Share videos and screenshots published to our hosting site

Sharing content published to our hosting site

1. Log into your ScreenPal account, and then click My dashboard in the top right corner of the page.

2. From the menu on the left, click Library to view all your ScreenPal content.

3. Hover over a video thumbnail and click Manage.

This opens a preview of the content and several tabs to the right for editing.

3. Click the Share Video tab (  )  tab to see the options for sharing your image or video.

Watch Pages

This area displays the Direct Link to your video. You can click  to copy this link to your clipboard, or click  to open your video in a new browser tab.

Under Custom Links, you can add a descriptive custom link for your video.

Click Add Custom Link, enter your link text in the box, and then click Save to generate your custom link. For example, if you enter capture-and-create in the text box and click Save, the app will generate a custom link that looks similar to go.screenpal.com/u/yxC2/capture-and-create. 

For more information, watch our Custom Links tutorial.

Please note that spaces are not supported in custom links.  The URL may only contain letters, numbers, dashes and underscores.

Watch Page - Player Controls

Click Select Player Options to choose the player options that will be available to members of your audience.

Click Manage Viewer Actions to determine which actions users will be able to take on your video.

Embed Options

This area enables you to customize and copy a snippet of code that you can use to embed videos on your own site.

Embed Code Size

Set the video embed size to preset options (1280px, 883px, 640px), a custom size, or choose responsive.

Select Player Options

Options for your embed include showing or hiding your video title, showing or hiding the timeline/transcript option, and showing or hiding the video player controls and captions by default.   You can also choose to make the video background transparent on the page where it's being embedded and select on oEmbed option.

Manage Viewer Actions

You can specify what actions a viewer can perform when viewing your video, including sharing the video directly to social media sites, downloading the video, getting an embed code of the video to embed on other pages, and copying a link to the video.

For more information about how to customize and use your embed code, watch our Embed Video Code tutorial.

Quick Share

You can also quickly access sharing options by clicking the Share button.

Info: Selecting the ScreenPal Mail option opens the dialog below and enables you to enter an email recipient and send them a link to your content from the email address associated with your ScreenPal account. You can also enter a custom message and choose to receive a notification when the recipient opens the video.

For more information about managing your video content, you can watch our Manage Video Content in Hosting tutorial.

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