Videos | Visual Space

A useful video often leads to something else: a creator's other work, a related demonstration, or a question in the discussion. Vids keeps those routes close to the player while giving the video itself room to play.

Studio's Analytics tab shows how people watch your videos. It helps you distinguish a video that attracted playback starts from one that held attention, and compare those patterns across your own uploads.

Vids is the place to watch community videos, browse Shorts, and follow live streams in Visual Space. A video keeps its creator's name while belonging to the public space where it was published. You can move from watching a demonstration to discussing it with the people who made it, without starting a separate conversation elsewhere.

Shorts is a quick way to explore community work one item at a time. Alongside short videos, it can show article postcards with pictures, playable media, or a text excerpt. A postcard is a window into the original contribution: its author, article, and discussion remain connected.

A space's video managers can remove public videos and streams that do not belong in their community. These controls appear in Studio under **Manage Space videos** for spaces where your role permits video management.

A live stream lets a community watch a broadcast and take part in its live conversation. Creators can send a prepared broadcast from OBS or another external encoder, or use the device camera and microphone where supported.

Watch a community video, collect useful clips, or prepare your own publication in Vids. Start with viewing, then move into Studio when you are ready to create.

Vids gives you several ways to return to content. Choose the one that matches your intention: retrace something you watched, keep a reminder, or build an ordered collection for yourself or other viewers.

Studio takes a finished video from a private draft to a public contribution in a community space. It brings your uploads and viewing analytics together, while keeping publication an explicit decision.

Publish a finished video or Short in a community space, with a clear title and a discussion viewers can return to. You need a signed-in account and permission to publish videos in a published public space.

Use this workflow when a public video or stream needs to be removed from a space you manage. You need that space's video-management permission; ordinary viewing or publishing permission is not enough. **Take down prevents the creator from editing or republishing the entry through Studio.** It also hides the attached article, and stops an active broadcast if the entry is live. This surface has no routine restore control. For a temporary revision of your own work, use Unpublish instead.

Choose the right editing path before changing an existing video. A watch-page description comes from the attached article, while the video's title, thumbnail, and file are managed in Studio.

Use Studio analytics to understand which of your videos people start, spend time with, and finish. The aim is a useful comparison across your own work, with the date range and each video's length kept in view.

Find a video, watch the part you need, and join its existing discussion. This is useful when a demonstration or community update leaves you with a question you want the creator and other viewers to see.

Create an ordered collection of public videos, then decide whether to keep it to yourself or share it. Sign in before starting: the playlist belongs to your account, even when it is public.

Prepare a live broadcast, make it public only after the source is ready, and finish with a deliberate replay decision. Sign in with video publishing permission in a published public space. Have either an external encoder such as OBS or a supported device camera and microphone ready.