Publish hosted video layers

You can publish hosted video layers from video files and supported metadata files using ArcGIS Excalibur. To publish hosted video layers, you must have the appropriate privileges to create, update, and delete video layers.

Note:

ArcGIS Excalibur requires an add-on license and additional installation. To learn more, see ArcGIS Excalibur system requirements.

Complete the following steps to publish a hosted video layer using ArcGIS Excalibur:

1. On the ArcGIS Excalibur home page, click Publish New: Hosted Web Layers.

   Alternatively, from the left navigation menu, click Publish Layer.

2. Click Video Layer.
3. Type a title.
4. Optionally, provide a summary that describes the layer.
5. Type tags that describe the layer

   Separate the terms with commas (for example, Federal land is considered one tag; Federal, land is considered two tags).

6. Specify whether you want to share the layer across the organization.
7. Click Next.
8. Choose the publishing strategy that best describes how to create the layer:
   • Video Layer from a Single Video File—Create a video layer from a single video file containing the required metadata.
   • Video Layer from a Video File and Metadata Files—Create a video layer from a collection of files containing video and sensor metadata information. Choose this option if the video file does not contain the required metadata.
9. Click Next.
10. Browse to the location of the files on your local machine or a directory on a network share, and click Open.

    Alternatively, drag the files into the drop zone.

    Optionally, click Clear Files to start over.

11. Choose one or more output video resolutions to use.

    Source Resolution is enabled by default.

    Note:

    When ArcGIS Video Server is installed and configured on an environment with GPU, videos can be published and encoded with multiple resolutions up to the source video resolution, but not above. If GPU is not enabled on the environment, the native resolution of the video is the only option available.

12. Click Next.
13. Click Ready to publish your new video layer.

Once the video layer is published, click Connect to Canvas to work with the layer in the canvas in ArcGIS Excalibur.