Popup Video and Audio

Note: The preferred method for storing and sharing video content is YouTube. Once stored in YouTube, you can feature your video on your site by embedding it on a page, or creating a YouTube Widget.

In Cascade you can create a 'popup' page that includes a built in Flash media player. Typically this supplements a news story or feature page. The link that opens the popup window will be included in a shaded box just under the title of your news story or feature page.

Step 1: Store Your Video

The popup window requires a web-accessible .flv file.  Read about your storage options.

Step 2: Create the 'Popup'

The 'popup' window is literally a separate page and must be created as such.

1. Select New >> Your Department >> Folder With Popup Media
2. Enter a Display Name (proper case and spaces) and System Name (all lower case, no spaces). Click Submit. You'll notice this asset factory creates a folder with multiple files. Do not remove any files.
3. Click on the index page and click the edit tab.
4. Enter a title. In the Media Asset field, enter the the full, web-accessible url of your .flv file. It may look something like: http://media.wm.edu/content/wm/news/mymovie.flv
5.  Submit and publish your popup media folder.

Step 3: Add the 'Popup' Page to Your Feature or Story

1. Browse to and select your feature or news story page and click the Edit tab.
2. In the section Other Media, for the field Media Type select Video. For the Media field use the page chooser brackets [ ] provided to select the 'index' file of your popup media folder.
3. Submit.
4. Publish your feature or story. If you did not publish your popup media folder before, go back and publish it now.

Pssst. Want your popup to play a YouTube video?

To make a the popup play a YouTube video do this:

1. Skip Step 1 above.
2. Follow Step 2 up to the point where you edit the index file. Edit the index file, but leave the Media Asset field blank and in the Content box enter a slight variation of the YouTube embed code:
   
   {{youtube:size|video-id}}
   
   replacing "size" with "popup" and replacing "video-id" with your YouTube video id (the short string of letters and symbols that follow "v=" when you click "Share" on your video's YouTube page.)
3. Continue with Step 3 above.