Video Interaction Item

While it's been available for some time in stealth mode, we've enhanced the capability to upload a video to an interaction item, rather than a clip and then play it on top of the clip.

As a clickable interaction item, this video can then be used as a submit button, or choice button, or whatever click action you want, including toggling play/pause on this video itself. It can also be animated to move across the screen, though that may be a little weird. The result XML is the same as for any clickable button.

This capability lets you inject small videos on top of your clips, either to achieve the interactivity you are looking for, or to enhance your multiple choice items with multiple video choices, or to allow you to reduce the bandwidth required to view a clip with the video presentation you are looking for.

Keep in mind that mobile devices introduce some complications for videos on top op video or audio clips.

• Mobile devices may not play any video or audio without a positive 'click' from the viewer. This means, you will need to insert a play/pause button to play the video (you can make the video itself the play/pause button, so clicking on the video makes it play. For video interaction items, ClicFlic will not create this button for you if it's needed (ClicFlic does do this on clips).
• Many mobile devices play only one video at a time (iPad). So, if you start a video interaction item on top of a video clip, the video clip will stop playing. 
• Some mobile devices play video outside of the web browser in it's own full screen player (iPhones, Opera on Android, Android browser). In this scenario, video interaction items will not work at all if the underlying clip also has a video.

So, clearly, if you plan on mobile devices, a video interaction item can be tricky and may not be the best solution.

To create a video interaction item, select 'Video Button' as the interaction item format for an interaction item. Then go to Main Menu -> Create -> Upload media to upload your videos.