Its Been a Long Time Since I Uploaded My Video

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02/25/2022
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Note

The post-obit information is about Microsoft Stream (Classic) which will eventually be retired and replaced past Stream (on SharePoint). To start using the newer video solution today, just upload your videos to SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, or OneDrive. Videos stored in Microsoft 365 the style you'd store whatever other file is the footing for Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint). Larn more...

Upload a video

Uploading videos with Microsoft Stream (Classic) is easy and anyone can practice it.

Start uploading videos

Click the Upload icon at the top of any page or just elevate and drop new videos to one of your groups or channels. You tin upload multiple videos at the same time and even scan Microsoft Stream (Classic) while your videos are uploading in the background.

There are several options for uploading videos. Depending on where you start your uploads from, different default permissions will be assault the videos, but you can e'er modify them afterwards.

Run across this commodity for in-depth information on video permissions.

Upload from any page

To upload from whatsoever folio:

In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) portal, select Create > Upload a video or the upload icon from the peak navigation bar
Drag and drop or select files from your figurer or device.

To upload from Videos page:

In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) portal, select My content > Videos from the top navigation bar
Drag and driblet or select files from your computer or device

Upload directly to a group or channel

To upload to a group:

In the Microsoft Stream (Archetype) website, navigate to a group that y'all can contribute to
Select the Upload video push button on the group'southward navigation bar or drag and drib videos when on the group'south Highlights or Videos tab

To upload to a channel:

In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) website, navigate to a aqueduct that you tin can contribute to
Click Select more files or drag and drop videos directly to the channel page

While your video is uploading and processing, y'all tin can fill out metadata for the video to make information technology easier to find.

Details

Championship & Description

Fill out the title and clarification for your video to give your viewers context for the video. In the description field, y'all can add together the post-obit to make your video more interactive:

Time codes (H:MM:SS) - Yous can build an interactive tabular array of contents for the video past typing in the time codes of interesting points in the video. Viewers will be able to click on these fourth dimension codes to jump to that point of the video.
#Hashtags - Add together #hashtags to your video description every bit a lightweight customs way to group like videos together. Viewers will be able to click on the #hashtags and see other videos with the same tag.
Links - Paste in a web address in the description and viewers will exist able to click the link to open your address in a new page when viewing the video.

Note

The championship is express to 100 characters. The description is limited to 4,000 characters.

Video language

Select the language spoken in the video. This will enable a closed caption file for supported languages to be automatically generated. In add-on, people with the correct license will exist able to notice your video based on the text in this transcript.

For more information see:

Auto-generated captions
Deep search on what's said in the video

Thumbnails

Automatic thumbnails are generated for the video afterwards it'due south uploaded. When the frames from the video are generated, choose i to represent your video or upload your own custom image.

Details pane while uploading video.

Permissions

In the permissions section, y'all can control who can see your video, who can ain and edit it, and which groups and channels information technology'southward displayed in.

See this commodity for more than in-depth information on video permissions.

Allow anybody in your company to view this video

When checked anybody in your organization can come across the video and is able to add it to their groups and channels. This, in effect, makes your video available for viewing companywide. To be able to add a video to a companywide channel, this check box must be checked.

When non checked, your video volition simply exist viewable by those people and groups you've made viewers.

Shared with

Apply the Shared with drop down to narrow your search scope and pick who y'all desire to share your video with.

Groups - search telescopic to add your video to a group that yous can contribute to.
Channels - search scope to add together your video to a channel directly, including companywide channels.
People - search scope to grant permission to individual people, Advert Security Groups, and/or Microsoft 365 Groups that you don't accept contribute rights to.

Any person or group added will automatically be granted view permission to your video. If you want any of these Viewers to also be able to update your video, check the box next to their entry in the Owner cavalcade to upgrade their permission.

The Brandish check box shows up for groups where you are a contributor. This controls if the video shows upwards in the group'due south pages in Stream. If it's non checked it means that the group has access if you lot send them a link or they plant the video in search, just it won't show upwards on their group's pages direct.

For more data almost permissions, run across Video permissions.

Permissions pane while uploading.

Options

In the Options section, you tin can control various settings for the video.

Comments

If yous don't want users to exist able to add comments directly on the video role player page, ready Comments to Off.

Captions

Closed captions are a text version, in the original language, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has a caption ready, viewers can click the CC push button on the player while watching a video to show the captions under the video.

If you lot've selected a supported Video language in the Details pane for the video, then the Autogenerate a caption file check box will be checked. This means a caption file volition be automatically generated. In addition, people with the right license will be able to discover your video based on the text in this transcript or your own uploaded closed caption file.

If you deselect the box, Autogenerate a caption file, then you can upload your ain closed caption file in the WebVTT format.

For more data about captions, see:

Autogenerated captions
Deep search on what's said in the video
Subtitles and captions

Subtitles

Subtitles are a text version, translated into dissimilar languages, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has one or more subtitles fix, viewers can enable the the subtitles on the player while watching the video.

To upload 1 subtitle file per language:

Click Upload a subtitle file
Select the language the subtitle file is for
Click Select file or elevate and drop your subtitle file in the WebVTT format
Select OK

For more than information, see the subtitle and captions article

Options pane while uploading.

Publish and playback

Once your video has been uploaded, and you are washed setting up your video, you tin press the Publish now push button at the bottom of the upload carte. This will make the video available to those yous've shared it with every bit shortly as it'south done processing. Press the title of the video on the top of the upload card to see the playback page for the video.

Publish now button.

To modify annihilation about the video after you've published it, go to My content > Videos > More menu > Edit.

Processing fourth dimension is based on the length and resolution of your video. You won't be able to play the video until it's washed processing. Run into upload processing details for more information.

Select the Share icon on the bottom of the upload card to copy a link to the video, share on Yammer, or get the embed code for the video. For more information, run into Sharing a video.

Supported upload formats

See supported file formats for more data on what kinds of videos tin be uploaded.

Quotas and limitations

Meet upload quotas and limitations for more information on video, user, and company limits.

Troubleshooting

For common upload errors, run across Understanding upload errors.

Its Been a Long Time Since I Uploaded My Video

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