Media · Video macro
Show the bug once, instead of describing it in six paragraphs
With the Video macro the bug as it happens, the feature as it feels or the step nobody can follow from text plays on the Confluence page, next to the words that explain it. Your readers watch the thing instead of reconstructing it - and nobody transcodes a clip to publish it.
Your readers watch the repro instead of reconstructing it
Bug reports, onboarding walkthroughs, demos: a reader watches the thing happen instead of rebuilding it from numbered steps. Attach the recording and it stays a download nobody opens; embed it and your page answers the question on its own.
Nobody transcodes a clip before publishing it
MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV and OGG all play, so what came out of the screen recorder, the phone or the conferencing tool goes on the page as it is. You skip the conversion, and so does everyone who publishes after you.
Short interactions become silent, looping illustrations
A three-second interaction is better as a loop than as a clip someone has to restart. Set it to autoplay muted and repeat, and it behaves like an animated illustration in the middle of your text - no sound ambushing anyone in an open office.
You stop fighting attachment limits with heavy files
Large files are exactly what attachment limits are worst at. Point the macro at the video where it already sits - an attachment, a URL, Google Drive, or a credentialed S3, SFTP or database connection an admin set up once - and your page plays it without hosting a copy.
What the other video apps cannot play for you
The video apps for Confluence embed a platform: YouTube, Vimeo, Microsoft Stream. That is fine for a public launch clip and useless for the recordings that matter to you internally - the bug repro, the customer call, the walkthrough that is never going on YouTube. This macro plays your own file, from your own storage: an attachment, a URL, Google Drive, an S3 bucket or an SFTP server, with nothing uploaded to a video service to make it playable.
Video is one of 31 macros in Macro Pack
One app to install, one licence to renew, one place your team learns - and 30 more formats it already reads, from spreadsheets and diagrams to API specs and documents.
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