Save All, then select the Back Home icon in the upper-left corner to return to Experience Manager.

See Add a video thumbnail.

Navigate to an uploaded video asset that you want to add a custom video thumbnail.

In asset selection mode either from the List View or the Card View, select the video asset.

On the toolbar, select the View Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it).

On the video’s Properties page, select Change Thumbnail.

On the Change Thumbnail page, on the toolbar, select Upload New Thumbnail.

Navigate to a thumbnail image that you want to use, select it, then select Open to begin uploading the image into Experience Manager. Following the upload, be sure you publish the image.

After you have successfully uploaded and published the image, in the Change Thumbnail page, select Save Changes.

The custom thumbnail is added to your video.