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Working with video metadata
Metadata includes additional information about your video that puts the actual video file into a context and enhances its presentation. It includes, among other things, title, description, and publishing time.
Flowplayer includes standard metadata that is available for all customers as part of our product and also custom metadata fields that you can add based on your needs and preferences for each of your workspace.
Standard metadata information
Standard metadata fields in Flowplayer are listed in the below table:
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- Field
- Type
- Description
- Editable UI
- Editable API
- Usage in Flowplayer
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- Title
- Text
- The main name / headline of the video.
- Yes
- Yes
- Shown in the video player.
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- Description
- Text
- Longer byline describing the video.
- Yes
- Yes
- Shown in the video player.
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- Published
- Date
- Time when the video is / should be published.
- Yes
- Yes
- Determine when the video is visible to the external world.
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- Tags
- Text
- Words used to describe the content. Multiple tags can be added for each video.
- Yes
- Yes
- Used to find content and also recommend related content.
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- Category
- Category
- A tree-like folder structure where each video can reside in one category.
- Yes
- Yes
- Creates a tree hierarchy folder system for videos. Used to find content and also recommend related content.
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- Image
- URL
- Location of a poster image.
- Yes - Image can be uploaded or changed.
- Yes - URL can be set.
- Displayed in the player before the user clicks play.
To edit the metadata, simply click the metadata tab underneath the video. Metadata information that goes across multiple videos (tags and categories) is specific to the workspace/site the video belongs to.
Edit video poster
The Flowplayer platform creates several images from your video in the encoding process and assigns a default. You can select a different one from the "Change poster" link, or optionally upload a custom image. Please make sure the aspect ratio of the upload matches the ratio of the video clip.
Custom metadata information
In addition to the standard metadata information you can configure additional metadata fields. Typical examples of fields that are useful as custom metadata fields are things like videographer or external id of the video in another system.
You can enable custom metadata fields by first configuring which additional fields you would like to have for your site. By going into the workspace/site settings and enabling and putting a label on each custom metadata fields. After that the fields will be visible and editable in the metadata tab for each video.
