Videos are a great way to add value to your online course and get the content across! There are several ways to insert videos.
Videos that should be viewed directly in the course,
can
- be uploaded directly to your course using our elopage video function or
- if your video is somewhere else, it can be added to a video portal such as YouTube, Vimeo in the text editor as via a link or the embed code.
Videos that your customer should download
- can be uploaded to us in the page builder in the "Attachments" block (e.g. the paid conference package for your online congress).
Video:
Provide videos that can be viewed directly
There are different areas for integrating video links or embed codes.
Please note the current regulations of the GDPR, as data is usually passed on when a video is viewed.
a) As a preview video for your product page:
Preview videos show your potential customers an insight into what to expect there before they even buy. Anyone can see this on your shop page without buying the product. You can also introduce yourself and your service in such a video.
Here you can see the shop page of our "elopage Academy" with three products with preview images.
Instead of a preview image, you can also store a video as a product cover, which is either displayed immediately or only after you continue browsing.
If the customer clicks on the selected product, he can watch the preview video or videos. If there are several videos, these are displayed as a gallery view and offer you a great opportunity to present your product in an appealing and convincing manner.
How do you save the preview videos?
- Go to the "Product Page" for your product and then to "Cover."
- Provide the link to the video in the field and click on the "plus" sign next to it to add it.
Please note:
- Please do not set the preview videos to private, especially with Vimeo. Otherwise they cannot be displayed here.
- If you would like to offer a page of your course with your video (and other content of the page) as a preview, then use the "course insight" feature with which you can release the entire course page to your customers before purchasing and give them a good insight into the course.
b) Videos with elopage video
You can upload videos in your course via elopage video. These are then stored by our partner Wistia and played using their technology.
- Go to your "page builder" and click on the "yellow plus" and then select the video icon.
The video block is now stored. You can drag this to another location with drag & drop.
- Then click on the "editing pen" in the upper right corner to make additional settings for your video.
You can find more about this in this category "Upload videos with elopage video."
c) External videos as a video for your online course / membership area:
In contrast to the preview videos, the videos that are part of the course page are only visible after the product has been purchased and paid for.
To embed the video:
- Provide a text block for your course page or click on the "editing pen" for an existing text block.
- Right click on the "triangle" next to "Text" and then click on "Edit text."
- Provide the link or the embed code there by the camera symbol (<iframe...>).
Protection of the videos
If you want to protect streaming videos, different sellers offer different options depending on the price. For example, Vimeo offers a paid account with which you can protect videos so that they can only be played on elopage.com, that is, only for your customers.
Problems playing
Sometimes the videos are not visible on certain devices. For example, only a black window is displayed.
This is then due to the end device, the software that may not be installed there (e.g. no flash player), the browser or firewall settings.
Then ask your customers to research on the Internet and to check or change the instructions there for their setting (e.g. Chrome browser with Kaspersky firewall, Android mobile phone).
Make videos available for download
You can also upload videos, which the buyer can then download, but cannot view directly in the product. You can find this option at the end of the product screen. You can
- upload the files from various sources.
Please note:
Depending on the video format, the files are quite large. On the Internet, you can find various information about video formats and the file sizes or free tools to compress or convert the videos, for example at Heise.de.
With large files, do not underestimate the time it takes to upload the files. Your customers will probably then need the same time to download. In the case of large files, it may make sense to upload them as a zip file. Whether you want to offer videos for viewing or downloading, or both, is entirely up to you.