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Best way to package on-demand video + long text explainer

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We're using SS + Memberspace to sell on-demand videos. Each video is accompanied by a detailed text explainer.

The explainer is supplemental to the video transcript. 

Ideas for the best ways to package these two items together as seamlessly as possible?

1 - The only place I see to add text is in Video Settings under Description - but that field has very limited formatting abilities.

Plus if we use Video/Settings/Description for the explainer text, then we can't realistically also use it for the video transcript.

2 - We tried adding a link to a related blog post in the Video Description field - but that's looking pretty clunky for several reasons.

3 - We're also considering adding a video block to the blog post.

TIA!

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Probably the best way would be to use Course Collections, maybe? You can create a Lesson that includes the video, and then in the actual video page itself, you can add as many sections as you want. You could then use custom code to remove the Complete+Continue button and create your own navigation. 

The reason I recommend this is that the video collection pages is pretty limited and restrictive with the description and excerpt. Courses is much more customizable. 

Alternatively, you can use the blog idea, which would be a bit simpler, but IMO I'd use Courses. You can then protect it with Memberspace.

Let me know if you need help with this part. 

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