Import a video

When working in the Oxygen-based editor, you can insert a video into a topic. The video displays in the topic with playback controls. You can use these steps to import the video so that it's stored in Inspire. If you don't want to manage the video in Inspire, you can specify a URL in Oxygen instead of importing the file. To insert video into a topic by specifying a URL, follow the steps in Insert an external video.

File names must be 200 characters or less

  • When you import a file into Inspire, the file name and GUID together must not exceed 200 characters.
  • If the file name and GUID length exceeds 200 characters, Inspire won't import the file.

Supported file formats.

You can add the following video formats to inspire:

  • MP4. This is an MPEG-4 video file format. MP4s are one of the more common video file formats used for downloading and streaming videos.
  • WebM. This is an open video format introduced by Google for multimedia content, such as audio and video. This format can store media files according to compression standards to optimize online streaming.
  • OGG. The OGG container format is a multimedia format that supports multiple streams of video, audio, text, and metadata. The individual streams may be compressed with different compression methods, including Theora (video), Vorbis (audio), Opus (audio), FLAC (audio), and OGGPCM (audio).

If your file format isn't supported, you can insert a URL link to the video instead of importing it into Inspire. Follow the steps in Insert an external video.

The files can't be part of an active translation job

When you import files by opening a folder's Options menu and selecting import, Inspire checks to make sure none of the files are in an active translation job.

If the files you are importing are part of an active translation job:

  • The entire import will fail, even if some files are not part of an active translation job.
  • You see an error message: You are trying to import files that are part of an active translation job. Use the "Import translation" action in the translation management tab instead.
  • You see one error for each file you are trying to import that is part of an active translation job. File ({fileName}) was found in translation job ({translation job id}).

To import translation files:

  1. Go to the Translation Management tab.
  2. Select the job that the files belong to.
  3. Right-click the job or click the Options menu.
  4. Select Import translation...

For more information, read Import translated components.

To import a video:

  1. From the top menu click Components.
  2. In the Folders pane, select to the folder where you want to save the video, right-click, and then select Import.
  3. On the Import Components pane, click Browse for files...
  4. On the Open dialog, locate the image, click it, and then click Open.
  5. On the Import Components pane, click Next, Next, and then Finish.
    Results: When you complete a task that triggers a notification, such as importing content, the Slack and email message bodies contain:
    • The notification with ten or less Issues, Errors, and Warnings.
    • A link at the bottom of the message [See Full Version]
    • You can click the [See Full Version] link to expand a section under the link with the full details.