With Brainshark, you can incorporate video files directly into your presentation as a standard slide or as a downloadable attachment. Adding video files to your presentation increases viewer engagement by including dynamic multimedia content alongside your other materials. This article is for authors.

See how it looks

Key features

• Incorporate video files directly into the Brainshark player as a slide
• Upload videos as attachments that open outside of the player
• Combine video and standard slides to create a dynamic learning experience

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• Roles & Privileges: Author
• Folder Permissions: Author for at least one folder.

Do this step by step

Open the presentation editor

1. To add a video to your existing presentations, click Content in the top menu and select My Content.
2. Search and filter your Presentations to locate the presentation you'd like to edit.
3. Click the three dot menu on the presentation and select Edit.

Add a video as a slide:

You can record or upload a video to incorporate into your presentation. An uploaded video can be in MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WEBM, or WMV format and up to 500MB in size. 

1. Click the Slides drop-down menu.
2. Click Video, then select Upload video or Record video to record a new one.
3. Choose the video file from your device.
4. Wait for the video to process. After processing, your video will appear as a slide in the slide list.

Add a video as an attachment:

1. Click Tools and select Manage assets.
2. Click Upload file and drag and drop or browse a video file from your device
3. Optionally, update the title, then click Add.

Note: Video files uploaded as attachments will open in a separate browser window, outside of the Brainshark player.