Managing Video Assets

In the Digital Assets folder (or sub-folders), navigate to the location where you want to add digital assets.

To upload the asset, click or tap Create from the toolbar and then choose Files. Alternatively, drop it directly in the assets area. See Uploading assets for details around the upload operation.

To preview a video in the Card view, click the Play button on the video asset.

You can pause or play video in the Card view only. The Play/Pause button is not available in the list view.

Click or tap the Edit icon on the card to preview the video in the asset details page.

The video plays in the native video player of the browser. You can play, pause, control the volume, and zoom the video to full screen.

In AEM, tap Tools > General > CRXDE Lite.

In the CRXDE Lite page, in the directory window on the left, navigate to /jcr_root/apps/dam.

You may need to touch the >> icon to see the directory window.

In the /jcr_root/apps/dam folder, use the Create drop-down list to create a node with the following directory structure:
/gui/content/assets/_jcr_content/body/assetscontent/header/items/items/fileupload

After you create the node, the full path appears as the following:

/jcr_root/apps/dam/gui/content/assets/_jcr_content/body/assetscontent/header/items/items/fileupload

Select the fileupload node, then in the Properties tab, enter the following property value:

{sizeLimit : "32212254720"}

In the upper-left of the CRXDE Lite page, touch Save All.

The following is a snippet for the node in XML representation:

In AEM, tap Tools > Operations > Web Console.

On the Adobe Experience Manager Web Console Bundles page, under the Name column of the table, locate and tap Adobe Granite Workflow External Process Job Handler.

In the Adobe Granite Workflow External Process Job Handler page, set the seconds for both Default Timeout and Max Timeout fields to 18000 (5 hours).

Tap Save.

In AEM, tap Tools > Workflow > Models.

On the Workflow Models page, select DAM Update Asset, then tap Edit.

On the DAM Update Asset workflow page, double-tap the Dynamic Media Video Service Process component.

In the Step Properties dialog box, under the Common tab, expand Advanced Settings.

In the Timeout field, specify a value of 18000, then tap OK to return to the DAM Update Asset workflow page.

Near the top of the page, below the DAM Update Asset page title, tap Save.

From the Assets console, click or tap the Edit icon on the asset card to display the asset details page.

Click or tap the Preview icon to play the video. 

To annotate the video, click the Annotate button. An annotation is added at the particular timepoint (frame) in the video.

While annotating, you can draw on the canvas and include a comment with the drawing. Comments are automatically saved in Adobe Experience Manager Assets. 

To exit the annotation wizard, click Close.

To jump to a specific point in the video, specify the time in seconds in the text field and click Jump. For example, to skip the first 10 seconds of video, enter 20 in the text field.

Cick an annotation to view it in the timeline. Click Delete to delete the annotation from the timeline.