Looping video backgrounds
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If this is what you're after, then great.
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If you turn on Loop Video, what will happen is that the video will play continuously on repeat AFTER the user plays the video. Upload a video from your device or select from the Asset LibraryĪfter you've uploaded a video, scroll down the video settings, and you should see the toggle to turn on video looping.
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You have the option to directly upload a video from your device or select an existing video that you've already uploaded to the Asset Library. Next, Edit the video block and Upload a video of your choice. Add a new block Add the video block to your page Then Edit the page you want to add a looping video to. Head to your Squarespace website dashboard Now here's how to add a video that loops in Squarespace.įirst, head to your website from the Squarespace dashboard. In short, you should optimize use a video instead of GIFs whenever you can. Aside from the obvious slow user experience, a search engine like Google prioritizes websites that load fast as well, especially for mobile devices. Large image and video files affect the site loading speed. Take this experience from an Adobe customer who's trying to export their MP4 file into a GIF in photoshop. That's because video formats like MP4 are neatly compressed and optimized during export, whereas GIFs are just multiple images being stitched together by video software. However, GIFs are notorious for having a much larger (usually over 10x) file size than video. Technically, if you upload a GIF to your site, the GIF will loop indefinitely.
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Should you add a GIF on Squarespace instead? We'll go over each method, and I'll also let you know the things you should look out for.
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You can add a video that loops within the content section.Ģ.In Squarespace, there are 2 ways to loop a video: Squarespace has introduced a native feature to loop videos on your website, so you can do this without relying on third-party video platforms like Youtube or Vimeo. Here's a complete step-by-step tutorial on how to loop a video in Squarespace without needing any custom code.
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