The Video block plays a YouTube or Vimeo video, or a video file, inside the page. Visitors see a picture, the poster, with a round play button, and the video plays in the page when they click it. You find it in the Media group of the block picker. It goes in a Section or a Post Content section, or inside a Group, a Collection, a No Results or a Paywall.
The link to a YouTube or Vimeo page, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcDeFgHiJk, or a direct link to an .mp4 or .webm file. The panel plays the link under the field so you can check it. Any other link shows an error and is not saved. Fantasma does not host video files, so upload a file somewhere first, such as to your Ghost site, and paste its link.
Poster
Shows once Video URL is set. The picture visitors see before the video plays, added the same way as an Image's picture. Without one, a YouTube or Vimeo video shows its own thumbnail, and a video file shows a dark box.
Autoplay
Off by default. On, the video plays without sound when most of it is on screen, and pauses when it scrolls out of view. It does not play by itself for visitors who turned on the reduce motion setting of their device.
Loop
Off by default. On, the video starts again when it ends.
Caption
A line of plain text under the video.
Shape and corners
Setting
What it does
Aspect Ratio
Under Layout. The shape of the player: 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 (the default), 3:4, 9:16 or Custom with two numbers for the width and the height. Choose 9:16 for a video shot on a phone.
Corners
Under Appearance, from its + menu. Rounds the player's corners: None (the default), Extra small to 2X large, Full, or a length you enter.
Videos and cookie consent
When your site has a cookie banner and a visitor has not accepted marketing cookies, a YouTube or Vimeo video shows no thumbnail and does not play by itself. It still plays when the visitor clicks it. A video file is not held back. Add a cookie banner describes the consent categories.
A Video with no link
A Video block with no Video URL shows a gray box in the chosen shape. It shows on your Ghost site too, so remove the block or add a link before you publish.
The Video block plays a YouTube or Vimeo video, or a video file, inside the page. Visitors see a picture, the poster, with a round play button, and the video plays in the page when they click it. You find it in the Media group of the block picker. It goes in a Section or a Post Content section, or inside a Group, a Collection, a No Results or a Paywall.
To play a video behind a whole section, use the section's Video background instead, as Add a background image, video or gradient describes. To play a post's own video, see Play a video as a post's featured media.
General
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcDeFgHiJk, or a direct link to an.mp4or.webmfile. The panel plays the link under the field so you can check it. Any other link shows an error and is not saved. Fantasma does not host video files, so upload a file somewhere first, such as to your Ghost site, and paste its link.Shape and corners
Videos and cookie consent
When your site has a cookie banner and a visitor has not accepted marketing cookies, a YouTube or Vimeo video shows no thumbnail and does not play by itself. It still plays when the visitor clicks it. A video file is not held back. Add a cookie banner describes the consent categories.
A Video with no link
A Video block with no Video URL shows a gray box in the chosen shape. It shows on your Ghost site too, so remove the block or add a link before you publish.
Shared settings
The Video also has Width from the Layout settings, Height when it sits inside a Group, Margin in the Spacing group, Border from the Colors and appearance settings, the Display settings and the Advanced settings.