Wistia Updates

Wistia Updates

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New Log In Page

by Josh Johnson
Our new log in page has more room to learn about what's new at Wistia.
New Feature
Improvement

Video color improvements

by Kristin Bagnoli
We recently released an update that improves the handling of video color during our encoding process. That means the colors of the Wistia derivatives are more accurate to your original version. Any videos uploaded after December 16...
New Feature
Improvement

Player Animation & Behavior Improvements

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
We have two small but delightful updates to the Wistia player live now: A more refined and smooth play / pause animation Standard embeds now behave much better with CSS transforms and zoom
Improvement

A few fixes to popover behavior

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
We have a handful of tweaks to the behavior & tracking of popover embeds coming in hot 🚀. The following bug fixes are now live: Turnstiles at the beginning of the video will no longer trigger "play" events if the popover is opened...
Improvement

Bug fix: Hiding controls on fullscreen

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Bug: If you clicked the fullscreen button and didn't move the mouse at all afterward, the controls would never hide. If you were to refresh the page and click to play without moving the mouse, the controls might never hide. This is now...

Ability to show a popover without it autoplaying

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Using Embed Options, you can now set a popover to not autoplay once it's opened. The viewer will need to click play themselves. The embed option is: The default behavior for popovers is that once clicked, they autoplay as soon as they...
Improvement

Ability to remove 'Click to play' on a looping video thumbnail

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Using Embed Options, you can now remove the 'Click to play' option on the player when adding a looping video thumbnail by setting it to If you're unfamiliar with using Embed Options, you can learn more here, as well as read up on our...
Improvement

Bug fix: Popover video behavior on mobile

by Molly, Product @ Wistia
Bug: When watching a popover in full-screen, then exiting full-screen mode, the video would be either too small or too big for the page. This issue is now fixed. 🎉

Custom Turnstile Buttons

by Molly Wolfberg
Improvement
You can now customize the button that someone clicks to submit their turnstile.
Custom Turnstile Buttons