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in this video we will focus on
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one thing and one thing only and
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that is adding video files to a Hyper 8
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site and processing these into new
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versions if required so to begin with
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if we have a collection then under
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the general collection settings you can scroll
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down all the way and at the
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bottom you find a button where you can
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upload video or
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audio files or if you have a playlist
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such as here here as well under
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the general playlist settings you can scroll
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down all the way and there's the
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same button or if you already have
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a video but one that does not
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yet have a video or audio file as you
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can see here zero you can go
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to that video slash audio file subpage
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and there again you find that
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same button
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so let's upload a video first and as
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soon as you have done this you
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can already hit the preview button and
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then you will see that the player
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is available on the generated site and
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you can basically watch the video so
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now in which cases is this not
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enough if we go
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to the video slash audio files page
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we can see that this video is
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very suitable for streaming for a few
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reasons one it is in a suitable
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resolution it is 1080p which is
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neither very large resolution
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nor a very low resolution so it's
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quite perfect for streaming actually it has
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sixteen megabyte here for about around one
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minute which is quite fine and as
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you can also see hyper 8 has
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determined it to have good browser support
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so hyper 8 it will do its best
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to determine whether a video is actually
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playable in the browser or not this
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one because it is encoded in
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H264
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is compatible with pretty much every browser
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out there and in such a case
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right you don't you do not necessarily
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need to process the video into different
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versions because this one is fine for
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streaming but if the video you upload
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is very large or has like a
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super high resolution which is not suitable
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for streaming or if it's just simply not
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very compatible with browsers then you would
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need to re-encode and this happens here re-encode
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this original video um into a new
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version and then also as another variant
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if you have a perfectly fine um
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streaming version already
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you might also decide to offer lower
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resolution versions so for instance instead of
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1080p you want to offer something
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like 720p or 480p
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so that people on either devices with
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smaller screens or just people who are
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on slower um slow internet connections or
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who just want to save bandwidth
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can also watch the video in a
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lower resolution and using less bandwidth and
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loading faster and so on and so forth and
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yeah and basically all of this is
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done here as already hinted at you
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basically just choose the resolution and if
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you want but this is totally optional
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you can also do tweaks here but
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in general it's not
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not really necessary or per se recommended because
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most settings are really um right where
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they belong maybe the most adjustable is
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quality and frame rate and then when
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you have chosen basically your resolution and
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possibly other settings then you just hit
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basically render so let's do this here
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and with this Hyper 8
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will automatically queue the job and
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as soon as a worker is available
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start processing it up here you can
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see the progress of that encoding process
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and as soon as that is finished
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the video will be available on here
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and also on the generated site in
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a preview then ok in the meanwhile we
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can already
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a request one more version why not
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and as you can see there's also
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the possibility to encode the video that
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you have uploaded into an audio version so
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when people then come to the video
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page they can choose an audio only
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streaming version as well to save extra
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bandwidth which um for instance makes sense
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if you offer something like a music
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video and people don't actually want to
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watch the video but just
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listen to the music in the background for
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instance that is perfect for this
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alright and i think all options are
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uh sorry all the videos are now rendered
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as you can see
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and at this point one more trick
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so to speak so for each of
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these videos you see that there is
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a field that says no usage restrictions
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and this can be used if you
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click that ah to
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apply certain use restrictions to each
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video so for instance if you uploaded
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a very large or very incompatible
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um original video you can set that
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to keep offline
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then it would not be uploaded on
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the resulting website and people would just
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see the other versions so that is
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another option if for instance if you
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have re-encoded the original version and don't want to
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delete it but keep it around then
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you can just keep it offline
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and yeah and you can also say
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that certain versions are for instance for streaming
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only or for download only like if it's
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too large for streaming or if it's
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something that is such a bad quality that
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you only want to offer it for
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streaming then these restrictions also make sense
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all right and at this point we
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can again
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preview the site
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and as we can see now we
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have in the version selector the
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720p and the 360p
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versions that we just encoded
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