These are the best Squarespace templates for video

Whether you’re looking for a portfolio or a one-page site, Mercer continues to have the versatility to be a videographer’s dream, even if it is a little older than before.
Brine is a family template that continues to be fantastically flexible and varied. That’s certainly the case with how it’s used for Mercer. Mercer has great built-in flexibility that makes it an ideal starting blueprint for anyone who has videos to showcase, whether they happen to be cinematographers showing off an individual movie or documentary, or they’re a video journalist highlighting segment reels and other clips. 
Mercer allows for one-page scrolling so it’s a neat way of allowing you to place all your crucial content in one place, although we’re always a little disappointed that Brine doesn’t have any room for a sidebar. Still, Mercer offers plenty of other useful bonuses. These include the ability to create banners with full-bleed videos or you can use video backgrounds in the bottom header. The key thing here is that you can tweak quite extensively ensuring that no Mercer-based site looks the same. 
The template also allows for parallax scrolling which gives a wow factor and looks suitably professional for any potential customers of yours. It can also function as a video portfolio with the ability to index gallery sections with videos, easily showing off just how accomplished you are. 

This template is a great choice for creating an immersive, one-page website to showcase your video project.
The Horizon template is well designed for videographers because it makes the portfolio experience more interactive than other templates. It’s well known that if you interact with something, you tend to feel like part of the experience and Horizon takes advantage of that. It offers a scrolling single-page experience that ensures the user feels like they’re watching a story unfold before their very eyes. 
Horizon features a scrolling index page that stacks content such as videos and photos one on top of the other which is a great way of highlighting your work. You can set the index page as your homepage to create one single vertical-scrolling page or leave it as a more traditional index. Much of this will depend on whether you’re building a site to promote one particular video project, or you want the experience to be more of a showcase of your individual talents. Such flexibility is certainly useful, especially if you find yourself needing to switch between the two at a moment’s notice. 
You can also loop a video on the main page with this template, which looks quite dramatic as a first impression and could easily lure users in, providing you pick an eye-catching first clip. In part, that’s because Horizon was originally made with bands and concerts in mind but it’s useful if you want to showcase something special. Things get even more practically minded with the ability to add screening dates of your film or exhibition, as well as the option of a tour date widget to include further details regarding your big day.

If you’re a freelance videographer and you’re looking for a template to display your clips, Wexley is a solid choice.
A little older than some Squarespace templates nowadays, Wexley is still a fantastic option for highlighting your video portfolio. It might look like it’s aimed at a photographer rather than a videographer but the Wexley template has galleries open in lightboxes which are perfect for playing videos. That’s because it dims the page in the background ensuring your video is front and center, and always the focus of anyone’s attention. It gives the experience a really great cinematic feel to it and looks suitably classy.
The template also displays the videos as a series of still photos within a clean, mosaic grid layout, which allows the visitor to see your range of work all on one page. It’s a perfect look for a portfolio, luring them into paying attention to your great work. Wexley also features a heater to help users navigate to additional pages such as your bio, blog, built-in social handles, and contact form, making this template an interactive resume that will help promote your work and sell your services to potential clients. 

A beautiful and flexible template that’s a great choice for journalists and documentarians.
Another Brine-based template, Margot is just as flexible as Mercer albeit in a slightly different way. It was originally designed with photographers in mind but if you’re looking for a more traditional website to showcase your videographer talents, it’s a fine choice to make. In particular, it works well for displaying individual clips alongside more detailed write-ups that can add context. That makes it perfect for video journalists or documentarians who need to add additional context or reporting to the video clip. Being able to combine text and video so readily will give you a great opportunity to express your breadth of knowledge as well as highlight what a great visual eye you have.
When it comes to forming contacts, Margot also has a useful tool in the form of a pop-up contact form. If you want to use Margot as a way in which potential clients can get in touch with you after being wowed by your work, it’s a really straightforward way of getting right to the point. 
Much of this is thanks to Margot being part of the Brine template family. Besides these core features, it’s also really easy to set up other navigation options, style options, along with parallax scrolling, and slideshow banners. It’s a great way of ensuring your site looks nothing like anyone else’s. 

With a full-bleed carousel, this template works well for mixed-media artists looking for a showstopper website.
Ishimoto is one of the older Squarespace templates out there but it’s still an excellent choice. Primarily designed with portfolios in mind, it might initially seem like it’s only any use to photographers, but it’s actually a good option for combining your forms of visual media. 
Its most eye-catching feature is a horizontally-scrolling carousel so users can easily scroll through your content and end up bewitched by what you can create. The problem here is that Ishimoto is a tad limited. It’s beautiful to look at and you can add basic features like social media links, an about page, and even a blog, but it’s not exactly versatile. Still, if you merely want a gorgeous portfolio to form your presence online before users go elsewhere to get in touch, Ishimoto is certainly dramatic enough to command attention.

For a minimalist, immersive portfolio, York allows you the flexibility to create a video portfolio that stands out.
If you don’t want to spend a long time setting up your portfolio but you still want it to be eye-catching then York is your template. It provides a minimalist look that showcases your work and not a huge amount else. It may lack a certain amount of flexibility but if like in the case of Ishimoto, you simply want an online presence, it does the job admirably. 
Videos can be embedded either in standard slideshow format, in a grid, or in page banners. You can build project pages too which are custom gallery views that mix together text and imagery in a creative way that’s sure to be eye-catching if you wish to put together a personalized gallery of your work. There are dedicated gallery pages too which put the focus on your video alone, giving you a certain amount of creative freedom with how you want things to look. 
Finally, there’s the option to scroll through vertically, taking in video clips and other media as you go along, making it a fairly immersive experience. 

Want to showcase numerous projects of yours? Balboa is a stylish way of doing precisely that. 
One of the newer inclusions on Squarespace, Balboa is an attractive if simple way of highlighting your work. Simply offer a brief description of your talents then let your videos and photos do the rest via a series of projects that are laid out attractively in a scrolling one-page format. You can drag and drop and rearrange your projects, potentially even moving them around depending on a weekly schedule if you so choose. The focus is always on your work rather than any other details. 
Balboa is a little on the simple side, effectively requiring you to encourage users to find you elsewhere such as via your social media platforms, but it covers all the bases such as the ability to create an About page and, of course, showcase all your work. 
Keeping it clean and simple is what works for Balboa with a focus on getting right to the necessary details that potential customers may wish to know.