Video Guidelines
Video Dimensions
Western Communications has created instructional guides to help the campus web community incorporate art work in the new Cascade templates. These guides and dimensions are applicable to the 2017 templates' design.
Please ensure that none of your videos are greater than 1 MB.
Embedding video sources
YouTube
Every YouTube video has an embed code that you can add to your website. You access it by...
Note: you should only embed public videos to ensure you're not sharing a file you shouldn't be. You can find the urls of files you'd like to share with others in that video's dashboard in YouTube.
Editing the YouTube embed dimensions
You can use a tool like Aspect Ratio Calculator to help you figure out what size you'd like your video to display at so as to preserve its aspect ratio. The best way to do this is to first determine what the width of your video will be. Once you know that, visiting that tool will help you determine the height.
If you find the result gives you a decimal number, round the number down.
Livestream
Every public Livestream.com video has an embed code that you can add to your website. You can access it by...
Editing the Livestream embed dimensions
By default Livestream's embed code sets the dimensions of videos to
You can use a tool like Aspect Ratio Calculator to help you figure out what size you'd like your video to display at so as to preserve its aspect ratio. The best way to do this is to first determine what the width of your video will be. Once you know that, visiting that tool will help you determine the height.
If you find the result gives you a decimal number, round the number down.
Creating Videos
Aspect ratios to keep in mind
| Commonly referred to as | Actual dimensions |
| 1080p | 1920x1080 |
| 720p | 1280x720 |
New videos should be created at 1080p whenever possible. This is the most common, current high-resolution format of videos.
Exporting your video
When saving the file from your video editing software (ie: Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro) you should export the file with h.264 compression. This is the current industry standard and will ensure your video can be deployed on any platform.
