Video preview creation with link

摘要

Providing a method for creating and displaying portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be associated with a link to a full video, such that the video preview is generated from a portion of the full video. The video previews are configured to play a series of images associated with images from the portion of the full video when the video preview is activated.

主权项

1. A method of creating a video preview, the method comprising:
receiving a link to a full video at a computing device from a graphical user interface (GUI) executing on the computing device; receiving, by the computing device from the GUI, an identification of one or more video portions of the full video at the computing device, wherein the video portions include a series of copies of images from the full video, the one or more video portions consisting of images of the full video that have been identified as being viewed at least a threshold number of times; after receiving the link to the full video and the identification of the one or more video portions of the full video at the computing device, generating, by the computing device, a video preview from the identified video portions, wherein the video preview is configured to play the series of copies of images associated with images of the video portions from the full video when activated; and creating, by the computing device, a video preview object by combining the video preview and the link, wherein a selection of the video preview provides access to the full video.