Q: Update for 1/29/2020 We sincerely appreciate all the support from the AppSumo community.
Many of you have asked great questions and all comments are valued... praise, criticism, or otherwise. We simply want to push SmartVideo forward.
We've received so many great feature requests that we are looking forward to add to the product. We've already been able to deliver on several of the most popular requests:
- Play button shapes: We've now expanded the options to change the play button and updated this capability in our WordPress plugin. No longer are you locked into the default hexagonal shape.
- Domain protected video sources. For Sumo-lings that had their videos locked to certain domains on Vimeo, Publitio, and others, we now support using them with SmartVideo.
- Improved watermark functionality.
- Improved thumbnail extraction from Vimeo & YouTube.
- Added 24 (!) articles/tutorials to our Help Center to help Sumo-lings get up and running even faster.
- Spoken with 300+ Sumo-lings through our live support, helping with on-boarding and learning more about how everyone is using video to grow their businesses! This is our favorite part as we love seeing what people are building.
-And for our many new Australian and Kiwi customers, we have been able to make video streaming awesome! It's a continuing eye-opener to hear just how terrible video streaming in the Oceania region is with most providers.
gauravsingh
Verified purchaser
Hey Philip,
Glad to hear these changes. I had a query regarding the latest update
"Domain protected video sources. For Sumo-lings that had their videos locked to certain domains on Vimeo, Publitio, and others, we now support using them with SmartVideo"
Service like Vimeo allows us to lock the domains where these videos can be played. Essentially it is a destination and not a video source. So is it the source or destination that would be domain locked?
And how does this work? To have a video playback domain locked, I would need to pay a certain amount to Vimeo every month (as per the plan I choose). So does swarmify auto picks those settings from Vimeo and adds the same to swarmify videos. Or do we need to specify the same in Swarmify Settings.
The query arises from the fact that in first case, I would be paying Vimeo as well as Swarmify. In second case if the settings are possible in Swarmify, I can just stop using Vimeo and work only with Swarmify (and stack more codes :) )
Philip_SwarmifyHello,
We appreciate the question. Domain locking at Vimeo only means someone cannot take your video and play/embed it on their own or another website. Since SmartVideo isn’t a "sharing" video platform like Vimeo or YouTube, but instead geared towards business video played back on the owners own site, we do not provide embed codes or other mechanisms for people to take our player and embed them on their own site.
Verified purchaser
Hey Philip,
This somewhat answers the protection aspect. But the problem with most streaming platforms is that you can go to network tab in dev tools in a desktop browser and all the files links are available like this one - https://video-node.swarmcdn.com/e6acb147-8e81-482c-acd7-15312db3a845/0a391aeb77a1616553b876779d852bd9d77078261519078c5cf3e0033bd2f846.mp4
Now I won't deny that Swarmify is stupendously fast. You don't feel any sort of lag while playing videos. But unlike Vimeo videos which take some effort to download, and Wistia (although super expensive) doesn't allow to download audio+video even with popular browser extensions, Swarmify Videos are pretty much in open.
Now can as quick protection, since all streaming videos come from your CDN, can the direct MP4's disallowed playback without swarmify player? Then it becomes a superfast media player with pretty decent protection.
dahlasHey Phillip
I am interested in this deal but a little confused how it will actually work on my membership platform - 10xpro.io
(From your video and comments it seems Swarmify is primarily a solution for public videos on a WordPress site ??)
Currently I load my course videos into my 10xpro.io course platform using Vimeo embed code.
Can I embed the same way with Swarmify - and keep my videos private ?
Will my custom thumbnails loaded into Vimeo for each video also be transferred automatically via Swarmify into my membership platform 10xpro.io ?
Are you offering a storage solution or will I still have to pay extra storage in Dropbox to host my videos (instead of Vimeo)
Thanks
Hi dahlas.
You can install Swarmify on any CMS that allows you to paste a JavaScript snippet above the </HEAD> tag similar to Google Analytics. Here's the tutorial on that. https://bit.ly/38IhA3K
Swarmify will automatically pick up and convert your Vimeo embed codes on your site automatically and will even pull your custom thumbnail saving you lots of time. To post new videos, you can simply use our SmartVideo tag like this. https://bit.ly/2uadP8j
In terms of storage, we've found a large majority of video publishers already keep their original files stored in some type of online location. So Swarmify was designed to help them by simply pointing us to those locations to fetch a copy instead of having to re-upload everything to us since moving video platforms can be a pain...especially if someone has a lot of videos on their website. Hence, why we also do YouTube and Vimeo conversions and try to automate as much of this as we can on our customers behalf.
Thanks for your prompt response Phillip sounds great.
I am just double checking with 10xpro.io that it is all doable !!!
space_talkVerified purchaser
Hi Philip
I am going a bit crazy for the last 5 days trying to get basic startup support from Swarmify. These are my ticket numbers: 6969, 6958 and 6964 (they are all the same, trying to get my issue sorted)
So I am grabbing url's from google drive and embedding that inside of clickfunnels.
Firstly, the smartvideo tag mentioned in your help articles is wrong and it took 3 days for the support to give me the correct one.
Now, that this part is sorted, I am having issues with videos not playing in the mobile version and also looking strange in terms of size. I am clueless about how to fix it. I find myself sitting and waiting for that information to show up. Do you guys have a LIVE chat support at all?
Also, I had asked about how to change the player options - volume, colors, logo, cover image etc so that i can learn how to make this look visually good.
Sharing the link with you again for a quick look (there are 5 videos right on top), hoping for a real quick input:
https://www.acceleratorlab.business/organic-accelerator-bootcamp
Thanks
Himani