Within your Atom template you have the facility to add a video to the homepage of your website.
This video is added, by firstly, uploading it to either YouTube or Vimeo and is then streamed from the platform itself when a user loads the site. As part of the ATOM platform we will also add a placeholder image to your website which outputs while the video is loading.
There are two ways in which your VIA software will be set up to manage this image if you would like to change it at any point.
1 - In VIA you will go to Pages>Video Pages then click on the ‘videos’ button. You will see a video code in the field 'Home YouTube Code' that is powering the homepage video. You can change the video at any point by adding a new YouTube or Vimeo URL to this field.
You will also see that there is an image attached to the ‘media’ uploader in this section of VIA, this is powering the mobile/tablet image that you see when going onto the homepage.
If you add an image to the media uploader and call it ‘homepage-transition’, this image will be the new image to be used while the homepage video loads. If an image isn’t added in VIA then the fall back option will be the YouTube or Vimeo thumbnail assigned to that video.
2 – In your VIA software you may alternatively have a video added through the ‘home’ page, in this instance you will have an item container with three slides above the fold for example.
If you have this homepage setup, there is a video added to the item container with a field called ‘Video Embed Code’ but now you will be able to use the media uploader in that item in order to add a transition image, which will be used while the homepage video loads. If an image isn’t added to this item in VIA, then again the fall back image is the YouTube or Vimeo thumbnail for that video.