You can upload your own media files to your project in Video Editor: video, audio, and image files. You can upload several files of different types at once, or start with just one and upload the others later.
Supported file formats
Refer to this article to see the list of formats supported by Video Editor and other Clideo tools.
Supported file locations
You can upload the files from the following locations:
- Local computer or mobile device storage
- External drives (USB flash drive or external hard drive)
- Media devices connected to your computer (phone, tablet, camera)
- Cloud storage accounts (Google Drive, Google Photos, Dropbox)
You cannot upload files directly from CDs
Uploading files to Video Editor
To upload files, do one of the following:
- To upload from your device, in the navigation sidebar, click the + icon.
- Copy and paste files from your device, or take a screenshot and paste it into the editor.
- Drag and drop files from a folder on your computer or laptop into the editor.
- To upload from one of your storage accounts, in the navigation sidebar, click Media, and then click the Google Drive, Google Photos, or Dropbox icons.
- To record audio or video in your browser, in the navigation sidebar, click Media, and then click the Record icon or click Record in the navigation sidebar.
- To add TTS, in the navigation sidebar, click Media, and then click the Text to Speech icon or click TTS in the navigation sidebar.
You can drag and drop files to the webpage from folders on your computer or external drives only.
Browsers do not support dragging and dropping from folders of media devices (phone, tablet, camera) connected to your computer. You will get the error message: Unfortunately, some of the provided files are not supported.
To enable drag and drop to the webpage, transfer the files from your media device to your computer or external drive first.
To view the uploaded files, in the navigation sidebar, click Media.
To remove files from Media, hover over the media thumbnail and click the Delete icon at the top right of the thumbnail. If a file is currently used in the project, all its instances will also be removed from the project along with their settings.