MDPI Video Abstract Requirements

MDPI encourages authors to prepare video abstracts to support and enhance the visualization of their research. The exact wording appears in many individual journal instruction pages, so authors should treat MDPI's video policy as journal-specific and confirm the requirements on the target journal before submission.

On MDPI journal instruction pages, the video abstract must be in MP4 format, should not exceed 200 MB, and the preferred length is 5 minutes or less. MDPI describes the video abstract as a motion-picture equivalent of the written abstract and encourages authors to make it engaging and more informative than the text abstract alone.

Because MDPI's detailed requirements appear at the journal level rather than in one universal central page, you should verify file, length, and upload rules against your exact journal before submitting.

MDPI's exact submission steps can vary by journal, which is why the safest workflow is to check the journal's Instructions for Authors and any editorial-office communication before uploading files. If your target journal supports video abstracts, prepare the MP4 to the stated limits and follow the journal's preferred supplementary-material or post-acceptance workflow.

Across MDPI's public author materials and journal announcements, video abstracts are described as helping increase visibility, impact, reach, and potentially citations. In the official pages we reviewed, MDPI does not give one publisher-wide percentage uplift for views or visits, so the responsible summary is that MDPI explicitly positions video abstracts as a visibility and impact lever, but not with one guaranteed numeric benchmark.

SciReel produces an MP4 video abstract from the full paper and gives you transcript and subtitle assets you can adapt to the specific MDPI journal workflow. Because the script is generated from the PDF rather than only the abstract, it is easier to build a fuller video summary before you do a final author review.