Enhanced Video Experience in SharePoint 2013

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A picture is worth a thousand words, but did you know that a video is worth a thousand pictures? 

Videos are revolutionizing the way teams and organizations communicate with each other

Knowledge-sharing and training within organizations

Intranet video portals for the enterprise

Sharing information across the entire organization

video experience in SharePoint 2013 is enhanced greatly-the videos are easier to upload

UI is clean and simple

Videos are easy to search

And more! Let’s walk through it…

How are videos organized?

Videos are organized in a manner similar to document sets

SharePoint creates a stub (think of it as a folder) to hold a video and all the related contents, such as user-defined properties, thumbnails, video renditions, and other documents related to the video. 

When you upload a video file, SharePoint automatically creates this stub for that video. 

The new video player page

SharePoint 2013 offers a video player page for each video, which surfaces the video with its metadata and all the properties the user fills in 

Name, description, owner, the people in video, and keywords-to name a few..

Videos can be played from the video player page

Users can also enable a download link and embed code in the video player page

Video player page has the ability to add related items.

Simply drag and drop the relevant files that you feel the viewers of this video should see. Everything is in a single page!

Video Player page

Video edit form Users can add relevant metadata.

Media players in SharePoint 2013  

Built-in HTML5 media player that is used to play all video files that are compatible with the HTML5 <video> implementation for the current browser

Play videos on mobile devices such as iOS that don’t support Silverlight

If the format is not playable by the HTML5 player, then we use Silverlight

If the format is not playable by the HTML5 player, then we use Silverlight

Player streams video content using the BLOB cache, progressive streaming, and bit-rate throttling in the same manner as the SharePoint 2010 media player. 

HTML5 player on Internet Explorer 10

Uploading a Video

Upload videos to a library that has the video content type enabled

Asset Library, which is customized for storing digital assets

Enable the video content type in other libraries

Uploading a video is as simple as dragging the files into the drop target

Simplifies life when it comes to uploading hundreds of files to a library

What if you want to surface your videos from an external site (like YouTube) on SharePoint?

Choosing a video from the new document drop-down menu gives you three options

Upload video from my computer

Provide a link to a video

File that resides in another site (such as videos from other SharePoint sites or file shares)

  Provide code to embed a video from the web

For example, YouTube

SharePoint knows how to treat each of these files and ensures you get the relevant features regardless of the way you create them.

Video thumb nailing

Two types of thumb nailing

Server-generated

Upload your videos to a library with the video content type enabled

SharePoint automatically generates thumbnails

User-selected

Client-side thumbnail generator to set those perfect moments as thumbnails for your videos

Video thumb nailing

Tagging, ratings, and view count in videos

Tagging helps viewers know the people in that video

Lets viewers rate your videos

Powerful analytics database that provides view counts on the video player page after search finishes crawling your video.

Videos in search-find videos easier and faster

The Everything vertical-your videos stand out from the crowd

Display search results from all kinds of content types

Everything search result page - Everything search result page

If you know it’s a video you’re searching for, the thumbnail in the search result gives you an easy visual cue that can help you identify what is and isn’t a video.

Hover cards and callouts-a window to your videos

Peek into the item you’re hovering over

Hover card shows you the video’s name, length, the people present in the video, who uploaded it, and so on

Watch or preview the video right then and there.

Videos in the Everything vertical

Video-specific result blocks

Videos vertical-all videos, all the time

We know that video search is an area that’s incredibly important, and we’re really proud of the experience we’ve built

We designed this experience with the intent of enabling you to do as much on this specific page as possible

Time is valuable, so we didn’t want to make figuring out what video to watch a time-intensive task as well

Helps you decide which video is the one you want

one-stop shop for finding your videos and watching them, without having to navigate between multiple pages

Video search results formatted for videos