Attach a video via Dropbox

[Ed_Cooper]

Can a video be attached to Airtable from Dropbox or a link to drop to it?

[Ed_Cooper]

Would a link to our website work ?
I’d have my graphics guy build a page which could be referenced.

[Ed_Cooper]

WE have a subscription to Screencat from Techsmith.
This is a public link with no password. I tried it in Airtable but it didn’t work, The link works from the browser command line:
“https://www.screencast.com/t/QeuBHmOT”

[Bill_French]

When I do this with your video URL, it works fine.

Justin_Barrett:

Video files won’t currently work as attachments, but you can put a Dropbox link into a URL field. Is that what you want?

As Justin made clear at the outset of this thread, video files will not work as attachments. Is that [perhaps] why it doesn’t work in your Screencast example?

To be clear - there are some nuances that are worthy of mention.

• Airtable DOES support video files as attachments, but it does not display them - ergo, it has no video player technology embedded in itself.
• Airtable DOES support the upload, storage, and retrieval of ATTACHED video files in the UI - you first need to download.
• Airtable DOES support the upload, storage, and retrieval of ATTACHED video files through the API.
• Airtable DOES support direct links to video files hosted on other platforms where such links are stored as URL fields.

Make sense?

[Ed_Cooper]

Did you attach the url inside Airtable from the place where you add an attachment and you can choose URL, Dropbox, Google Photos etc.?

That’s where I attached it.

Regards,

Ed Cooper

[Bill_French]

Ed_Cooper:

Did you attach the url inside Airtable from the place where you add an attachment and you can choose URL, Dropbox, Google Photos etc.?

I tested both with your Screencast video. Both tests worked in accordance with Airtable’s support and as I described in the bullets.

Video attachments do not play (for the reasons cited) but they are stored and can be downloaded for playing. Video links (in a field of type:LINK) also work and they play immediately in an adjacent browser tab.

[Ed_Cooper]

Ah.

I’ll try that and let you know the result.

Only in Airtable for 10 days.

Doing this application for myself.

I have been using QuickBase for years.

Entirely different.

Thanks so much for your help.

Regards,

Ed Cooper

[Ed_Cooper]

Bill,

Setting the field type as URL (link) is exactly what I need.

Works perfectly.

Thank you so much.!

[Bill_French]

You betcha! Good luck.

[One_Life_at_a_T]

Is this Ed Cooper the photographer?

[Ed_Cooper]

No sorry.

Regards,

Ed Cooper