Video Uploading

Plumi uses a three step form to for publishing. The process is relatively simple and requires uses to fill out basic information about their video (producer, director, date created etc.), categorise the video via a traditional taxonomy and also by tagging, attach a license to the work and then upload a photo (which is used as a thumbnail) and their video.

Plumi collects a moderately extensive set of data for users to fill out. Only some fields are currently compulsory. If you are a developer you can modify these fields to suit your own needs. In the future Plumi will be shipping with the  Transmission Metadata Standard. The most recent draft can be  downloaded here

Current fields include

• Title (Required)
• Description (Required)
• A short summary of the content
• Producer
• Director
• Producer's email address
• Producer's address details
• Project Name
• Production Company
• Website address
• Distributor
• Date produced (Required)
• Full Description of your film
• Country
• Genre
• Topics
• Tags
• License
• Video duration (Required)
• File name (Required)
• Thumbnail

If you are a developer you can modify these fields to suit your needs by subclassing to make a new content type with specific new elements (the schema) in  http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/ATVideo/branches/engage/content/engage.py

Before starting subclassing you should read -  http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/archgenxml-getting-started

Also check -  http://plone.org/documentation/faq/custom-types

Currently Plumi will accept most common (and some obscure) file formats. Some of these, such as wmv, mpg, mp4, mov, can be embedded in the browser for playback if they are encoded the right way. (For more info see VideoEmbedding?). PlumiIndyTube? will transcode most file formats to Flash and embed them in the browser for playback.

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• Enter exact list of file formats