Media Metadata

The Video Cloud Studio provides real-time, relevance-ranked search from the top right of the Media module that returns a focused list of videos so that you more easily examine and edit them. The Media module search allows for quick searches in a text box where you can search for videos across all supported video fields, or advanced searches where you can search by a specific video field, and narrow results by combining multiple criteria for more than one field.

How to make sure that your videos have the metadata needed by your business requirements before they are activated.

Objective: Provide thumbnail and still images from your videos.

How to capture and configure still images for your videos.

Bumpers are short video clips that can be added to a video or to a player.

How to create and edit custom metadata fields using the Account Settings > Video Fields page in the Video Cloud Studio.

In this topic, you will learn about cue points and how to add them to your videos.

A cue point is a marker at a precise time point in the duration of a video. You can use cue points to trigger mid-roll ads (that is, ads that occur during playback of the video content, like a commercial break) or to separate chapters or scenes in a long-form video.

There are two types of cue points:

You can set cue points in a video using the Video Cloud Media module. For general information about cue points and the other techniques you can use to set and modify them, read Adding Cue Points to Videos.

This topic describes how to use the Media module for the following actions:

How to use the Media API to set and get custom metadata for your videos.