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Audio/Visual Content Type

If you have a video or podcast series that you'd like to feature on your site, or if you have a library of audio or video materials, the Audio/Visual content type is a great option for displaying this content. This guide will provide you with all the information you need to effectively display, organize, and highlight your great content using Stanford Sites' Audio/Visual content type . 

 

What is the Audio/Visual content type?

The Audio/Visual content type is designed for the purpose of featuring time-based media such as videos and podcasts on Stanford Sites. This content type aims to enable site authors to effectively display, list, and organize their media. Some key features include:

  • Visual display: This content type allows for creation of pages specifically intended for displaying rich media.
  • Metadata: Important metadata, such as duration, categories, and transcript files, can be incorporated, improving the usability and accessibility of your media.
  • Filterable Lists: Site authors have the ability to create filterable lists, making it easy for site visitors to discover content that meets their interests.
  • Teasers and Lists: Site authors can use Teasers and Lists to feature video, podcasts and other media effectively on landing pages, news articles, and more. 

When to use the Audio/Visual content type

Consider using this content type whenever you have time-based media to feature, need structured organization a collection of videos or podcasts, seek to improve accessibility, or want to enhance user engagement with your content.

Add an Audio/Visual item

In the administrative toolbar hover over All Content > Add Content >  and select Audio/Visual.

Audio/Visual fields

Learn more about how to add media and use this content types fields to structure information about your video, podcasts, and other media.

Click on the images below for labeled views of the edit screen.

  1. Title (Required).
  2. Dek: A brief summary that appears below the headline - in smaller font - on the list page and on the Audio/Visual page. Maximum 500 characters.
  3. Series: If your media is part of a series, you can indicate that here.
  4. Season: This is useful for organizing episodes within larger series, allowing users to easily follow along with ongoing content in an order.
  5. Episode: This helps in listing content chronologically within a Season and makes navigation easier for site visitors if your content has an order.
  6. Duration: (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) This section allows you to enter the total runtime of the primary audio or video content. For example, if your content is 21 minutes long, you would fill in "0" hours, "21" minutes, and "0" seconds.
  7. Published Date: The date when the media content will be published or was made public. This date is used in sorting the the individual items in a list.
  8. Audio/Visual Types: This is a taxonomy field that can be used together with the List Paragraph to create lists of Audio/Visual content filtered down to a specific category.
  9. Audio/Visual Filters: This is a taxonomy field that can be used together with the Filtered List Paragraph to create an interactive filtered list of Audio/Visual content. This taxonomy is only available to Site Managers. Learn more in our guide to setting up filters.
  10. Featured Image: This image will display in Teasers, Filtered Lists, and Lists, and will be used as a preview image when the item is shared in social media and other platforms that support link previews.
  11. Audio/Video: This is a required field.This is where you add your media. You may add multiple items. The first item will be the primary piece of Media. All subsequent items will appear in a list below the main item. You have two choices:
    1. Video. This supports YouTube and Vimeo. You only need to enter the URL of your video or select an existing video from your Media Library.
    2. Embeddable. This supports any embeddable media, including popular podcast platforms, Stanford Digital Repository, and other rich media options that use embed codes. Learn more about how to add these on our guide to embeddable content.
  12. Media Category: If you have a variety of media (videos, podcasts, or other types of content, selecting a "category" will display a small chip in Lists and Teasers that will indicate to the site visitor what type of content is available on that page.
  13. Related Person: You can easily add media in a "Related Media" section on any profile pages on your site. Just start typing a name to select one or more Person profile pages on your site.
  14. Body. You can add additional information, a description, a transcript, or any other text in the Body field.
  15. Subtitles. This field re-uses your .srt caption files to automatically create a human-readable transcript.
  16. External Source. If you don't want to feature the video or other media directly on your site, use this field to direct users to an external service or site by entering the URL. (This must be an external URL such as https://example.com.)

Example of the Audio/Visual page display