Customize your video design settings

Video design settings allow you to customize and control how viewers experience and interact with your videos.

You can use design settings to:

• customize the colors on the video player (the play button, progress bar, and other video controls)
• change which controls are available to viewers (captions, playback speed)
• change which sharing options are available to viewers (social channels, email, embed codes)
• modify the video playback experience (with settings like autoplay)

Applying design settings to your videos

You can apply design settings to your videos in 2 different ways:

• 👉 As a default folder setting (allows you to apply settings to the videos across 1 or more folders in the account)
• 👉 To an individual video (allows you to adjust design settings unique to a specific video)

Customize the visual design of your video

Change the colors on your video player

You can change the video player color in three areas: the play button, the player controls, and the background color.

The play button sits on top of the video thumbnail before your viewer clicks play. It indicates to the viewer that the thumbnail image is actually a video.

The player controls appear whenever the viewer hovers over the video during playback. These include the play and pause buttons, the video progress bar, and settings to enter full-screen mode, adjust the volume, and manage video quality, playback speed, and captions (if enabled). 

1. Open the Design menu to begin
2. Select the color dropdown tool to change the color of the play button or the player controls
   • Use the color palette to select a color you like
   • Alternatively, enter a Hex Code or RGB value to select a precise color

The video background color applies to the "empty space" that appears whenever the aspect ratio of the video differs from the size of the embedded player (e.g., think about a vertical video recorded on a mobile device).

Open the dropdown menu and select a background color of black, white, or transparent.

Add the name of your video to the player

Switch the Video Name toggle to ON to add the name of your video to the player. The name appears in the top-left corner whenever the viewer hovers over the video during playback to reveal the controls.

Show the viewer's current play time and video length

Switch the Video Time toggle to ON to show viewers their current play time and the video's total duration (in MM:SS).

Video Time appears as timestamps in the player control bar whenever the viewer hovers over the video during playback.

Add a hover animation to the thumbnail

A hover animation makes the video thumbnail subtly "light up" whenever the viewer's cursor moves over the player on a page. This is a great way to draw attention to your video and entice your viewers to click play.

Switch the Thumbnail Hover Animation toggle to ON to enable this setting.

Change the player controls available to your viewers

The controls are the part of the player that lets viewers interact with the video and modify the playback experience to their preferences.

The player bar provides viewers with several options, including the play/pause button, progress bar, volume, video quality settings, fullscreen button, theater mode, and picture-in-picture buttons (sharing page only), captions, and playback speed (if enabled).

1. Open the Controls menu to begin
2. Use the toggles to enable or disable each setting (described below)

Change the share options available to your viewers

Adding a set of readily available sharing options to the player encourages viewers to re-share your video with their networks, increasing your message's reach and the potential traffic to your video and webpages.

You can choose which sharing options are available to viewers from the player, including options to share via Email, to social accounts such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as to allow viewers to re-embed the video on their own webpages.

1. Open the Share Options menu to begin
2. Toggle Sharing to ON to add the share options button to your player
3. Use the toggles to select the share options available to your viewers

Add a custom sharing link

By default, the sharing options on the player (i.e., Email, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn) link your viewers to the video's dedicated sharing page. A custom sharing link allows you to customize where the audiences referred to your video are directed.

For example, you might prefer viewers watch the video on your website or a custom landing page that you've designed.

1. Toggle the Custom Sharing Link option to ON
2. Enter a web address where you would like to direct referred viewers
   • URL must begin with http(s)://

Customize the playback behavior of your video

Use the options under the playback behavior menu to control how your video starts and what happens when it finishes.

Autoplay & Mute by Default

Toggle Autoplay to set your video to play automatically whenever a viewer lands on the page where the video is embedded.

Please note that autoplay with sound is currently blocked by default on mobile devices, Chrome, and Safari. Videos will start muted in browsers that do not allow autoplay with sound.

For the best experience across all devices, we recommend enabling the Mute by Default option and adding captions to your video so that viewers can begin to follow the video immediately and then enable sound if they choose.

Select an end-of-video action

Use the End of Video dropdown menu to customize what the player does once the video ends.

Customize the behavior of a playlist

Playlists inherit most settings from the first video in the list, including player colors, available controls and share options, as well as behaviors like autoplay.

However, some settings are unique to playlists that you may want to customize. These settings control how a viewer interacts with the multiple videos in the playlist.

1. Click on the title of a playlist in your library to open the edit page
2. Scroll down to the Player Design section, then select Edit

Change the behavior of the playlist menu

Open the Playlist setting tab to manage the available settings

Setting	Description	Example
Playlist	Adds the playlist menu to the player and allows the viewer to select other videos from the list
Playlist Always Open*	*Requires Playlist set to ON. Keeps the playlist permanently open to the left of the player. Allows the viewer to select other videos in the list and see the order in which they will play. You can also change the menu's color to black, white, or a custom color.
Video "Up Next" Preview*	*Cannot be enabled at the same time as Playlist Always Open As the current video comes to an end, present the viewer with a small preview of the next video in the playlist

Select an end-of-playlist action

Like a video's settings, you can choose what happens when a playlist ends. These actions occur specifically when the final video in the playlist finishes. 

Refer to end-of-video actions for an explanation of each option.

Optimize your video metadata

You can toggle on the Optimize metadata option to include JSON-LD metadata on pages where you've embedded or shared a video. This data provides accurate information about your videos to search and AI answer engines, without being visible to your viewer or increasing load times. Learn more