Whether you have a small or large media library, VIDIZMO provides a very intuitive media management tool for Portal managers to organize, search, edit, moderate, assign metadata, publish media and to generate embed codes or create playlists and collections.

Organize all types of media in one place: 

Portal managers can store, organize all of their videos, audio, images, documents etc. in their Portal media library, search and sort based on keywords, tags, categories, most recent etc.

MetaData:

Portal managers and moderators can add and edit content title, descriptions, tags, categories, custom attributes and other Meta data at any point in time.

Drag and Drop Playlists:

Simply drag and drop your published media in a list to create Playlists, enforce completion or playback in specific order and control automatic playback and looping behavior.

Moderation Workflows:

Portal managers and moderators can review content before it is published to Portals in user generated content scenarios. More advanced workflows can be implemented for various editorial team roles.

Schedule Media Publishing:

Each media can be scheduled for publishing and archival on specific dates.

Capture Thumbnails:

If you want to change the automatically captured thumbnails, you can capture it directly from the video with a built-in thumbnail capture tool or upload your own.
Content Sharing:
Portal managers can share content within each other for content re-use to share media management control.

VIDIZMO automatically generates video thumbnails in 16:9 ratio and users can also capture it directly from the video or upload their own.

Read more: How to Capture or Upload Video Thumbnails. 

Yes, VIDIZMO provides an option for users to share a video link via email. By using this feature, the user is navigated to the default mailing application used by the user, and the invite link to watch the video is added to the body of the email which can be sent to another user. Learn more about How to Share Media via Mail. 

VIDIZMO currently support various 3rd party tools to capture screen recordings such as Camtasia, Captivate, Articulate, CamStudio, OBS etc. or any other tool that captures screen recording in a standard video format as specified in VIDIZMO specifications.

With some customization, VIDIZMO can show unwatched videos as unwatched, or watched videos as watched, and have this remembered across sessions and devices.

VIDIZMO uses similar technologies as used by Netflix and YouTube. The video quality may be kept at auto or dynamically adjusted for a user to select the video quality of their choice from the given renditions options. The last selection is remembered and video plays back on the last selection for that user.

One of the features of VIDIZMO's Media Management is its ability to enable multiple Renditions of a video. These Renditions become available to the users who can change the quality of the videos they are watching during playback, allowing users to choose the best quality settings that would run smoothly on their network connection resulting in maximum efficiency. This feature is for those viewers who experience network connectivity issues.

Yes, VIDIZMO has the ability to segregate content in playlists or even completely different Portals for selective viewing or global sharing for authorized users.

Moderator+ roles can create multiple playlists in VIDIZMO. However, after some customization VIDIZMO can enable user-level ability to create their own playlist.

Read more: How to Create and Edit a Playlist.

Built-in asset management allows you to store, raw video, encoded outputs, pdf, word, PowerPoint slides, images, audio, and virtually all major media file types to share with your users. 

Read more:

Understanding Media Manager

Understanding Media Types and Formats

Yes, VIDIZMO can be configured to provide archiving capabilities, by allowing admins to move selected media to an archive portal. The storage of the archive portal can be configured to use any low-cost cloud storage provider or on-premise storage.

By default, the facility to restrict access is available on Portal level (group of videos). Individual video level restriction is also available as a customization option. 

Read more: How to Restrict Specific Locations from Accessing Content.

Yes, content can be shared directly from player to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Email, Embed, etc. Practically speaking, managers and moderators of public Portals can broaden their reach by allowing viewers to share published media on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Yes, you can expand your audience and enable social sharing features for any video in a public Portal and allow users to embed it on their website or simply share on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or simply share it via traditional emails, etc.

Yes, VIDIZMO has social features like comments with moderation, like, sharing, tag cloud, all of which increases interactivity and salability of the content.

VIDIZMO has the ability to dynamically sense and adjust the video quality (bandwidth) sent to end-points or viewers' devices.

Yes, VIDIZMO provides an option for users to refer content to another user who is a part of the portal/ account. Users are only required to enter the email of another user and an email will be generated and sent to the referred user with a link of that content. Learn more about How to Refer Media to Viewers.

Yes, VIDIZMO allows users to retrieve the deleted media files from a Portal. When media is deleted, the content is removed from the portal. However, there is a chance that the media is mistakenly deleted, hence, for content integrity purposes, VIDIZMO provides an option to customizable retention policy for content. Depending on the expiry of the retention period, , users will have to contact VIDIZMO support for the retrieval of deleted content. Once the content is deleted, it remains on servers till the retention period and can be recovered by VIDIZMO support team. After the lapse of the retention period for the media, the media is purged forever.

Yes, 360-degree videos can be ingested and used in VIDIZMO platform. To enable this, the user will have to select Enable 360 View checkbox to allow users to view the video in 360. This checkbox should only be enabled if the video was recorded in 360. VIDIZMO player supports playback for 360-degree videos and users can rotate the video by clicking and dragging it around.

Yes, VIDIZMO offers a capability to show relevant content to different types of users. Content will be displayed related to the media being playback. VIDIZMO employs a recommendation algorithm which is based on titles, author names, categories, Tags, and Description.

The autoplay feature in VIDIZMO automatically plays video content as soon as it is accessed via the web application or any other page where it is embedded. However, if the autoplay feature does not work in VIDIZMO, you may need to adjust or check the autoplay settings in your web browser. This is because some browsers restrict autoplay functionality based on their media engagement index, which is a recent policy change. 

For Chrome, refer to the Autoplay Policy Changes, which are similar across major browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and Edge.

Autoplay is not allowed by default. Users need to configure their browser settings to enable it.

To enable autoplay in Chrome browser, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Site Information icon located beside the URL.

2. A permission tab will appear. Click on it.

3. From the Autoplay permission dropdown menu, select Allow Audio and Video.

4. Next, navigate to your browser settings.

5. In the Privacy and Settings tab, click on Site Settings.

6. In Site Settings, under recent activity, find your site. If it's not listed, click on View Permissions and Data Stored Across Sites to search for your site.

7. Select Allow for sound permission for your portal/domain.

For other major browsers Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge, refer to the attached links for guidance on enabling autoplay.

To get more information about understanding the Player template feature, refer to Understanding Player Templates.