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Play Stack - Badass Video Player thumbnail

Play Stack - Badass Video Player

08/11/2023
Play is a great video player with some very unique features not seen anywhere else. The play button animations will be an eye catcher that make you want to stay on the page hovering on and off for fun. The video thumbnails will add another dimension to your content that will make it more compelling for users to watch your videos. And don't forget that it's fast! Check out Play for Stacks at https://www.weavers.space/stacks/play

Transcript

00:00 don't know
00:10 hey everybody Joe here and I'm really
00:12 excited to introduce you to the amazing
00:14 new play video stack it's even more
00:17 badass than this shirt so let's look at
00:20 what sets play apart from the rest of
00:23 the video Stacks that are out there so
00:25 one of the big things that sets play
00:27 apart is really apparent it's the
00:29 awesome and amazing hover animations for
00:32 the thumbnails
00:33 in this particular example we see that
00:35 the thumbnail is actually rotating and
00:37 scaling in we have some different
00:39 styling going on with the play button
00:41 and if we look at further down here we
00:44 even have some great amazing animations
00:46 where this button goes ahead and zooms
00:48 and scales the entire width
00:50 and not only that if we look a little
00:52 bit deeper we'll see that the thumbnail
00:54 for this video is actually another video
00:57 that's looping this gives a great way
01:00 for users to get a sneak peek of what is
01:02 actually going to be seen inside the
01:04 video once they click now we have two
01:07 options for actually playing the video
01:09 in this demo when we click we'll see
01:11 that the actual video plays in line on
01:14 the web page
01:16 now in this example we'll see that when
01:18 I click the video will actually open up
01:19 inside of a light box
01:22 now configuring play is super easy Once
01:25 you add it to the page you'll notice
01:27 that you have multiple ways to embed
01:28 video you can either easily bring in
01:30 videos from YouTube Vimeo or HTML5 which
01:34 will allow you to bring in a video file
01:36 from your own server
01:38 then you configure the URLs for that
01:40 then we also have a lot of different
01:41 options for thumbnails by default the
01:44 video will actually bring in the
01:46 thumbnail from the service so either the
01:48 poster image from HTML5 or from YouTube
01:50 or from Vimeo but you can also Define
01:52 your own images either by drag and drop
01:55 or Warehouse bringing them from Total
01:57 CMS or as we saw earlier we can actually
02:00 embed a video as our thumbnail as well
02:02 it's super easy to configure whether or
02:04 not you want your player to be a inline
02:06 player or actually open it up in a light
02:09 box but then show some Styles and
02:11 animation options for that particular
02:13 light box
02:15 now for any power users or Foundation
02:17 users we can actually go ahead and add
02:18 some custom classes and use our own
02:20 swatches to style these thumbnails even
02:23 further next is we have options for play
02:26 button do we want it to be a circle or a
02:29 rectangle then we have a bunch of style
02:31 options here we can actually customize
02:33 the SVG that's within that button as
02:36 well with our own custom SVG
02:39 and then we can customize the width and
02:41 the borders and the radius and all kinds
02:43 of stuff super easily directly right in
02:45 the settings
02:45 and just as with the thumbnail we can
02:47 customize this button even farther with
02:50 swatches in our own CSS using custom
02:52 classes
02:54 and lastly we have the ability to
02:56 animate so either what we want to
02:57 animate the button or just the thumbnail
02:59 or animate both the button and the
03:02 thumbnail on Hover and then we have
03:03 various options for that
03:06 if you have some of the other amazing
03:07 Stacks from Weaver space you can easily
03:09 integrate with total CMS rain check and
03:11 cookie jar so that we can make sure that
03:13 we get faster page performance make sure
03:16 that users get cookie control so that
03:18 you know YouTube embeds might not be
03:20 enabled by default and you want to make
03:22 sure that users actually accept that
03:24 with cookie jar so as you can see play
03:27 has some really unique features not
03:28 seeing anywhere else on the web it is
03:31 super easy to configure it's fast in
03:34 performance and it really looks
03:36 spectacular it truly is a badass video
03:39 player so I hope you enjoy play we will
03:41 see you soon go out there and make your
03:43 websites great bye
03:49 foreign
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