Church Websites (Sidekick): Parallax Website Design: Add a Video Background to Your Website

Adding a video as a background can show the life of your church as well as add a nice ambiance your site.

In an effort to allow you to do so we have made this option available for you in the 3 following templates. Revelation | Nehemiah | Esther

 

Please note that video backgrounds will not play in mobile view.

 

Check out the following video to discover how to add a video background in these templates.

*This video overview may include some out-of-date images. We appreciate your patience as we work to get these videos updated. 

 

Let's add a video background to our website. Please note that you can only add video backgrounds on select templates.

So before you begin, make sure that you have one of the templates listed above this video. Let's begin. Hover over the top page.

Click on the mountain button. Click on the video tab. From here, you can do a couple of things. You can upload a video. The video uploaded cannot be any larger than 4 megabytes and must be an mp4. If you need to scale down the size of your video and you want to upload it to your website, please check out the link below to be taken to an online tool that will compress your file.

The other thing that you can do is upload a video to YouTube and paste the link here. Or you can search for a video loop and simply link it here. Let's do that.

From the video, you will click the share link. and the link that you need to copy will appear here.

Simply select and copy the link. Go back to your website, paste the link there, then click save. Once you do that, you are all done!

 

To compress your MP4 so that you can achieve the 4mb upload limit follow this link to ClipChamp

Please note that we do not offer any support in regards to ClipChamp.

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