{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Wistia Updates","description":"wistia.com","icon":"https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/WYO8CZGPadfWDRRYjcbY/newspages/YTpQPYoTPiDII3gSqhSn/01h55ta3gsxvhf8gy6b6hyfc70-header-logo.png","favicon":"https://storage.noticeable.io/projects/WYO8CZGPadfWDRRYjcbY/newspages/YTpQPYoTPiDII3gSqhSn/01h55ta3gsaxk1hpndxkkqj1pt-favicon.ico","items":[{"id":"pojwbDrhgl69ivp2SbaF","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/our-video-editor-has-a-new-look","title":"\uD83E\uDEA9 Our video editor has a new look ","authors":[{"name":"Ariana Kornblau","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/CysNoZQJOuU5rbQBSnGDLxp9uXg1/01h55ta3gshzra0xc3yt587wa6-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["All Plans","Announcement"],"content_html":"
A new year calls for a new look for Wistia’s editing feature. This glow-up will have you trimming, stitching, and adding background music like a pro.
Our new left-hand navigation makes it much easier to pull in bumpers, background music, other clips, or transitions right into the timeline! Speaking of transitions, We’ve added a new one! Fade to white. Oh, and don’t forget about our handy text-based editing that’s the key to the fastest editing yet.
I guess you could say we’ve spruced up the place a bit. But, don’t worry, all the functionality you know and love is still available. Here’s a quick rundown:
Adding video, music, and transitions has moved to the left-hand menu.
Accessing clip properties, such as adjusting the volume, can now be found in Properties within the left-hand menu.
Next to your video title, you’ll see progress updates in real-time.
Now you can delete transitions directly from your timeline.
Find keyboard shortcuts and help docs by clicking the “?” on the lower right-hand side of your screen.
Have a video that could use a quick polish? Hop on into editing there to see the new look.
Thanks!
Team Wistia
","date_published":"2024-02-22T16:28:55Z","date_modified":"2024-02-22T16:28:59Z"},{"id":"6Hmf7ouyCwUzWaXyZy5Z","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/update-to-the-wistia-studio-1","title":"\uD83C\uDF07 Update to the Wistia Studio","summary":"We're making it easier to record and edit from anywhere in Wistia by removing the Studio.","authors":[{"name":"Jacob Watson","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/mNllaWQnaZdOYY6HI49b2iOe5322/01h55ta3gsppevz449wj0hqdqr-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["All Plans","Announcement"],"content_html":"TL;DR? You let us know that the Studio wasn’t exactly easy to use. So, we’re making it more streamlined to record and edit from anywhere in Wistia.
Right now, the Studio serves as a central hub for recordings and drafts, allowing users to initiate new recordings or drafts and store them for future access. We received a lot of super helpful feedback from users like you that this workflow was making things harder, not easier.
Plus, when we dug into usage, we also found that most of our users record, edit, and share their media right away! And we think that’s great. But, that also helped us understand that the Studio was a temporary space and not meeting your needs. Now that you know the “why” let’s dig into the “when.”
Don’t worry; we’re giving you plenty of time to adjust before we remove the Studio. Here’s a look at the timeline of our phased approach:
We aim to remove the studio in early January 2024.
Through 2023 you’ll notice us streamlining some things:
October: Any new recordings you make will become media automatically.
November: Every media will only have one draft state and we’ll prompt you to move your drafts and recordings out of the Studio, and into the Content Library.
And that’s it! We’ll send you an email once the Studio is gone and we’ll be here for you throughout the process.
While we might be saying goodbye to the \"Studio\", recording and editing are still at your fingertips—now more accessible than ever.
Why is the Studio being phased out?
We want to provide you with the best Wistia experience. And after extensive research, we concluded that Studio added more complexity than benefits. Our new direction makes it easier than ever to create videos efficiently.
What was the Studio's purpose?
The Studio functioned as a repository for recordings and drafts. It allowed users to initiate and store recordings and drafts privately.
How does this impact my drafts and recordings?
With this update, each media will link to one draft, which updates automatically. Recordings will be stored directly as media within the Content Library. That means you can embed or share them with anyone, right away.
