Wistia Updates

Wistia Updates

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✂️ Updates to our editing feature

by Ariana Kornblau
Have you heard? Now you can edit your videos right in Wistia! Announced in June of 2022, our editing feature helps you trim, split, and cut your clips to polish your content for your viewers. From webinars to live events and everything in
New Feature

Retiring Video Quality Account Setting

by Alex Santos, Staff Product Manager
Today we are retiring the Video Quality selection from account settings. Instead, the Wistia player will deliver the best possible version of your video at any given time by using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for adaptive streaming. With this

Updates to Account Usage page

by Caitlin Kullberg, Senior Product Manager
The Account Usage page just got an update. This page is where Account Owners and Managers can see details about your account's monthly bandwidth and media usage. Get there by going to Account > Settings > Account Usage. Once you're there,
Improvement

End of Support for IE 11 and Wistia embeddables

by Carlon McPherson
Starting today we will no longer be supporting IE 11 for our video player, audio player, Channels, and other embeddables. Video and audio embeds viewed on IE 11 will continue to have uninterrupted playback. Certain Channel embeds may

Playback Speed no longer stored in Viewer Preferences

by Carlon McPherson
Today, we’re making a small change to what settings are stored in our Viewer Preferences feature. Playback Speed will no longer be stored across videos. The starting Playback Speed will be scoped only to each individual video.
Improvement

Updates to Google Key Moments SEO Metadata

by Megan Salisbury
This summer Google introduced a new way to enable key moments on videos. Instead of having to define each Key Moment manually, Google can index the video for Key Moments automatically via a query param that links directly to a timestamp in
Improvement

Position and Themes for Annotations

by Meg Salisbury
You can now manage the position (left, right) and theme (light, dark) of your video annotations directly in Customize! Previously, these options were available by modifying the annotation plugin. We hope you take advantage of these
New Feature
Improvement

The IE 11 end-of-life Plan for Embeddables

by Meg Salisbury
Starting 1/1/22 we will no longer be supporting IE 11 for our audio player, video player, Channels, and other embeddables. This means that video and audio embeds viewed on IE 11 will continue to have uninterrupted playback. Certain Channel

Playlists, Password Protect, and Channel Popover Embed Updates

by Meg Salisbury
We have a few updates today! Playlists As of early 2019 we deprecated our Playlist functionality - existing playlists would continue to work, but no new playlists could be created. We are discontinuing engineering support as well - no
Improvement