Setting up hosting

Setting up hosting

Setting up and customizing hosting

Free and Deluxe Users

If you are a Free or Deluxe (including Team Deluxe) user you have access to our free hosting services that enable storing, customization and sharing your image and video content.  You can configure options in hosting.

1. Login to your account 
2. Click you user icon in the upper right, then click Settings.
3. On the left navigation menu bar click Content Hosting.



4. You have several settings on this page:
  1. you can enable or disable the commenting section shown on videos which allows your viewers to comment on videos they are viewing.  If disabled you won't be able to enable this feature for any videos in your library.

  2. if you have commenting enabled, you can also set any new video uploads to be enabled for commenting.  You can visit Video Details to disable for specific videos.
  3.  you can hide the publish date on all videos and images so that the date won't be show to viewers of videos.  If you have this enabled, you won't be able to change for specific videos in your library.  If disabled, you can enable or disable for each video in your library by visiting Video Details and then Publishing Options.

Solo Premier, Solo Max and Team Plans

If you have a Solo Premier, Max Premier, Team Plan (except for legacy Team Deluxe), then you have many more features available in hosting that allow you to personalize the viewer's experience.  Channels and homepages can be fully customized with your branding. Branding options can include subdomain/CNAME, company name, company logos, video player colors, and customized video landing page.

Note: To change some of the settings for a Team Plan, you must be an Account Oner or Administrator.

1. Login to your account 
2. Click you user icon in the upper right, then click Settings.
3. On the left navigation menu bar click Content Hosting.



Hosting: Site Setup.  Select your hosting domain

Use the options under Site Setup to determine whether users will use a custom domain to access your videos, a subdomain using screencasthost.com, or if your video links will point to ScreenPal.com.   If you choose to point users to our site, you can still customize the logo that will be displayed on video and channel pages.

No Custom Website 
Links to the videos you upload will be accessed from ScreenPal.com.

Subdomain on ScreencastHost.com
Selecting this option enables you to customize a subdomain on screencasthost.com. For example, "YourCompanyName.ScreencastHost.com".

CNAME from your domain
Use this option to map your own subdomain, or website (for example, video.mysite.com) to your selected content homepage. You can also click the link beside this option to request an SSL Certificate for a more secure HTTPS site.
Click on the support article below for assistance with setting up a CNAME: 

Hosting: Content


In the Content Section, you can:
1. Specify a Page Title (if you upload a page log in the Branding and Customization section then the logo will be used instead of your Page Title.
2. Require Login to view content.  If you set this to require Team Member login to view content then all images and videos will require login before viewing.   Your Team Members can't over-ride this in Video Details.  You can also set this to allow the Content Owner to determine content access settings via Visibility Settings in Details.

Hosting: Commenting



In the Commenting area of Settings you can:

1. Enable or disable the commenting section shown with videos which allows your viewers to comment on videos they are viewing.  If disabled you won't be able to enable this feature for any videos in your library.
2. If you have commenting enabled, you can also set any new video uploads to be enabled for commenting.  You can visit Video Details to disable for specific videos.
3. You can hide the publish date on all videos and images so that the date won't be show to viewers of videos.  If you have this enabled, you won't be able to change for specific videos in your library.  If disabled, you can enable or disable for each video in your library by visiting Video Details and then Publishing Options.

Hosting: Branding and Customization

To use a company logo, select the Use Logo checkbox. Next, click the Upload Logo button to upload your logo image.

Note: The recommended logo dimensions are 400px x 100px and the max upload size is 2MB.



If you do not have a logo and would like to use your company name instead, enter it in the Page Title box located in the Content section above. 

Homepage display

If you specify a Subdomain or CNAME in the Site Setup section, then your viewer watch page content and any associated url will use that subdomain (i.e. mysubdomain.screencasthost.com or mycname.com).   You also get a dedicated Home Page to present curated content to your users or Team.

Use the Home Page drop-down list to select the items that will displayed on your team's homepage.


Available options are:

Show a blank page
Show a channel (which enables you to choose a channel when selected)
Show most recent uploads
Show a list of channels

Player Customization 



From this area, you can add a custom image, logo, or icon to be displayed on all your Team's images, videos and Home Page. Uploading this image from the Content Hosting area displays the uploaded image on all videos for all members of your Team. To upload an image, click the Upload Logo button and select a file. Next, select the image or logo's position on your videos by selecting one of the boxes under Position on Video. 

To enable your Team's users to upload their own logos or images and customize the branding of their own content, select the Allow team users to customize the branding of their videos checkbox. If you do not select this check box, the Player Branding area on the Video Details tab will be disabled for all Team members, as seen in the image below (users will not be able to switch the toggle to the ON position):



Under Player Color, you can also change the video player color palette to match your organization's logo and branding. 



If you'd like to allow the members of their team to select their own player color palette, select the Allow team users to customize their videos checkbox. If you clear this checkbox, the Player Customization section on the Video Details tab will be disabled for users on your Team.

You can view the following tutorial for more information about customizing the video player:

When you are finished modifying these settings, click Update Video Hosting Settings to apply your changes. 




If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact our support team directly by using the link below. Click Submit a Ticket and provide us with a brief description of your concern. We will contact you within 24 hours.


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