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#1 Re: Backlight Support » Video in Backlight » 2017-07-23 11:39:34
I believe Lightroom can Export videos, but that's not the same as Lightroom's Publish service publishing video.
This topic of videos in an album has come up several times in the past, if Lightroom allowed it, Matt and Ben would have implimented it long ago.
Well, as I said, I did use LR 'Publish Services' to 'Publish' a video to Facebook. How is that different?!
#2 Re: Backlight Support » Video in Backlight » 2017-07-23 07:13:48
As Matt pointed out, Lightroom Publisher doesn't support publishing of videos. That's the the limitation Backlight has to scope with.
Interesting...
Lightroom can Publish videos to Facebook! Perhaps Backlight's LR plugin type has different restrictions? It's been a while since I wrote a LR plugin, so I don't recall the issues. Regardless of how videos get published/exported, providing a mechanism to include them in the same album as images seems like a reasonable feature to aspire to in the future! 
Thanks for listening!
#3 Re: Backlight Support » Video in Backlight » 2017-07-23 02:32:16
Thanks for the response!
Yes, I saw the example, but could not determine how it was constructed. So the "Theater Demonstrations" page is actually an 'Album Set' and not an 'Album'? And each item on that page links to an 'Album' with a single media item? That's worse than I thought.
You might consider the following user scenario/feature:
The user publishes the video from Lightroom. H.264 is a suitable (indeed desirable) format. If not, it can be converted/resized on the server, e.g. with tools like FFmpeg. The preview image could be published as a separate item or extracted from the video. Videos then sit as equals with images as part of an album. They certainly land in different HTML when clicked upon, but you're already handling that.
Your current architecture or methodology may make this difficult. But it is conceptually straight-forward and commonly done this way.
#4 Backlight Support » Video in Backlight » 2017-07-22 14:59:42
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I'm evaluating Backlight as a replacement for my current online gallery package. Video is an important media type for me. Lightroom treats video as a first class media type, right alongside still photo images. But the only mention I see in the (very limited) Backlight documentation is in the Theater add-on which, as best I can tell, simply provides an additional Album Template type. This injects some confusion between an album type and a media type! Does a theater album support all the same functionality -- like the different grid layouts -- as the other album types? Or does including video content somehow reduce the options for an album?
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