Upload Off-Platform Interviews into Your Strella Project

Bring human-moderated or off-platform interview recordings into Strella so they’re included in the AI synthesis alongside your other sessions.

If you conducted some or all of your interviews outside of Strella — through a human moderator, a third-party video tool, or another platform — you can upload those recordings directly into your project. Once uploaded, Strella processes them the same way it handles AI-moderated sessions: transcribing, summarizing, and including them in the full synthesis.

Before you upload

Your setup depends on whether you’re starting a brand-new project or adding to an existing one.

Brand new project

If all your interviews were conducted off-platform and you’re creating a new Strella study to house them:

You must upload and publish your question guide first before uploading any interview recordings. The question guide is what Strella uses to structure its AI synthesis — without it, theme extraction and analysis won’t work correctly.

Once your question guide is published, follow the upload steps below.

Existing project

If you’re adding human-moderated recordings to a project that already has AI-moderated sessions:

Make sure the same question guide was used for both your AI-moderated and human-moderated interviews. Mismatched guides reduce the accuracy of the synthesis features.

Once you’ve confirmed the question guides match, follow the upload steps below.

Upload your interviews

1. Open the Sessions tab

   Navigate to Results > Sessions in your project.

2. Click Upload

   Select Upload in the top-right corner of the Sessions tab. This opens the upload panel.

3. Add your video files

   Drag and drop your video files into the upload area, or click to browse and select them from your device.

4. Start the upload

   Click Upload to begin. Strella will start processing the files immediately.

5. Wait for processing to complete

   Processing time depends on video length and file size. Once complete, the uploaded sessions will appear in your Sessions tab alongside any AI-moderated sessions.

Uploaded sessions go through the same AI processing pipeline as AI-moderated sessions — you’ll get a transcript, summary, and AI-generated notes for each one.