In order to manually upload a video to Backstage, you must first set up side-loading. Please see the below guide if you have not set this up.
If you have set up your side-loading capabilities please move onto the below steps.
Adding a New video
Adding mandatory metadata metadata
From the video launch page select "Add New Video" on the top right-hand side of the screen.
This will bring you to the below screen. Please fill out all relevant information and hit continue
This will now bring you to the video details page
Here you must fill in the below mandatory fields and any other relevant metadata
VIDEO TITLE*
PRIMARY ARTIST(S)*
GENRE(S)*
To select which VEVO channel the video should be delivered to click add
Type out channel name in full including the VEVO suffix.
If Backstage recognizes the VEVO channel you will get a tick next to the channel name.
If you see the below message please double-check your channel has been created, more info about channel creation can be found here.https://support.vevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028262033-Requesting-VEVO-channels-
Then hit save
Uploading at Thumbnail
To upload a thumbnail select Assets<Thumbnail File< upload
This will give you the option to upload a file by dragging it into the box or by selecting from a file on your computer
Uploading a Video
To upload the video file by selecting Assets<Video File<Select video
This will bring up your S3 sideloading bucket where you are able to search in the top search bar by using the file name.
Select the video file you wish to use and hit continue.
Now the publish section will no longer be greyed out and you can choose to publish your asset without territory information or see the next section to add in the countries the video should be available in.
Adding Video Territories
You are able to publish without adding video territories but you will get the below warning message and please be aware your video will not go live until territories are added.
To add Territories you have rights in please go to the Distribution tab
Then type or paste in any country code you have rights in.
Or select add Remaining Countries if you have worldwide rights
You can also exclude any countries for delivery by adding them to to the block countries box.
Scheduling the Start Date and Time
You can also use the Distribution tab to set the Start Date and time of your Video.
Please note that if this is not updated the video will go live immediately.
To set the start date and time of your asset please click into the box underneath start time.
Use the calendar field to schedule the start date.
Use the drop-downs to schedule the start time.
Scheduling End Date and Time
You can also use the Distribution tab to set an End date and time for your video.
Once this date and time are reached this will set the video to private on youtube rather than fully deleting it.
This is a good way of retaining views and comments for a video that you no longer want live.
To set the end date and time of your asset please click into the box underneath end time.
Use the calendar field to schedule the end date.
Use the drop-downs to schedule the end time.
