How to handle large video uploads in Webflow with partial gating while maintaining custom branding? Answered

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  Chukwudi

  • May 18, 2023 11:26

  File/Image upload feature is currently scheduled for development in our roadmap. Currently planned for sometime in 2023.
  We are also working on documentation for solutions using 3rd party tools such as UploadCare, Webflow's upload field, etc.
  Please like/follow this feature in the wishlist to get notified when we've released short-term and long-term solutions to this problem.

  However, if you're looking to go through the Zapier route, that could still work for you. You may have to check out our article on Zapier integration here to get started.

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  Ramon Daniel

  • May 18, 2023 11:26

  Thanks Chuk

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  d yashovardhan

  • November 23, 2024 10:50

  I am not sure if this question has been answered anywhere, but I was wondering if it's possible to partially gate a video (lets say the first 90 seconds are visible to everyone). Is it possible to implement in webflow?

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  Shadi null

  • November 23, 2024 10:50

  I would suggest just having 2 different videos (for security vulnerability reasons).
  1 video is the full video (only visible if they are on the premium plan)
  1 90 second edit (this is only available if you're not on a premium plan)

  if you're planning on just uploading 1 video and then previewing the first 90seconds from the full video, I would be concerned about the approach. If it's done through JS on the front-end, anyone can inspect the page and play the full video by changing your JS and watch the full video. However this is only a problem if you're planning on trimming videos via javascript through the user's browser

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  d yashovardhan

  • November 23, 2024 10:52

  Thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking of using secure - server side validation enabled solution. We have literally thousands of videos, so anything which reduces the workload is welcome :-)

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  Shadi null

  • November 23, 2024 10:53

  Oh that's a much safer approach. I totally understand why you'd want to automate the process, especially if you're talking thousands of videos.

  Maybe consider using FFMPEG like this github repo? I think this might be a good place to start - https://github.com/buggedcom/phpvideotoolkit-v2

  You'll have to customise it a little to trim the first 90 seconds of the clip

   

  Something along the lines of

   

  namespace PHPVideoToolkit;
  
  
  
   $video = new Video('path_to_your_uploaded_video.mp4'); 
  
  
  
  // Define the start and end timecodes for the segment you want to extract 
  
  $start = new Timecode(0); // Start at the beginning of the video 
  
  $end = new Timecode(90); // End at 90 seconds 
  
  
  
  // Extract the segment and save it as a new file 
  
  $process = $video->extractSegment($start, $end) 
  
  ->save('path_to_save_trimmed_video.mp4'); 
  
  
  
  $output = $process->getOutput();

   

  You'd have to worry about timecodes though, make sure all videos start with the same timecode, otherwise it'll get a little more complicated as some studios embed custom timecodes like 01:00:00:00 as the starting timecode whereas others use 00:00:00:00 as the starting timecode
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  d yashovardhan

  • November 23, 2024 10:55

  Thanks, really helpful!

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