actualNoteContentPart: # Video uploads
  ## Two types of video uploads
  Amplenote provides two ways to surface video content within notes.
  
  ### 1. Within Rich Footnotes: Youtube, Uploaded Videos, and animated gifs
  Thanks to Rich Footnotes, you can squeeze a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmgU6XNlknA)  or an [uploaded video](https://images.amplenote.com/73efbaa4-1242-11ec-9068-f674aa3b173c/ecf828b8-89b5-4a31-9a53-d46063ebbf8b.mov)  pretty much anywhere. Select some text, hit CMD-K (on macOS) or Ctrl-K (on PC), and insert a URL or drag a video (or [an animated gif](https://images.amplenote.com/73efbaa4-1242-11ec-9068-f674aa3b173c/fd4bddcb-0497-4186-a527-77815ddc3a20.gif) ).   
  
  ### 2. In the note body: Uploaded videos and animated gifs
  Videos can also be inserted into the body of a note, either as a video:
  
  
  
  
  
  Or as an animated gif:
  
  
  
  
  Animated gifs are usually best if you want to show something that's 20 seconds or less, and doesn't need sound. Actual videos are best for other cases.
  
  To insert a video or animated gif into a note body, you can [drag it from your files into the note](https://images.amplenote.com/73efbaa4-1242-11ec-9068-f674aa3b173c/a93baac2-54b5-4a6f-8a0b-29bd9eeb0e7d.mp4) , or click the ["Image or Video" icon](https://images.amplenote.com/73efbaa4-1242-11ec-9068-f674aa3b173c/d094734b-838c-4d9c-8f77-189842c6d1fd.png)  in the toolbar.
  
  ## Unplayable videos
  Sometimes, a video uploaded by one device can't be played by another device. In these cases, in place of your video, you'll see an overlay that looks something like this:
  > ![](https://images.amplenote.com/73efbaa4-1242-11ec-9068-f674aa3b173c/39ad210a-dab1-4548-8db6-ce338c69dd8f.png) Message that a video can't be played
  When you save a video, your iPhone, Android or computer will save the video in a file with an extension like .mp4 or .mov (Quicktime). Within that video file, the device that saved the video will have chosen to apply a "video codec" to write the video file content. [The two most popular codecs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding)  used to save videos as of 2021 are known as "AVC (H264)" and "HEVC (H265)." [See Wikipedia if you want to geek out on the differences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding) .
  
  By default, when you upload a video from your iPhone, it uses the iPhone's preferred video codec, HEVC (H265). Per [caniuse](https://caniuse.com/hevc) , as of 2021, only Safari and Edge support playing videos that use the iPhone's codec. Chrome and Firefox can't play videos with this codec yet. This means that, unless you convert your iPhone videos to the H264 codec, you will only be able to view iPhone videos on Safari-based browsers.
  
  [Apple provides a few options for addressing this: exporting to H264 via QuickTime, or manually set H264 as the default on iPhone](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207022) . 
  
  If anyone has an iPhone app they think makes the process of moving from H265->H264 relatively easy (i.e., by availing an extension that can be accessed when viewing the video), drop us a line at support@amplenote.com and we'll make a specific recommendation here.
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  headers: # Video uploads
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  Video uploads
  
  Two types of video uploads
  Amplenote provides two ways to surface video content within notes. 
  1. Within Rich Footnotes: Youtube, Uploaded Videos, and animated gifs
  Thanks to Rich Footnotes, you can squeeze a [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com)`
    or an [uploaded video](https://images.amplenote.com)`
    pretty much anywhere. Select some text, hit CMD-K (on macOS) or Ctrl-K (on PC), and insert a URL or drag a video (or [an animated gif](https://images.amplenote.com)`
   ). 
  2. In the note body: Uploaded videos and animated gifs
  Videos can also be inserted into the body of a note, either as a video: Or as an animated gif: Animated gifs are usually best if you want to show something that's 20 seconds or less, and doesn't need sound. Actual videos are best for other cases. To insert a video or animated gif into a note body, you can [drag it from your files into the note](https://images.amplenote.com)`
   , or click the ["Image or Video" icon](https://images.amplenote.com)`
    in the toolbar. 
  Unplayable videos
  Sometimes, a video uploaded by one device can't be played by another device. In these cases, in place of your video, you'll see an overlay that looks something like this:  Message that a video can't be played
  When you save a video, your iPhone, Android or computer will save the video in a file with an extension like .mp4 or .mov (Quicktime). Within that video file, the device that saved the video will have chosen to apply a "video codec" to write the video file content. The two most popular codecs  used to save videos as of 2021 are known as "AVC (H264)" and "HEVC (H265)." See Wikipedia if you want to geek out on the differences .
  By default, when you upload a video from your iPhone, it uses the iPhone's preferred video codec, HEVC (H265). Per [caniuse](https://caniuse.com)`
   , as of 2021, only Safari and Edge support playing videos that use the iPhone's codec. Chrome and Firefox can't play videos with this codec yet. This means that, unless you convert your iPhone videos to the H264 codec, you will only be able to view iPhone videos on Safari-based browsers. [Apple provides a few options for addressing this: exporting to H264 via QuickTime, or manually set H264 as the default on iPhone](https://support.apple.com)`
   . If anyone has an iPhone app they think makes the process of moving from H265->H264 relatively easy (i.e., by availing an extension that can be accessed when viewing the video), drop us a line at [support@amplenote.com](null)`
   and we'll make a specific recommendation here.
noteTitle: Images & Videos: Mastering the medium, plus suggested use cases