The highlight reel is the carousel of videos that will be displayed on your video library homepage.
The highlight reel can be a dedicated channel of videos specifically for the highlight reel, or can be any channel or sub-channel selected.
Steps
- To select a Highlight Reel channel, browse to Admin >Video Channel >Channels
- Select a Channel from the list >Edit
- On the Channel Info tab, scroll down to Highlight Reel
- Select Use this Channel
- Save
This channel will now be used to display video on your video library home highlight reel.
Highlight Reel Settings
To customize your Video Library Highlight Reel
- Browse to Layout >Video Library >Highlight Reel tab
- Select a Highlight Reel Template from the drop-down menu
- sed for the Highlight Reel section
- Display Video Title: Display the title of your video as a heading on your highlight reel cards. Best to disable if your video thumbnail images include a title and text to avoid layering of text on the image.
- Highlight Reel Sort Order: Set the display order of the videos within the highlight reel.
- Font Color: Set the font color for the video titles when displayed in the highlight reel.
- Indicator Menu: Display carousel indicator dots on the highlight reel.
- Indicator Color: Set the color for the the carousel indicators when the item is selected.
Highlight Reel Images:
The highlight reel will use the thumbnail images from each of the videos. Images are set to display images in 16:9 aspect ratio.
If you have a 4:3 thumbnail image on your video, then the highlight reel will resize the image to suit the 16:9 aspect ratio.