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Getting started with video hosting in Yandex Cloud Video

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Updated at August 18, 2025

To upload a video to a service channel:

  1. Get your cloud ready.
  2. Create a channel.
  3. Upload a video.
  4. Publish your video.
  5. Check if the video is available.

For information about using the service via the API, see How to get started with the Yandex Cloud Video API.

Get your cloud ready

To get started with Cloud Video:

  1. Log in to your Yandex account. If you do not have an account, create one.
  2. Open the Cloud Video home page.
  3. On the Cloud Video home page, confirm that you have read and accept the Terms of use, then click Log in.
  4. Create a billing account.

  1. Log in to your Yandex account.

  2. Open the Cloud Video home page.

  3. Select one of these options:

    • If you already have an organization, select it from the drop-down menu and click Open Cloud Video.

      Note

      To activate a Cloud Video instance, you need the admin or owner role. For more information about roles, see Access management in Yandex Identity Hub.

    • If you have a cloud but no organization, click Open Cloud Center. In the window that opens, enter a name and description for your organization and click Create organization and Cloud Video. For more information about working with organizations, see Getting started with organizations.

  4. To use Cloud Video, make sure you have the minimum role, video.editor, in the organization.

If you encounter a technical issue with the service, contact Yandex Cloud support.

Create a channel

  1. Open the Cloud Video home page.
  2. Click Create a channel.
  3. On the channel creation page, enter:
    • Name.
    • Optionally, Description.
  4. Click Create.

Once the channel is created, you will find yourself inside it on the Video tab.

Upload your video

  1. In the Video tab, click Upload video.

  2. Click Select file on the upload page and choose the video you want to upload.

    You can upload videos in various supported formats, such as MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MOV, WebM, etc. You can download videos either one by one or several at a time.

    Cloud Video limits the resolution of the videos you are publishing.

  3. Name your video. The title will be displayed on all the resources hosting the video.

  4. (Optional) Under Description, specify the timecodes for your video in the following format:

    00:00:00 Episode 1 title
hh:mm:ss Episode 2 title
 ...

    Note

    Timecodes must begin with 00:00 or 00:00:00. The time is separated from the episode title by a space. Each timecode begins from a new line.

  5. In the Access list, select the access type for the video:

    • By temporary link: Video will be available via a dedicated link.

      The video is available via a temporary link for a maximum of 12 hours.

    • All users: Available indefinitely to anyone with a link to it.

  6. Optionally, to add a cover for a video, in the Thumbnail field, click Select file and choose a cover image.

    The following cover formats are supported: JPG, PNG, and GIF.

  7. Optionally, to add summarization, enable Summary.

  8. (Optional) To add subtitles to a video, in the Subtitles field, click Add:

    1. In the window that opens, select the subtitle language.

    2. Click Select file and select the file with subtitles.

    3. Click Create.

      Wait for the file to upload.

  9. Optionally, to add neural translation for a video, click Add under Neural translation:

    1. In the window that opens, select the language of the video.
    2. Select languages for translation.
    3. Click Create.

  10. Click Save.

To learn more about video, see Videos in Cloud Video.

Publish your video

In the video settings window that opens, wait until the video is completely uploaded, processed, and gets the Ready status. The Public access field value will change toPublished.

By default, all videos are published after uploading, changing their status to Published.

If you want to unpublish a video, disable the Grant access option. The Public access field value will change to Unpublished and your video will become unreachable via links.

Check if the video is available

  1. On the video settings page, select the link tab under Past code.

  2. Click Copy.

    With Cloud Video Player SDK for IFrame, you can specify additional video player management settings and video playback parameters for the HTML page, such as video size and looping, volume, etc.

  3. Open a new browser page and paste the obtained URL to the address bar.

  4. Click the Play button.

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