VIDEO tab 🎥

In this article:

• Video formats

• Filter video formats

• Filter video collections

• Filter video duration

• Composition of the scripts

• Topvideos filter

• Video display adjustment

1. Video formats

The major video formats are indicated on the thumbnails or in the video viewer.

The video formats give two types of information:

• "Editable" or "Ready to publish" format

• Information on the content of the video: sound, archive etc. 

Use

• An "editable" video is a raw video consisting of illustrative footage and interview sound for re-editing purposes. AFP mostly produces this kind of video.

  - These are the videos used in the AFPTV Newsroom feeds Newsroom

  Where necessary, the letter "E" indicates an "editable" video.

• "Ready to publish" format is a format that can be published as is, on a website, for instance.
  You can extract specific sequences for further editing by using "NSV, Natural sound version" format, which is the editable version without commentary or sound effects on the subject.
  - These are the videos used in the AFPTV Digital feeds.

  (Note that "ready to publish" videos are non-editable and cannot be extracted as they come with text banners.)

• Animation: animated films combining 3D modeling, text, images, photos and videos.
  
  Visual and accurate reconstructions of the biggest events, deciphering the latest trends in technology, popularizations of scientific concepts, magazine topics, ...

  Production of short interactive computer graphics formats for increased reactivity (tweets, locations, route previews, etc.)

  • Available in 6 languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and in raw "international" version (=without jingle, credits, title, text, subtitles, voice-over).

    Access to the "International Version" videographics by selecting the "English" language.

    Currently, the "Animation" filter only contains videographics. More animated and 3D formats will be available soon on AFP News.

  >More about videographics

2. Filter video formats

Editable

-Archives: Archive images filed to illustrate a topic and/or news
-1st images E : Between 30 secs and 1'30 of images without quotes in case of breaking news or first soundbites sent quickly before a longer video compiling the rest of a presser / statement
-NSV: No Sound Version: a fully edited story with its natural sound (no voicing)
-Raw: All videos that are not voiced packages (RAW is the first word in the slugline)
-Stockshots: General B-roll of a city, economy, or a specific topic such as GAFA, phone apps, etc.
-Voiced E: a fully edited story with voicing by an AFP journalist

Ready to publish

-1st images R: Between 30 secs and 1'30 of images without quotes in case of breaking news or first soundbites sent quickly before a longer video compiling the rest of a presser / statement
-Voiced R: a fully edited story with voicing by an AFP journalist
-Subtitled: a fully edited story ready to be published with integrated subtitles

Animation

3D images like accurate visual reconstructions of big events or popularization of scientific concepts

3. Filter video collections

Our video collections: You also have the option on AFP News to filter our videos according to our various collections.

• AFPTV Newsroom: 100% editable videos to edit and make them your own

• AFPTV Digital: 100% ready-to-publish videos with voice commentary or subtitles

• AFPTV Sports : The best of the biggest events and competitions with videos and slideshows of AFP’s most beautiful sports pictures

• AFPTV Videographics : 3D images of accurate visual reconstructions of big events or popularization of scientific concepts

• EditorialFootage : News, lifestyle and evergreen illustrative footage

• Newsflare: A selection of the best UGC videos on social networks, shot by a community of content creators across 100 countries

• Red Bull Media House: Fill up on thrills through breathtaking red bull videos, +150 videos per year of sports in short formats

• SID: sid, the german subsidiary of afp, offers you 24/7 sport in German

4. Filter video duration

Allows you to restrict the news feed or search results to videos within the selected durations. 5 intervals can be selected (shown above).

5. Composition of the scripts:

• Slugs

• Title

• Dateline (=location)

• Introduction

• Source/credit

• Soundbites (names/titles/function of the people speaking in the video)

• Shotlist with details of the location and source for each series of shots

• Ssoundbites, transcripts and/or translation when relevant Byline.

Background article (=background news report) accessible separately.

6. Topvideos Filter

The AFP editorial team selects the best videos daily, known as "topvideos." You can access them:

From the news feed: By activating the "topvideo" filter in the "Video" tab. From the search results:

By activating the "Topvideos Only" facet in the "Video" tab.

7. [NEW ✨] Video display adjustment

To enhance your browsing experience, you can adjust the size of the video thumbnails displayed in the mosaic using an interactive slider:

Need an overview? Reduce the size of the videos by clicking on ‘-’ or by moving the blue slider to the left to increase the number of videos displayed on the screen.

Want to see the details? Enlarge video thumbnails by clicking on ‘+’ or moving the slider to the right for better visibility.