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Inserting video

 
 
You an enhance your documentation by incorporating videos from popular services (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion) or by adding your own video files.
 
To insert a video, click button in the editor toolbar or use Ctrl+Shift+Y keyboard shortcut.
 
The following dialog window will appear:
 
Inserting video
To edit properties of an existing video, double-click it in the editor or right-click it and select Video properties... from the context menu.
 
1

Insert video from video service via URL

1. Insert video from video service via URL
 
Select this option and paste URL of the video from a supported video service: YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion. The preview image will be loaded into the preview section below.
2

Video box  dimensions

2. Video box  dimensions
 
Use this drop-down list to select from a list of common video sizes or select Custom size and type in video size in pixels manually.
3

Insert video via  embedding code

3. Insert video via  embedding code
 
You can copy embedding code from the video service and paste it into this field.
 
To insert a video from your website, paste this code:
 
<video controls
       src="http://your-website.com/videos/video.mp4"
       width="300"
       height="200">
    Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
</video>
 
Edit this code by changing text after src, width, and height. You can use relative path to the video: for example, if you put the video into folder named "videos" next to HTML files, you can specify "videos/video.mp4" after src.
 
If you use this option, preview image will be unavailable.
4

Video preview

4. Video preview
 
Here you can view the thumbnail of the video you added. When exporting to PDF or Word formats this image will be displayed in the exported document instead of the video. Clicking on the image will open a page with the video in the browser.
5

Insert

5. Insert
 
Press this button to insert video.
6

Cancel

6. Cancel
 
Press the button to close the dialog and to discard the changes.
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