Note: Because recordings will automatically become media, that means you might reach your media limits faster. But, don’t worry. We’ll let you know if that’s the case so you can decide whether to keep, archive, or delete your media. There shouldn’t be any surprises for you!
What about ongoing drafts in Studio?
We recommend you save any in-progress edits to your Content Library, before Studio's phase-out.
How can I initiate a new recording without the Studio?
We've made recordings more discoverable! Click “New” in the Content Library to start a recording. A '+' icon in the top navigation bar that makes it easy to record from anywhere is coming soon.
Will you offer guides during this transition?
Absolutely! Starting in November 2023, in-app communications will guide users through these changes. Plus, our customer-facing teams are ready to help
When will these changes be implemented?
Changes will be rolled out between October and January. The Studio will be officially removed by January 1, 2024.
How do I ensure no work is lost during this transition?
You’ll have until the end of 2023 to move, delete, or archive your recordings and drafts. Any content left in the Studio will be soft deleted in case something crucial gets removed.
As we transition away from Studio, we’re committed to supporting you along the way. Just let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.
Have more questions? Please don't hesitate to reach out to our support@wistia.com, and we'll be right with you.
This information is also available in our help center.
","date_published":"2023-11-01T14:35:59Z","date_modified":"2023-11-01T16:00:47Z"},{"id":"SbMT28Rd7ZQzM7olB4oU","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/meet-the-wistia-monday-com-integration","title":"➡️ Meet the Wistia + monday.com integration","summary":"Streamline your workflows by connecting the video power of Wistia to the management power of monday.com.","authors":[{"name":"Kelsey Stevens","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/ZPCwWZapRcf7FIO9KOLYcv6sFXY2/01h55ta3gsptw6q5bnav694mbt-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["All Plans","Announcement"],"content_html":"The Wistia + monday.com integration allows you to use video (and your video data) to streamline your marketing and project management workflows.
All you have to do is connect the integration and pick a board. Customize your event triggers a little, or a lot, and see the new items roll into your monday.com accounts.
If you’re managing the video creation lifecyle, you can notify your team every time you’re ready for them to hop in and edit, collaborate, or publish your media. And if you’re using monday.com as a CRM, you can get notified when a lead converts on a video so you can connect them with a member of your team as quickly as possible.
Ready to combine the power of video and your other workflows? Head on over to monday.com to connect the integration today!
Get started in your monday.com account today! For more information and steps on getting this set up, check out our Help Center Documentation.
","date_published":"2023-10-12T14:20:00Z","date_modified":"2023-10-12T14:20:30Z"},{"id":"Q3uTxyUecNJUgVj0xAfB","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/introducing-ai-chaptering","title":"Introducing AI Chaptering!","summary":"Creating video chapters just got magical with AI Chaptering! Save time, customize effortlessly, and let your creativity shine.","authors":[{"name":"Yooni Choi","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/d1vLfWGAbfbxXebz4C334F0WCf93/01h55ta3gs29z535cff1y2b2xf-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["All Plans","New Feature","Announcement"],"content_html":"
We’re excited to unveil AI Chaptering! Starting today, you can experience the magic of effortless video chapter creation like never before.
AI Chaptering is your shortcut to hassle-free video chapters. Simply upload or generate a transcript for your video, head over to the Customize panel, and you can instantly generate perfectly timed chapters for your content!
You can also also generate transcripts using the … (meatball menu) in the Transcript panel!
And the best part? You’re in control! Easily tweak titles and timings to match your creative vision.
Note — generating chapters using our new AI Chapter creator will replace existing chapters.
This feature is available to all users with access to video customization tools on our new Wistia plans. Learn how you can switch from your legacy plan.
Let Wistia help you save time with the new AI Chaptering feature and let you get back to the rest of your video journey. Happy creating!
