Video hosting

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Follow the steps to host your videos in Ontraport so you can easily embed your content into Ontraport Pages — and you can get rid of any extra video hosting bills.

In this lesson you'll learn:

How to upload your videos
How to embed them into a page
Video color options
Our advice regarding autoplay
When to use looping

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Ontraport can host your videos, so you can put them on your Ontraport Pages without a separate video hosting service. That's handy for things like a course inside your membership site. There are two steps: upload the video, then add it to a page. To upload a video, click your profile icon, then Administration, then Video Manager. Click New Video, give the video a name, and select the file from your computer. If you're uploading a lot of videos, like a full course, use a consistent naming system, such as starting every name with the course title. That makes them much easier to find later. Video Manager accepts most video file types, including MP4, WEBM, AVI, WMV and MPEG. Each file has to fit within your plan's video hosting limits, which you'll find on the Ontraport pricing page. For larger videos, use a service like YouTube, Vimeo or Wistia instead. You can still show those videos on your Ontraport Pages. Now add the video to a page. Click Pages in the top navigation and open your page. It works the same way on a lead page, a sales page or a lesson in your membership site. Drag the Video element onto the page, then click it to open its settings. Set the video provider to Ontraport, and choose your video from the list. The same element also works with YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia or your own embed code. Click Done, then save and publish your page. Browsers only let a video play automatically if it has no sound, so you can only turn on autoplay for silent videos. Save it for silent clips, like a short feature animation. For anything people need to hear, let them press play. If your site runs on WordPress, you can add your Ontraport-hosted videos there too, with the PilotPress plugin. In the WordPress editor, click Add Media, select Videos, and choose your video. Then pick a player: HTML5, FlowPlayer in three sizes, or Hidden, which plays the video with its controls turned off. What about email? Most inbox providers, like Gmail and Outlook, won't play a video inside an email. So put the video on an Ontraport Page, then add an image of it to your email, like a screenshot of the player or a GIF of a short clip. In the image's Link URL setting, choose that page, so one click takes contacts straight to the video. One more option. If your account has the Dynamic CMS, dynamic video lets one page template pull each video from a URL field on a record, like a lesson. To change a video, you update the link on the record instead of editing every page. Dynamic video works with YouTube, Vimeo and Wistia links, not with videos in Video Manager. So: upload your videos in Video Manager, add them to your pages with the Video element, keep autoplay for silent clips, and link to your videos from email with a thumbnail. Next up: file hosting, for PDFs, audio files and other downloads.