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Video-on-Demand

Import from Vimeo

Move your own Vimeo library to DCAST with a Vimeo personal access token, then give your past buyers their access back with personal keys sent by email.

Bevor du beginnst

  • You are signed in to DCAST.
  • The videos are in your own Vimeo account, and your Vimeo plan allows downloads. Vimeo only gives the file to its owner, and only when downloads are allowed for the video.
  • For restoring buyers: a list of your buyers' email addresses, for example a CSV exported from Vimeo.

Schritte

  1. 1
    On Vimeo, open the Developer site, create an app, and generate a personal access token with the scopes public, private and video_files.
  2. 2
    In the DCAST dashboard start an upload and choose Import by link, then open the Vimeo tab.
  3. 3
    Paste the token into Vimeo access token and click Show my library. Your Vimeo videos are listed 50 per page; select the ones you want, or Select this page. You can also paste links to your own Vimeo videos instead.
  4. 4
    Click Import. Each video gets a row in the import list with its status; DCAST downloads the file Vimeo publishes for the owner and processes it like any upload.
  5. 5
    When a video is ready, check its title and description (taken from Vimeo) and set its visibility and price. Imported videos arrive Private.
  6. 6
    To give past buyers their access back, open Monetization, Content Management, the Access control tab, and use Keys by email for that video.
  7. 7
    Paste the buyers' emails or a CSV, check the preview (valid, duplicate and invalid rows are counted), and confirm. Each buyer gets a personal access key, sent by email if Send the key by email is on.

Erwartetes Ergebnis

Your Vimeo videos are in your DCAST library, and each buyer on your list holds a personal key that opens the video for them.

Häufige Probleme

The message says Vimeo did not accept the access token.

Generate the token again on the Vimeo Developer site and paste it whole. It must belong to the account that owns the videos.

A video says downloads are disabled on Vimeo.

Allow downloads for that video in its Vimeo settings (this needs a paid Vimeo plan), then paste the token again and click Retry on its row.

A vimeo.com link pasted into the Links tab is refused.

A Vimeo page is not a video file. Use the Vimeo tab with your token instead.

A video is refused as already imported.

It is already in your DCAST library from an earlier import, so it is not copied twice.

Running the buyer list again.

A buyer who already has a key for that video keeps it and is counted as previously issued; no second key is created.