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The following data is about Microsoft Stream (Classic) which will eventually be retired and replaced by Stream (on SharePoint). To start using the newer video solution today, just upload your videos to SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, or OneDrive. Videos stored in Microsoft 365 the way yous'd shop any other file is the ground for Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint). Learn more...


Upload a video

Uploading videos with Microsoft Stream (Classic) is easy and anyone can exercise it.

Start uploading videos

Click the Upload icon Upload icon. at the top of whatever folio or just drag and drop new videos to ane of your groups or channels. You can upload multiple videos at the same time and even browse Microsoft Stream (Classic) while your videos are uploading in the groundwork.

There are several options for uploading videos. Depending on where you start your uploads from, different default permissions will be set up on the videos, just you tin can always change them afterwards.

Encounter this commodity for in-depth information on video permissions.

Upload from any page

To upload from whatsoever page:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) portal, select Create > Upload a video or the upload icon from the superlative navigation bar

  2. Elevate and drop or select files from your computer or device.

    Create - Upload a video.

To upload from Videos page:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Archetype) portal, select My content > Videos from the top navigation bar

  2. Elevate and drop or select files from your computer or device

    Videos - upload.

Upload directly to a group or channel

To upload to a grouping:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) website, navigate to a grouping that you tin can contribute to

  2. Select the Upload video push button on the grouping's navigation bar or elevate and drop videos when on the group's Highlights or Videos tab

    Upload a video to a group.

To upload to a aqueduct:

  1. In the Microsoft Stream (Classic) website, navigate to a channel that you tin can contribute to

  2. Click Select more files or elevate and drop videos directly to the channel folio

    Upload a video to a channel.

While your video is uploading and processing, y'all can fill out metadata for the video to brand it easier to notice.

Details

Title & Description

Fill out the title and clarification for your video to requite your viewers context for the video. In the description field, you can add the following to make your video more interactive:

  • Time codes (H:MM:SS) - You tin can build an interactive tabular array of contents for the video past typing in the time codes of interesting points in the video. Viewers will exist able to click on these fourth dimension codes to bound to that indicate of the video.

  • #Hashtags - Add #hashtags to your video clarification as a lightweight customs manner to group similar videos together. Viewers will be able to click on the #hashtags and encounter other videos with the same tag.

  • Links - Paste in a web address in the description and viewers will exist able to click the link to open your address in a new folio when viewing the video.

Note

The title is limited to 100 characters. The clarification is express to 4,000 characters.

Video language

Select the linguistic communication spoken in the video. This will enable a closed caption file for supported languages to be automatically generated. In add-on, people with the correct license will be able to discover your video based on the text in this transcript.

For more data encounter:

  • Auto-generated captions
  • Deep search on what'south said in the video

Thumbnails

Automatic thumbnails are generated for the video after it's uploaded. When the frames from the video are generated, choose one to represent your video or upload your own custom epitome.

Details pane while uploading video.

Permissions

In the permissions section, you can control who tin can come across your video, who tin ain and edit it, and which groups and channels information technology's displayed in.

See this article for more in-depth information on video permissions.

Allow everyone in your company to view this video

When checked anybody in your arrangement can see the video and is able to add together it to their groups and channels. This, in effect, makes your video available for viewing companywide. To be able to add a video to a companywide channel, this bank check box must be checked.

When not checked, your video will simply exist viewable by those people and groups y'all've made viewers.

Shared with

Use the Shared with drop down to narrow your search scope and selection who yous want to share your video with.

  • Groups - search scope to add your video to a grouping that you tin contribute to.

  • Channels - search telescopic to add together your video to a channel direct, including companywide channels.

  • People - search scope to grant permission to individual people, AD Security Groups, and/or Microsoft 365 Groups that you don't accept contribute rights to.

Whatever person or group added will automatically exist granted view permission to your video. If you desire any of these Viewers to also be able to update your video, check the box adjacent to their entry in the Owner column to upgrade their permission.

The Display check box shows up for groups where you are a contributor. This controls if the video shows upwardly in the grouping's pages in Stream. If it'south non checked it means that the grouping has access if you send them a link or they found the video in search, simply it won't show upwards on their group's pages directly.

For more information near permissions, see Video permissions.

Permissions pane while uploading.

Options

In the Options section, you can command diverse settings for the video.

Comments

If y'all don't want users to be able to add together comments directly on the video player folio, set Comments to Off.

Captions

Closed captions are a text version, in the original language, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has a caption set, viewers tin can click the CC button on the histrion while watching a video to show the captions under the video.

If you've selected a supported Video language in the Details pane for the video, and then the Autogenerate a caption file check box volition be checked. This ways a caption file volition be automatically generated. In addition, people with the correct license will be able to discover your video based on the text in this transcript or your own uploaded closed caption file.

If you deselect the box, Autogenerate a caption file, then you tin can upload your ain airtight caption file in the WebVTT format.

For more data most captions, encounter:

  • Autogenerated captions
  • Deep search on what's said in the video
  • Subtitles and captions

Subtitles

Subtitles are a text version, translated into different languages, of what's spoken in the video. When a video has one or more subtitles set up, viewers tin can enable the the subtitles on the histrion while watching the video.

To upload 1 subtitle file per linguistic communication:

  1. Click Upload a subtitle file
  2. Select the linguistic communication the subtitle file is for
  3. Click Select file or drag and drop your subtitle file in the WebVTT format
  4. Select OK

For more data, run into the subtitle and captions article

Options pane while uploading.

Publish and playback

Once your video has been uploaded, and you are done setting up your video, yous can press the Publish now push at the bottom of the upload carte. This volition make the video available to those you've shared it with every bit presently equally it's washed processing. Press the title of the video on the top of the upload card to see the playback page for the video.

Publish now button.

To change anything near the video later you lot've published information technology, get to My content > Videos > More menu More menu icon. > Edit.

Processing fourth dimension is based on the length and resolution of your video. You won't be able to play the video until it'south done processing. See upload processing details for more information.

Select the Share icon Share icon on upload card. on the lesser of the upload bill of fare to re-create a link to the video, share on Yammer, or get the embed code for the video. For more information, see Sharing a video.

Share icon to upload video.

Supported upload formats

See supported file formats for more information on what kinds of videos can be uploaded.

Quotas and limitations

See upload quotas and limitations for more information on video, user, and company limits.

Troubleshooting

For common upload errors, run across Understanding upload errors.

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