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# 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.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Brand new project">
    If all your interviews were conducted off-platform and you're creating a new Strella study to house them:

    <Warning>
      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.
    </Warning>

    Once your question guide is published, follow the upload steps below.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Existing project">
    If you're adding human-moderated recordings to a project that already has AI-moderated sessions:

    <Warning>
      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.
    </Warning>

    Once you've confirmed the question guides match, follow the upload steps below.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Upload your interviews

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Sessions tab">
    Navigate to **Results > Sessions** in your project.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click Upload">
    Select **Upload** in the top-right corner of the Sessions tab. This opens the upload panel.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add your video files">
    Drag and drop your video files into the upload area, or click to browse and select them from your device.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start the upload">
    Click **Upload** to begin. Strella will start processing the files immediately.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  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.
</Note>