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The following data is about Microsoft Stream (Archetype) which volition somewhen exist retired and replaced by Stream (on SharePoint). To showtime using the newer video solution today, just upload your videos to SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, or OneDrive. Videos stored in Microsoft 365 the mode you'd store whatsoever other file is the footing for Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint). Learn more than...


Upload a video

Uploading videos with Microsoft Stream (Classic) is like shooting fish in a barrel and anyone can practice it.

Start uploading videos

Click the Upload icon Upload icon. at the top of whatever page or but drag and drop new videos to i of your groups or channels. You can upload multiple videos at the same time and fifty-fifty browse Microsoft Stream (Archetype) while your videos are uploading in the groundwork.

There are several options for uploading videos. Depending on where you starting time your uploads from, unlike default permissions will be assault the videos, merely yous tin can always change them afterwards.

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

Upload from any folio

To upload from any page:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) portal, select Create > Upload a video or the upload icon from the summit navigation bar

  2. Drag and drop or select files from your calculator or device.

    Create - Upload a video.

To upload from Videos page:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) portal, select My content > Videos from the peak navigation bar

  2. Drag and drib or select files from your computer or device

    Videos - upload.

Upload directly to a grouping or channel

To upload to a group:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) website, navigate to a group that you tin can contribute to

  2. Select the Upload video button on the group'southward navigation bar or drag and drib videos when on the group's Highlights or Videos tab

    Upload a video to a group.

To upload to a channel:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) website, navigate to a channel that you lot tin can contribute to

  2. Click Select more files or drag and drop videos direct to the channel page

    Upload a video to a channel.

While your video is uploading and processing, yous tin can fill out metadata for the video to make it easier to find.

Details

Title & Description

Fill out the championship and description for your video to requite your viewers context for the video. In the description field, yous tin add together the post-obit to brand your video more interactive:

  • Time codes (H:MM:SS) - You can build an interactive table of contents for the video by typing in the time codes of interesting points in the video. Viewers will be able to click on these time codes to jump to that point of the video.

  • #Hashtags - Add together #hashtags to your video description as a lightweight community manner to group similar videos together. Viewers will be able to click on the #hashtags and see other videos with the same tag.

  • Links - Paste in a spider web address in the clarification and viewers will be able to click the link to open your accost in a new page when viewing the video.

Note

The championship is limited to 100 characters. The description is limited to four,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 addition, people with the correct license will be able to discover your video based on the text in this transcript.

For more information run into:

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

Thumbnails

Automatic thumbnails are generated for the video later it's uploaded. When the frames from the video are generated, choose one to stand for your video or upload your own custom image.

Details pane while uploading video.

Permissions

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

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

Permit anybody in your company to view this video

When checked everyone in your organisation can see 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 together a video to a companywide channel, this cheque box must be checked.

When non checked, your video will only be viewable past those people and groups y'all've made viewers.

Shared with

Utilize the Shared with drop downwardly to narrow your search telescopic and pick who you want to share your video with.

  • Groups - search scope to add your video to a grouping that you can contribute to.

  • Channels - search scope to add your video to a channel straight, including companywide channels.

  • People - search scope to grant permission to individual people, Advertizing Security Groups, and/or Microsoft 365 Groups that y'all don't have contribute rights to.

Any person or group added will automatically be granted view permission to your video. If you desire whatsoever of these Viewers to too be able to update your video, bank check the box adjacent 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 up in the grouping's pages in Stream. If it's non checked it means that the group has access if you send them a link or they establish the video in search, simply it won't show upwardly on their group'due south pages directly.

For more than information about permissions, see Video permissions.

Permissions pane while uploading.

Options

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

Comments

If you don't want users to exist able to add comments directly on the video thespian page, set Comments to Off.

Captions

Airtight captions are a text version, in the original linguistic communication, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has a caption set, viewers tin click the CC push button on the histrion while watching a video to prove the captions under the video.

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

If y'all deselect the box, Autogenerate a caption file, so y'all tin can upload your ain closed caption file in the WebVTT format.

For more data nigh captions, see:

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

Subtitles

Subtitles are a text version, translated into different languages, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has ane or more subtitles ready, viewers can enable the the subtitles on the thespian while watching the video.

To upload one subtitle file per language:

  1. Click Upload a subtitle file
  2. Select the language the subtitle file is for
  3. Click Select file or drag and drop your subtitle file in the WebVTT format
  4. Select OK

For more information, encounter the subtitle and captions article

Options pane while uploading.

Publish and playback

One time your video has been uploaded, and yous are done setting up your video, yous tin can press the Publish now button at the lesser of the upload card. This volition brand the video available to those you've shared it with as shortly as it's done processing. Press the championship of the video on the top of the upload card to run into the playback folio for the video.

Publish now button.

To modify anything near the video after you've published it, go to My content > Videos > More than menu More menu icon. > Edit.

Processing time is based on the length and resolution of your video. You won't be able to play the video until it's done processing. Meet upload processing details for more than data.

Select the Share icon Share icon on upload card. on the lesser of the upload bill of fare to copy a link to the video, share on Yammer, or get the embed code for the video. For more data, see Sharing a video.

Share icon to upload video.

Supported upload formats

See supported file formats for more information on what kinds of videos can exist uploaded.

Quotas and limitations

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

Troubleshooting

For common upload errors, see Understanding upload errors.

See also

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