Video Questions

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I’m having problems creating a video post. I am trying to write a post with video and images. And arrange them on the page in a way I like. I’m trying this in both the web interface and the Mac app.

Ideally, I want to upload a video, copy the HTML and choose my own thumbnail. But I just can’t seem to do this without losing the upload. I’d like to save a draft as well, without losing it.

  • When I upload a video in the Uploads page, it uploads a thumbnail (the first frame I think) only, and no video.

  • If I upload a video when creating a post and publish it immediately, it does successfully create a video post, and the video can then be found in the Uploads page. But when uploading, the progress bar doesn’t seem to complete, it’s stuck at 100%. And I don’t get a thumb of the media, like with photos. I’m just publishing it blind (the preview button doesn’t show me the video either).

  • The video I’m uploading is a 1080p mp4, 47MB and pretty good quality with text, and graphics. But micro.blog is converting it to a 50MB file at 360p that looks really awful. It seems better to embed a YouTube video in this case, but I would rather have the original file hosted on micro.blog as I have found a suitable compression that works for the video.

Is there a problem with video uploads? Can I force Micro.blog to leave my video alone if it’s under the 75MB limit?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Micro.blog does additionally compress the video a lot so if you prefer higher quality, you are better off embedding a video.

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Thank you. I’ve read somewhere on here that It’s being considered to display original video files that meet the file size requirement.

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Yes, we should avoid processing the video if the size is already under the limit. I had planned to make that change but it dropped off my radar. I’ll revisit it, thanks!

Also as I’m thinking about this, there is a sort of hacky work-around you could do in the meantime: rename the file with a different file extension, like “myvideo.pdf”, and upload that under Uploads. Then click on the upload and rename it back to “.mp4” or whatever it was.

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Thank you @manton I’ll try that hack now. I’d appreciate being able to upload original videos as it’s one of the main reasons I chose the premium plan. Thanks

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I got it working just fine. Thanks!