Main issue: A Shopify store splits each color into separate products and wants to reuse the same feature video across those products without duplicating files, as current uploads create copies and hit the plan’s video cap.
Proposed approaches:
Metaobjects + metafields: Upload the video once to a metaobject and reference it via a product metafield to display in theme sections. (Metaobject = reusable content type; Metafield = custom field on products.)
Concern: This approach doesn’t place the video inside the native product media gallery (the built‑in carousel). One participant reports Shopify support said there’s no built‑in solution and a feature request was filed.
Counterpoint: Another participant says it is possible in the media gallery by uploading the video to a single product, then using a product‑level metafield and custom code to have the gallery render that referenced video across products.
Current status and next steps:
No code snippets or screenshots provided yet; a request for a step‑by‑step guide/screenshots is pending.
Discussion remains open with no definitive, documented implementation shared.
Summarized with AI on December 28.
AI used: gpt-5.
Hi there! I have a store that separates each color of a product as a different product for Shopify. This is for inventory reasons and cannot be changed for now. We have a video displaying some features for each product. It is the same video for each color as the product is the same, only the color changes.
Whenever I upload a video to each color, Shopify creates a copy of the video instead of allowing me to use the same one, which has led to us reaching the video cap for our plan. How can I use the same video for all colors of the same product?
That would work in sections, but if you need the video in the product media section its different. Right? We have the same issue and Shopify just said there was no solution at the moment. They made a feature request.
Main issue is that we need to upload the video multiple times (once for each product) and Files will become bloated due to the many duplicates.
No, to get that video in product media gallery you can upload the product video in single product and create meta field at product level and read that field in product gallery file using custom code.