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How to Use Advanced Video Editing Features?

How to Use Advanced Video Editing Features?



Video editing features are very important to personalize the page. This gives a personalized look to the video landing page.

See how the advanced video editing feature works:



Let’s see how it works:

When you open a video landing page, there will be following three tabs at the right:

Video Settings
Theme Settings
More Options

Let’s see these in detail.

Open landing page



Step-01:

While staying on the dashboard, click on the “Edit” button to open a Video Landing Page



Step-02:

You will see a ‘Right Panel’ with an arrow. Click on it to open the Panel to view the settings options



Step-03:

There will be three options:
Video Settings
Theme Settings
More Options




How to use Video settings



Click on the video settings from the right panel. The panel will have the following options:

Add Call-To-Action
Add Video Thumbnail
Advance Editing in Studio (BETA)

Add Call-To-Action

A CTA (call to action) is a term used in marketing to denote the act of encouraging viewers to take a specific action. Some of the simplest examples of CTAs would be inviting readers/viewers to follow a link, subscribe to a newsletter, buy a product, etc.

Right now Vumu CTA appears at the end of the video.

Soon the timebase CTA feature will be available.

Step-01:

Click the toggle to enable the CTA option



Step-02:

Button preview appears



Step-03:

By clicking on the button, a modal will appear with a few Presets



Step-04:

Choose any CTA from the modal and enter the details on right like Button copy, link, text color, and button color



Step-05:

After you made the changes, click the “Save” button



Add Video Thumbnail

Video thumbnails are an important part of publishing video. This would be the first impression for the viewer watching the video. Choose the best thumbnail which explains the video.

Step-01:

Click the toggle to enable the thumbnail option.



Step-02:

By default, a computer-generated thumbnail will be added if your video has a thumbnail



Step-03:

Click to replace the thumbnail from the computer. Ideally size 1152x750px is best for the video



Step-04:

An overlay with options crop, rotate, zoom In and out will appear. Choose the best area/angle of the image for the thumbnail and press “Ok” to save. Refresh the page and the new thumbnail will be the first to appear on the video.



Advance Editing in Studio (BETA)

If you want to give a professional look to your video with Vumu video editing studio, then you can do this with Vumu video editor. You can add text, generate subtitles in any language, add motion graphics, animated icons, merge videos, and many more.

See this article for a complete overview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TUQ1Mofkls8dBuWgo3NFchMxAF7SyUSKruDznPC10B4/edit


How to use Theme settings

The theme is very important for the landing page. This will definitely enhance the appearance of the page and also enhance readability.

See this article for a complete overview: https://help.vumu.io/en/article/how-to-change-the-theme-of-your-video-landing-page-40zhi0/?bust=1660028745878


How to use More Options

There are more but important options available under “More Options”. The following are the options:

Enable Comments
Enable Signature
Set Password
Notify My video is the first time viewed
Someone leaves a Comment


Enable Comments:

By default, this option is enabled. By enabling these options the page visitor will have the following two options:

Text Comment
Video Comment

A comment is the starting point of a conversation. This option is available for all the visitors who visited the Vumu landing page (either a Vumu user’s logged in or not the vumu user). Visitors can leave a text comment just by entering the name.

Text Comment:


Step-01:

Click the Comment icon.



Step-02 (a):

If you are a signed-in user, then a field will appear where you have to enter your comment and then hit the send button



Step-02 (b):

If you are a non-signed-in user, then two fields will appear where you have to enter your name and comment and then you can hit the send button



Step-03:

The comments will appear at the bottom of the page.



Step-04:

You can add a reply to the existing comment by clicking on the "reply" button



Video Comment:


Step-01:

Click the record comment icon.



Step-02:

After hitting the ‘Record Comment’ button, a modal will appear and you can choose any recording option from the displayed modal



Step-03:

Choose the ‘screen’ option and hit the ‘start recording’ button to record your screen



Step-04:

If you want to record your own video, choose ‘webcam’ and click the ‘start recording’ button to record a video



Step-05:

To record a screen and yourself, go with the ‘webcam+screen’ option and click on ‘start recording’



Enable Signature:

Enable the E-signature option



Step-01:

If you want to get an email of the user who signed the proposal, mark the checkbox against the "Email required"



Step-02:

If you want a "Thank you page" to have appeared right after the proposal gets signed, mark the checkbox against the "Thank you page required"



Step-03:

You can give a value to your proposal by adding a digit in the Add Proposal Value" field



Set Password:

Enable the toggle against ‘Set Password’



Step-01:

Enter at least 5 digit password in the given panel



Step-02:

To view your password click on the ‘preview’ button



Step-03:

Click on the ‘Save’ button to make the changes saved



Please note that while sharing the video with your prospects, don’t forget to share the password of the video with them

Notify My video is the first time viewed:


If you want to get notified about who viewed your video for the 1st time, enable the toggle



Someone leaves a Comment:


If you want to get a notification if anyone leaves a comment on your video, then enable the toggle

Updated on: 23/08/2022

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