How to Create Video Marquees
Marquees can contain videos as well as the typical image that most top-tier pages display. You can view some examples of this at rialto.gsu.edu and research.gsu.edu.
Adding videos is just as easy as adding an image. Under the Row Settings > Background section, select "YouTube Video" for "Background Style." Enter the URL for the video and make sure you have selected "Loop" and "Muted." Upload a "Placeholder Image" too.
General rules for a marquee background video:
- keep it roughly 10 to 15 seconds in length
- keep clip length around two to three seconds to avoid rapid scene changes or scenes running too long
- use footage that doesn't move a lot, is possibly slow-motion, and is clean and well-composed
- export videos out to a h264 media codec (1080 HD YouTube Preset in Adobe Premiere should be fine)
- videos need to be YouTube or Vimeo for implementation on site. If your unit doesn't have a Youtube or Vimeo account, you can submit a ticket (tickets@gsu.uservoice.com) with a PRM-Web Dropbox link to the video you need displayed and it can be loaded as an unlisted embedded video on the university's YouTube account.
- if you are hosting it on your YouTube or Vimeo account, make sure that embedding is "enabled" for the video and it's unlisted.
If you don't have an actual video but want something similar to what the Research and Rialto sites have, you can create a simple -- yet effective -- video with a series of photos. The Research Video is a compilation of 5-6 pictures using a Ken Burns effect (still photos slowly moving from one side to another or slowly zooming in or out, fading one into the next). The Rialto video uses 4 seconds per image with a one-second cross-dissolve transition.