Wow, I didn’t mean to get so long winded…

Youtube and Vimeo work, but I think I read in another post that you can’t use self hosted videos. The staff will have to comment on that.

I used the porfolio grid. If those features are what you want, and Devin said the Avia gallery can’t do it, then why not use the Portfolio Grid instead of Avia Gallery?

You have a nice looking website, so maybe you’ve already thought about this approach and chosen not to do it… but I think this would work well with your site…

I think of a “Portfolio Items” page as any page OR image/video that I want to show in a gallery. So I created a portfolio page as a “placeholder” page for each of the 3 images. Load a featured image (which is the thumbnail), then select the categories that you want (this is key, and i would recommend at least 3 which I’ll explain). For images, you’re done… For video, you still upload the thumbnail that you want to see in the gallery as your featured image, but then use the new preview url link field to set the youtube or vimeo http address.

I know… you could have hundreds of pages, BUT they only take a few seconds to create, they are easy to navigate and find (all listed in the admin “portfolio all” section, and edits can be done with the “quick edit”). You don’t have to worry about content. They are literally a title, featured image, a link if it’s a video, and categories. As I said before, the page is just a placeholder for media or dummy page that the user will never go to.

Right now you may only have portfolio pages for your actual portfolio (I’ll call them projects to avoid confusion) pages.

Ford Focus

Mechanisms

Animatronics

Etc….

And you have categories of the same name for each project, which your current portfolio grid page shows.

If you do the page per gallery image approach, think of this structure for each project…

Ford Focus (current project page)

– Focus Photography 1 (Gallery 1)

– Focus Photography 2

:

:

– Focus Photography 18

– Focus Test Shoot 1 (Gallery 2)

– Focus Test Shoot 2

:

:

– Focus Test Shoot 18

Mechanisms

– Mechanisms Photography 1

:

Animatronics

– Animatronics Photography 1

:

If you start the title of your image gallery placeholder pages with the same name as your Project, it will help to sort/find them on the Portfolio Item page.

Now think about categories.

You already have a portfolio grid for your actual portfolio. This is probably showing all categories. In order to keep all the new pages from showing up, only mark your current categories instead of “all” categories. You want different category names for your new pages. I would recommend something like

“Photo” or “Video” – type of media (just 2 categories)

“Ford Focus Media” (identifies each project page that you’re on, but different from the Ford Focus category that you already have. 8-10?)

“Ford Focus Photography” (Ford Focus Test Shoot, etc.) – one per image/video to match the gallery. you’ll have 3-4 of these categories for each project page. also equal to the total number of galleries on your website

You would keep the same categories for each Gallery, so your portfolio pages with their categories will be:

Ford Focus (current project page)- Ford Focus category

Ford Focus Photography 1 (Ford Focus Media, Photo, Video, Ford Focus Photography)

Ford Focus Photography 2 (Ford Focus Media, Photo, Video, Ford Focus Photography)

:

Ford Focus Test Shoot 1 (Ford Focus Media, Photo, Video, Ford Focus Test Shoot)

etc…

Now the easy part, to make it all work… anywhere that you have an Avia gallery, can be replaced by a portfolio grid and simply choose the category that you want to show. The options I used:

Category shown – Ford Focus Photography (your image gallery category)

4 row gallery

no filter

no pagination

Show image in lightbox

Size 180 x 180 (125 x 125 if you want smaller ones like your current gallery)

Since lightbox is chosen, all thumbnail images will open in the lightbox. Since the new preview url link was set on the video portfolio placeholder pages, it will override the thumbnail image in the lightbox and show the video in the lightbox instead. The extra time you might think you spend on the front side, saves time of adding videos to each individual

You can make it work with just one category per image, which is the one that identifies your gallery “Ford Focus Photography”. I threw in the photo, video, and Ford Focus Project because it would take no time to create and tag these additional categories, and it gives you nice filtering options if you wanted to do one massive photo/video gallery with all of your images and video. It would just be another portfolio grid page (like your current one) but choose the categories photo, video, and then your “Ford Focus Media”, “Mechanisms Media”, “Animatronics Media”.

If you made it through all that… Hope it helps you or someone else!

i asked the same question here:

https://kriesi.at/support/topic/video-portfolio-gallery-with-filter-and-lightbox

and devin said it’s possible in version 1.6

I’m still on 1.4 so i havent tested it yet

Ah, I didn’t even try linking from the image element. Worked exactly like i wanted it to. thanks Ismael!