Your videos will load even faster now! We jumped from Amazon S3 to Amazon CloudFront, the smart Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Amazon. This system will select the server that is nearest to the viewers of your video. So whether your audience is located in the US, Europe or Japan, they will always get fast access to your footage!
In the next weeks we will work on the next step of Amazon integration. We will keep you posted on that as we roll out the updates.
We are introducing a new and improved Overlay Player! It features a completely new design and improved overlay compatibility. Check out the difference in the image below.
As you can see we eliminated the top and side bars to give more room for the actual video. This design also helps our users with the integration of the player in their own design, as the design is less dominant.
After we launched the Overlay Player, we received a lot of positive reactions and welcomed a lot of new users. Today we are introducing a couple of updates that greatly enhance the experience of the Overlay Player.
For everyone
Overlay load times
Overlays are now optimized to load 10x faster than before. Well, that’s pretty much all there is to say.
Full-screen overlays
The full-screen option in the Overlay Player now scales the overlays. We are still tweaking the scaling, but we are very pleased with the first results and wanted you to be able to enjoy it.
Video quality enhancement
The quality of your existing videos will be enhanced by a new technique we applied to the Overlay Player that smooths the rough edges. New videos will benefit from higher bitrates and better compression.
For Business Accounts
Overlay Opacity
Tweak the opacity of your overlays as you like. The default value is 90% but we leave it up to you to decide what value suits your specific case.
Target
Choose the target of your overlay link, the default value is a new (blank) window but you can choose to use the existing window instead. That way you can let your viewers click-through for a smoother experience.
Pause on click optional
When a viewer clicks on an overlay the video pauses on default. In some cases you might want to let the video continue to play after a viewer clicks, so we made that an option.
We hope you enjoy the updates and will keep you posted on any new developments!
Today we are introducing the Overlay Player. This new player allows you to add links to your videos in a really simple and effective way.
Check the introduction video:
Enrich your video with links to your Twitter or Facebook account, or give your viewers a link to an interesting entry on Wikipedia. Link to anything you want! So what are you waiting for? Try it out!
Furthermore we did a complete redesign of the VIDDIX website. We hope you like the new and colorful VIDDIX. Let us know what you think!
From the start the VIDDIX player became known for its ‘tabs’ which were used to navigate between iPanel material, comments and video information. As of today, we are getting rid of those tabs to simplify the player. By doing this we aim to provide you with a cleaner player to integrate seamlessly into your website and improve on usability at the same time.
Old player
New player
As you can see there are several other subtle differences like the new controls and the placement of the two screens.
The comments and video information can be found on the VIDDIX platform, on the improved ‘watch’ pages.
We hope you like the update and will get back to you soon with the announcement of new products!
Together with one of our first partners (Frankwatching) we created the first Dutch VIDDIX show called BehindTheWeb. Every two weeks we visit a Dutch internet company and interview the CEO. The show is published on VIDDIX and Frankwatching. The iPanel is used to display facts & figures, graphs, photos, polls and all kinds of other stuff mentioned in the episode.
You can now build your own templates to show the branding of your company or your personal style around your video! Check out the example and the screenshots below.
This opens up news ways of working with VIDDIX professionally. As of today, the functionality is available to all our Business Account users.
Some time ago, we implemented an update which was focused on the readability of our URLs. This brings along some nice side-effects.
First of all, we created channels for everyone! Your channel can be reached at:
http://www.viddix.com/channel/{username}
We will be adding new features in the coming months to enable you to create great channels.
Your videos will also benefit with the introduction of this update. Not only will it help search engines index your video higher, but your audience can actually make up what kind of video they’ve watched or saved in their bookmarks by looking at the URL.
If you encounter any problems in regards to this new update (or general), please let us know by commenting or using the feedback form.
