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Adding a video to an immersive email

Emails, as a medium, do not support embedded videos. Sending videos as attachments are also a bad idea, as videos are very large in size and the recipients of your email will not appreciate the lengthy download of their email and their in-box being clogged up.

The “correct” method for addressing this limitation is to add an image (“thumbnail”) of your video to your email, and to make that image a link to the video file, which then streams via a web browser. This is all achieved nice and easily through GymOS, without needing to use 3rd party apps to create thumbnails etc.

To add a video to your immersive email, follow these steps:

  1. Select FitFlix Video Library from the Libraries section of the main navigation menu.
  2. If you have not done so previously, we would recommend creating a folder for your email videos, to keep your FitFlix library tidy:
    1. Click the Add Folder button.
    2. Enter a suitable name for the folder. E.g., “Videos for immersive emails”.
    3. Optionally, enter a suitable description for the folder. E.g., “Videos used/embedded in immersive emails”.
    4. Click the icon to add the folder.
    5. Click on either the folder name or the icon next to the newly created folder to open that folder.
  3. Click the Upload Video button.
  1. Click the Select button and select the mp4 video that you wish to upload from your device.
  2. It may take up to a couple of minutes for the video to upload and complete processing, depending on the video size. Once completed, the “update a video” page will display.
  1. By default, the name used will be that derived from the filename you uploaded. Change this to something more appropriate/meaningful as you see fit and press the Save button. This wll return you to the folder listing.
  1. Click the View Video link next to the newly uploaded video. This will open the video preview page.
  1. Click the Download thumbnail link, and save the image that GymOS creates to your device.
  2. Click the Copy raw video URL link, which will copy the URL of the video to your device’s clipboard.
  3. Return to editing your immersive email.
  4. Add an image element of your choosing from the pre-created template elements.
  5. Click the Change Image icon, and select the thumbnail from your device that you downloaded in step 8.
  6. Click the Link icon and set the Link URL to be the one you copied from step 9. Check the Open New Window box.
  7. Click Ok to close the image dialog and complete your email accordingly.
  8. Make sure you test your immersive email and video using the Test Send function.
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