","date_published":"2023-10-09T18:06:30Z","date_modified":"2023-10-13T18:20:27Z"},{"id":"wnAqfyYHHUCqHNFI1CLX","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/collaborate-better-with-team-commenting","title":"\uD83D\uDCAC Collaborate better with team commenting ","summary":"Now you can give feedback, get approvals, and leave your team notes right in Wistia.","authors":[{"name":"Kelsey Stevens","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/ZPCwWZapRcf7FIO9KOLYcv6sFXY2/01h55ta3gsptw6q5bnav694mbt-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["All Plans","New Feature","Announcement"],"content_html":"Looking for stakeholder feedback? Get those approvals faster with team commenting in Wistia. Hey, you might even be able to ditch a tool or two and streamline your approval processes.
Now you can leave (or receive!) time-coded comments on your videos. No Wistia login? No sweat. Just share your media page with your CMO, clients, or anyone who needs to sign off. They can leave their time-coded comments for you to dig into.
Want to check it out? It’s easy. Just go ahead and:
Head over to any media page and select “Comments.” There’s where the collaboration happens.
Pause or select any point in the timeline.
Start your comment in the “Team” tab for internal collaboration, or click “Audience” to get external feedback.
Ready to share with others? Simply tag them, or if they aren’t a Wistia user, select the option to have “team comments” show on the public media page.
Just like other video collaboration tools you might be used to, you’ll get a neat little icon right on the timeline that represents your feedback. And yes! You’ll get email notifications, too. Just tag a team member to get the ball rolling.
Consolidate your tools by bringing collaboration into Wistia. Team commenting is available on all plans! Yep, you can ditch the complicated workflows and start commenting in Wistia right today.
Want more info? Check out the nitty gritty details on commenting in our help center.
","date_published":"2023-09-13T18:09:29Z","date_modified":"2023-09-15T16:27:16Z"},{"id":"n9KKxdkshzEKAiLcUXcI","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/speed-up-video-edits-with-text-based-editing","title":"\uD83C\uDFC3\uD83C\uDFFDSpeed up video edits with text-based editing","authors":[{"name":"Ariana Kornblau","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://storage.noticeable.io/users/CysNoZQJOuU5rbQBSnGDLxp9uXg1/01h55ta3gshzra0xc3yt587wa6-avatar.jpg","empty":false}],"tags":["New Feature","Announcement","All Plans"],"content_html":"Great news—your transcript is now your video-editing sidekick. Thanks to text-based editing, you can quickly interact directly with your transcript to scrub through videos and delete the parts you don’t need.
Now in our video editor, when you press play, not only will the playhead move along the timeline, you’ll see your text highlighted on the right side. Each word gets highlighted as the speaker talks in the video, helping you easily scrub through your content to make precise edits.
There are two ways to scrub with our interactive transcript:
Jump around to click on individual words or sections you want to remove (even silence).
Or, gently scroll on through the entire transcript as it plays.
Want to remove a quick uhm or ah? Select the silence indicators directly and click delete on your keyboard!
With text-based editing, you have more control over your edits. And if you don’t want to edit via transcript at all, that’s cool, too. Just toggle the transcript button next to the zoom controls to hide the transcript while you work.
Ready to speed up your video editing? Text-based editing is available on all New Plans! That’s right, from Free —> Premium. If you still aren’t seeing the Studio in app, head on over to this page to learn about migrating to our new Wistia plans.
Customers on a plus plan or higher now have the ability to customize elements on their public facing (“logged out”) media page.
Within Wistia, you will now see an “Edit/Preview Media Page” button at the top of the media page view. Upon entering you’ll get a similar experience to Channels customization where you can update the following on your media page:
Change the player letterbox color to dark, light or a custom color that matches your brand/player
Select a new font for text that appear on the page
Update the font size for the Title
Hide & Show the Title or Description from the page for a cleaner look or if you prefer to keep these items for internal use only
All changes can be previewed within the experience and saved when you’re ready to publish and share!
If you’re on our Free Plan, make the switch, or start a trial to learn more.
","date_published":"2023-03-29T16:00:00Z","date_modified":"2023-03-28T18:48:43Z"},{"id":"3fZT2XEKRohclihy9Plt","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/seamlessly-transition-between-clips","title":"Seamlessly transition between clips","authors":[{"name":"Ariana Kornblau","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AItbvmmNFoOxbTwypZFa4ZwaFFGREI3w5Mz6TMpHsCZF=s96-c","empty":false}],"tags":["New Feature","Announcement"],"content_html":"Use editing to make your videos flow more smoothly.
