User Guide for 23 Video

23 Video is easy to get at. With just a few steps you can start your own video site and shortly after you'll be uploading videos, adding channels, inviting colleagues and applying your own design.

In this User guide we will help you to get started with 23 Video. We'll guide you through not just uploading your first videos, but also help you set up and style your site. We'll give you tips on how to best distribute your video and provide you with a few pointers as to how best to maintain your web video site.

The guide is based on video tutorials, which means that we'll be able to show you how to solve your problem quickly instead making you read through tireless manuals. Getting to work with your 23 Video site is pretty straightforward, so dig into the video demos below and let yourself get inspired.

Starting up your web video site

• Setting up a site: Starting your own web video site literally takes less than 2 minutes. Get the proof here in this demo, which takes you through the sign up process and the basic setting up of the web-tv site.
• Changing the domain: Make your 23 Video site into an integrated part of your website by using your own domain name. Setting up the domain is actually quite easy too!

Working with your video site

• Organizing video with channels: On your site you can organize your programmes or videos into channels. You can create themed video channels or give your users have their own channels.
• Uploading video: The upload process is very simple − in a few clicks you can add video to your site. Upload in any video format and the 23 Video engine will handle the rest.
• Adding users: There is not limit as to how many collaborators or users you can have on your site 5 or 500. Give a couple of your colleagues or friends access to your site and let them publish video to your site.

Distributing your video

• Publishing your videos: You don't necessarily have to publish your videos right away. Set a publish date and the videos will be published automatically when the time comes.
• Embedding video: You can embed your videos, your channels or even your entire site on your blog or website.
• Set up your podcast: Make your videos available for podcasts and let your vievers play your videos on iPods, iPhones, Apple TV and lots other mobile devices.
• Distributing to Facebook: Make your videos available for sharing and playback on Facebook
• Enabling Boxee: Create a lean-back experience with your videos through Boxee.

Statistics and analytics

• Analytics and statistics: Find out exactly how popular your videos are, by keeping a close eye on the statistics that 23 Video are gathering for you.

Questions, examples, or comments?

It is our aim to make publishing video as easy and user friendly as possible. We'll be continuously adding to and expanding our support section with more detailed guides for users and for developers.

If what you see here on these pages aren't quite enough or if you feel the need for more examples of how to do things with 23 Video, then please comment on the articles − or post in the support forum.