Videos

Heretto CCMS enables you to insert videos into topics. Videos can provide concepts or tasks in a different format to the reader. We recommend inserting videos from external services like YouTube or Vimeo. Online videos can be embedded into your content for digital productions.

Note: You can also insert a video from the Content Library. However, we strongly recommend using an external video hosting service instead.
Figure 1. YouTube Video

Insert an External Video

You can insert a video to a topic by using the Insert Video icon in the Content Editor toolbar.

Note: This procedure shows you how to insert a YouTube or Vimeo video into a topic. However, you can insert a video form a different service in an analogous way.
Obtain a video link by doing any of the following:
  1. To obtain a link to a YouTube video, do the following:
    1. Go to the YouTube video that you want to add to a topic.
      Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Tvur816GU&t=2s.
    2. Below the video, click Share and select Embed.
      Obtaining a link to a YouTube video
    3. Optional: In the window that appears, adjust any additional options like the starting point of your video, player appearance, etc.
    4. Copy the video embed link.
      Obtaining a link to a YouTube video
      Copy https://www.youtube.com/embed/h6Tvur816GU.
  2. To obtain a link to a Vimeo video, do the following:
    1. Go to the Vimeo video that you want to add to a topic.
      Go to https://vimeo.com/417314067.
    2. Below the video, click Share.
    3. Copy the video embed link.
      Obtaining a link to a Vimeo video
Reference the video in a topic by doing the following:
  1. In the Content Library, double-click a topic.
  2. Place your cursor where you want to insert a video.
  3. In the toolbar, click the Insert Video icon.
  4. In the dialog, do the following:
    A video dialog that displays when a user wants to insert an video.
    1. From the Link To drop-down menu, select A URL (External link).
    2. In the Link (href) field paste the link to the video that you obtained in 1 or 2.
      Paste https://www.youtube.com/embed/h6Tvur816GU.
    3. Click Apply.
  5. Optional: Set the video attributes by selecting the video and clicking the Attributes tab.
    Tip:

    You can control the size of the video player in the output by setting the width attribute and the height attribute.

Insert a Video from the Content Library

You can insert a video to a topic by using the Insert Video icon in the Content Editor toolbar.

Important:

We strongly recommend hosting videos on external video hosting platforms like YouTube or Vimeo and referencing them in your content. See Insert an External Video.

Upload a video to the Content Library. See Upload Files to Heretto CCMS.
Note:

Heretto CCMS supports common video formats, including: MOV, AVI, and MP4.

Note:

Size limit for any uploaded file is 500 MB.

  1. In the Content Library, double-click a topic.
  2. Place your cursor where you want to insert a video.
  3. In the toolbar, click the Insert Video icon.
  4. In the linking dialog, do the following:
    A video dialog that displays when the user wants to insert a video.
    1. From the Link To drop-down menu, select A File in Heretto.
    2. Near the Href field, click Select File.
    3. Select the video that you want to insert and click Link to Fileo.
  5. Optional: Set the video attributes by selecting the video and clicking the Attributes tab.
    Tip:

    You can control the size of the video player in the output by setting the width attribute and the height attribute.