Make sharing a clip straightforward
Let members add recordings to posts with upload progress and recovery from interrupted transfers. They can share the file they have, without preparing several video versions themselves.
Communities & user-generated video
Make video part of the conversation.
Let members share a match highlight, explain a problem, or show what they made. Chunkify handles the video behind each post, so your team can focus on the community.
After the racePC gaming community
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Alex M.Shared a race clip
Anyone up for another race?
A few highlights from tonight. Same time tomorrow?
Platforms in this category
Made by your members
Give people another way to contribute.
A short recording can show what a paragraph struggles to explain. Put video in the places members already post, ask questions, and help each other. Keep the experience inside your community.
Make watching fit the moment
Someone might open a post on their phone and return later on a laptop. Video adapts to the available connection, with a player that fits your community's design.
Keep context around the video
Place playback beside the question, discussion, or review it belongs to. Your platform owns the conversation, replies, and member relationships.
Let your team build the community
Hand video preparation and its ongoing processing work to Chunkify. Spend your engineering time on member discovery, useful discussions, and the features that make your platform worth returning to.
Examples in this industry
Forums, member networks, and shared experiences.
The community might be about games, work, or a shared interest. The opportunity is similar: let people show their experience where the discussion is happening.
A video inside a discussion
Discourse supports member video uploads in forum posts. Think of someone sharing a gameplay moment or recording the problem they need help with. For a community you operate, Chunkify can prepare that video while your platform keeps the discussion around it.
See video uploads in DiscoursePeople sharing their perspective
Glassdoor's published story describes adding short-form video to its community. Hearing someone explain an experience adds context to a post. If you are building a member network, Chunkify can handle the video preparation behind that kind of contribution.
Read Glassdoor's story, published by MuxUneven views, sensible costs
You cannot predict which clip will take off.
A post may reach a handful of members or become the conversation of the week. Preparing every upload in every quality can fill storage with versions nobody watches. Chunkify prepares an initial playable version, then creates additional streaming versions when viewers request them.
Keep unused versions out of storage
If nobody requests a planned 1080p version, Chunkify does not encode or store that production version. When someone does request it, encoding starts for the whole version. Your library can grow without producing every possible quality up front.
Match quality to each upload
A gameplay clip, a phone recording, and a screen walkthrough need different video settings. Per-title encoding chooses useful quality options for each source. Avoiding unnecessary files and excessive data can reduce storage and bandwidth costs, depending on your content and provider.
Pay preparation for the uploaded video.
Preparation is priced by the upload's duration and resolution, with automatic streaming versions included. Encoding on demand avoids unnecessary output work and storage; it does not reduce that preparation charge. Storage, delivery, and optional captions or translations have separate charges.
Sharing a video
A member's clip becomes part of the post.
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A member adds a recording
They attach a video where they already write their post. Your community decides who can upload and what members can share.
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Your platform publishes it
Chunkify prepares playback before every quality version is complete. Your platform applies its review and publication rules before showing the post.
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The conversation continues
Members watch in the post and respond through your community's existing tools. Chunkify handles the video while your platform handles replies and moderation.
Your community, your video library
Choose where your videos live and how they reach members.
Keep videos in your own storage account and serve them on your delivery domain. Choose storage and delivery providers whose prices suit your upload volume and viewing demand.
Use any S3-compatible storage, including Amazon S3 and Cloudflare R2, with your choice of CDN. You can keep an existing S3 and CloudFront setup. Owning your files and domain gives you more options if you change services later, with integration changes and any unfinished video preparation to plan.
Explore storage & deliveryBefore you get started
Questions about video in your community.
Can we add video to an existing community?
Yes, when your team can extend the post editor and viewing experience. Add Chunkify's uploader and player, or use a compatible HLS player. Your platform keeps its members, feeds, and conversations. The industry examples above show the kind of experience you can build; they are not advertised plug-ins.
Can videos follow our moderation rules?
Your community controls who can upload, who can watch, and when a post is published. Connect video preparation to your existing review process. Chunkify prepares the video; content review and moderation remain with your team and the services you choose.
Can members watch without sound?
You can add generated captions to videos with spoken audio, so members can read along. Translate those captions to help people follow posts in other languages. Caption generation and translation are optional, separately billed operations.
Can we see which videos members watch?
Send playback activity to your own analytics tools and connect it to post or community data. Chunkify supplies playback tracking tools. Your team chooses the reports and measures that matter to the community.
What should we try first?
Start with a few uploads your members would actually share: a gameplay clip, a phone recording, or a screen walkthrough. Test publishing and playback on their devices, then compare preparation, storage, and delivery costs at your expected viewing volume.