Create and edit playlists

A playlist allows you to create a shareable collection of videos that play in sequence. Playlists are a great way to combine multiple videos that support each other and help to tell a larger story.

You can manage all actions related to playlists from the video library:

• Create new playlists
• Add or remove videos from an existing playlist
• Re-arrange the order of videos in a playlist

Requirements 

• Available Vidyard Free, Pro, Starter, Plus, and Enterprise accounts

Create a new playlist of videos

Users in a Vidyard Starter, Plus or Enterprise account must have the Create videos and playlists permission to perform this action. 

1. Select 2 or more videos from your library
   • If you select an existing playlist as one of the items from your library, the Create Playlist button will not appear
2. Click on the Create Playlist button to combine the videos into a new playlist

Add videos to an existing playlist

Users in a Vidyard Starter, Plus or Enterprise account must have the Create videos and playlists permission to perform this action. 

1. Select one or more videos from your library, then click on Add to Playlist
2. Choose the playlist that you want to add the video(s) to, then click Select to finish

Remove videos from a playlist

Users in a Vidyard Starter, Plus or Enterprise account must have the Create videos and playlists permission to perform this action. 

1. Select the title of a playlist in your library to open the edit page
2. Open the dropdown menu next to a video in the list
3. Select Remove

Change the order of videos in a playlist

Users in a Vidyard Starter, Plus or Enterprise account must have the Edit videos permission to perform this action. 

You can re-arrange the order of a playlist to adjust the sequence in which you want the videos to play.

Note that as you adjust the order of the videos, the playlist's settings may change.

1. Click on the title of the playlist in your library to open the edit page
2. Click and drag the videos in the list to change their order

About playlist settings and behavior

A playlist inherits its settings from the videos that belong to the list. As you add, remove, and re-order videos, the behavior of the playlist may change.

• The playlist thumbnail, its colors, and other settings (for example, autoplay) are always taken from the first video in the list. Update the first video's thumbnail or change the video's settings to affect the playlist.
• In product plans that include in-video CTAs (Vidyard Starter, Plus, and Enterprise), an action is tied to the position of the video its been assigned to. If you change the position of the video, the action follows.

Scroll down the playlist edit page to review a timeline of where Actions appear within the list. If needed, open the dropdown menu and select Edit to change or remove the Action from the video.