In case you haven’t heard, we’ve made it our mission to help anyone (at any skill level!) create high-quality content right in Wistia. The latest step toward that mission? Helping you create videos that look and feel more seamless.
Transitions make your videos flow more smoothly, connecting two clips together without a jerky jump cut. Just take a look at this example below!
To get started:
Hover over the start or end of any clips edges and you’ll be prompted with + button.
You’ll want to click that! Then, you’ll have the option to add a transition or add more media right there in your timeline.
From here, the properties panel will open where you can choose your transition style. For now, it’s fade—but there will be more to come.
And voila! Your transition has been applied.
To see your transitions at a glance, we’ve added an interactive widget right on your timeline. That way, you don’t have to guess where you’ve made them. Need to delete? No sweat. Just click the transition widget and select None from the menu. In the future, you’ll be able to apply different styles of transitions right from there.
Now go on, and play that puppy back—seamless from clip to clip.
","date_published":"2023-03-21T17:27:35Z","date_modified":"2023-03-21T17:27:39Z"},{"id":"vnY1uDeiUz15yrUn2thj","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/your-january-product-spotlight","title":"\uD83D\uDD26 Your January product spotlight","summary":"We’re making content management easier—and a whole lot more! ","authors":[{"name":"Courtney Lefferts","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GhRM12XdjxkntNe_BAjYOFgb6aGVHTNzKQtSRMv1Q=s96-c","empty":false}],"tags":["Improvement","New Feature","Announcement"],"content_html":"We’re super excited to kick off the new year with a new monthly product update series. Welcome! We’re happy to have you here.
In case you missed the updates here on the changelog, we announced a new integration with Zoom that lets you consolidate your video hosting, a new way for you to organize your content by tagging and archiving your videos, and new a grid view so you can easily scan your videos quickly. But, that’s not it. We’ve also improved search and added a way to see where a video is embedded before deleting it.
But it’s not all about tidying up. Now you can add a bumper and stitch together multiple clips with our editing feature, and watermark your media by uploading your logo. Wrapping it all up? There’s a new media page preview so you can sneak a peek at what your media pages look like for your audience before you share it.
Want even more of this new new? Check out our blog and don’t forget to keep an eye on this changelog for more exciting updates.
If you’re reading this on a Friday, we hope you have a great weekend.
-The Wistia Team
","date_published":"2023-02-03T21:09:22Z","date_modified":"2023-02-03T21:18:27Z"},{"id":"wOyaUwyZtf65o6r71i8E","url":"https://updates.wistia.com/publications/new-stitch-your-clips","title":"\uD83E\uDEA1New! Stitch your clips","authors":[{"name":"Ariana Kornblau","url":"mailto:beta@wistia.com","avatar":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AItbvmmNFoOxbTwypZFa4ZwaFFGREI3w5Mz6TMpHsCZF=s96-c","empty":false}],"tags":["New Feature","Announcement"],"content_html":"Have a bumper waiting in the wings? Now you can add more videos to your timeline with stitching.
You told us that you wanted to add bumpers, intros, outros, and other clips to your editing timeline in Wistia. And instead of saying “you asked, we answered,” we’re just going to say…we did it!
Now you can upload a video into Wistia and add that as a personalized intro, bumper, or any other clip to your editing timeline. Just add, rearrange, trim, and there you have it! (We just ask that you keep it under four hours. Not too shabby, right?)
What can you do with stitching?
Rearrange clips how you want
Once you have multiple clips on your timeline, whether you split them or uploaded them, you can now drag, rearrange, and drop them across the timeline.
Keep your clips organized
You’ll notice a nifty new properties panel to the right. That’s where you’ll find things like:
Clip Name: Differentiate clips by naming them
Volume Control: Make sure your audio levels are…level
Help Icon: Get access to editing tips when you need them
And more to come!
This exciting update is available to users on our new Pro, Advanced, and Premium Plans! Don’t have one of these plans? Make the switch, or start a trial to learn more.
Keep on stitching! We can’t wait to hear what you think.
-The Wistia Team
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