Video

Add video to any page with a YouTube or Vimeo link, or by uploading your own file. Both end up as a video block you can style and place like any other block.

Add a video block

In the editor, open the ••• menu in the floating toolbar... actually, video is a top-level block: use the editor toolbar to add a Video block to your section. Once it's on the page, click it to open the video edit panel.

The panel has four tabs:

• Video — source (URL or upload), aspect ratio, thumbnail, caption
• Style — card style, borders, shadows, presets
• Meta — title, caption, credits (coming soon)
• Behavior — playback toggles and caption hover effects

Embed a YouTube or Vimeo video

On the Video tab, paste a link into the Video URL field. Both YouTube and Vimeo URLs are supported. New Salon extracts the video ID automatically and pulls in a poster thumbnail for you.

A live preview appears at the top of the panel as soon as the URL resolves.

Upload your own video

On the Upload tab, drag a file into the uploader or click to select one. Supported formats:

• MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV

Uploads are transcoded in your browser using WebCodecs, so you'll need Chrome, Edge, or Safari 16.4+. A progress bar shows the processing and upload phases, and you can Cancel at any time.

The uploader displays your plan's per-file size limit (for example "up to 100 MB"). The final file is stored as MP4.

To replace an uploaded video, delete the block and add a new one.

Set the aspect ratio

Choose how the video frame is shaped with the Aspect Ratio dropdown:

• 16:9 (Widescreen)
• 4:3 (Standard)
• 1:1 (Square)
• 9:16 (Vertical)

Thumbnails

Embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos use the platform's poster image automatically.

For uploaded videos, a thumbnail picker appears inside the preview card on the Video tab, so you can pick a custom poster frame next to the live preview.

Captions

Each video has a rich-text Caption field (the same editor used by text and image blocks — headings, bold, italic, lists, and links). The caption renders below the video on the page.

Playback options

On the Behavior tab, toggle:

• Autoplay — start playing when the page loads
• Loop — replay automatically when it ends
• Muted — start without sound (often required for autoplay)
• Show Controls — display the player's play/pause and scrubber

You can also set a Caption Hover Effect (None, Color, Show, or Hide) when a caption is visible.

Reuse settings across the section

• Duplicate — the copy icon at the top of the panel duplicates the block (uploaded videos reuse the same file, so they don't count again against your storage).
• Apply to Section — on the Style and Behavior tabs, push the current block's styling and playback choices to every other video block in the section.
• Reset to Site Theme — clear this block's custom styling and fall back to your site theme.

Plan limits

Video embeds (YouTube/Vimeo) are unlimited on every plan, including Free.

Video uploads are available on every plan, including Free. There's no limit on the number of videos — uploads simply count toward your site's shared storage, alongside images. Each plan also caps the size of a single video file:

To raise these limits, see Plans & Pricing.

Going live

When you're done, click Stop Editing in the top bar (or the Preview pencil icon in the floating toolbar). Leaving edit mode clears the cache so your video changes appear on the live site.

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