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How to upload videos in your flipbooks

Embed videos directly into your flipbooks for a richer reading experience.

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Overview

Using videos in your flipbooks helps attract attention, engage readers, and convey your message more effectively. You can upload videos directly from your device into the Design Studio—no external hosting is required.

Requirements: 

  • Plan: Starting from the Professional plan

How to upload videos in your catalogs

To upload a video, you can enter the flipbook in the Design Studio, then click on the Uploads tab and click on Upload media. An overlay will open where you can search and select the video file you want to upload.

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URL videos 

The URL option allows you to embed videos hosted on external platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, or other supported sources directly into your flipbook.

After you added a Video embed, an edit panel will open on the left side of the Design Studio, where you can set play options for the video.

  • Hide background: Removes any default background color behind the video for a cleaner look.

  • Show controls: Enables the video player controls (play, pause, volume, etc.) for viewers.

  • Autoplay: Automatically starts the video when a reader reaches the page.

  • Mute: Plays the video without sound (required for autoplay due to browser restrictions).

  • Loop: Repeats the video continuously. 

Important: Due to browser limitations, autoplay with sound is only available for desktop flipbooks. For mobile devices, videos set to autoplay will play muted by default.

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Once your flipbook is published, your readers can play the video on the page they are viewing. Below you can see an example:
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Important: You can only upload videos in MP4 or GIF formats with a maximum size of 1 GB.

Uploaded video files

You need to click on the Upload, insert the video and you can set the play options the the tooltip text. 

upload from your media library the video that applies on the page

Change the cover, delete, or download the video

Click on the Uploads tab on the left side of the Design Studio.  Hover your mouse over the image or video you want to download or delete, then click on the 3 dots icon in the upper-right corner of the thumbnail and select the desired action. edit cover video in Flipsnack-mh

Choose from the available options:

    • Edit cover – Change the thumbnail for easier identification.

    • Download – Save the video file to your device.

    • Delete – Permanently remove the file from your library.

 

Note:  The same process applies if you want to add the Video button.

 

How to edit the video thumbnail (cover image)

If you want to set a specific frame to be displayed in your library so you can recognize the video easier, just select Edit cover to change the thumbnail, from the Uploads tab.

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An overlay will open—select your desired frame and then click Change to update the thumbnail.

 

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