Do More with the Player Designer

We’ve added a long list of upgrades to the Player Designer, our WYSIWYG Flash Player editor that helps you create, customize, and publish a video player in minutes. Without any HTML, CSS, or Flash development skills, you can create a player, select a content feed, choose a layout and skin, pick colors, and publish.

The new Player Designer features give you even greater ability to customize the viewing experience and player usability.

Performance Improvements

  • Completely rebuilt in Action Script 3, the new Player Designer players run more efficiently.
  • An optimized object loading process and skinning model improve video display and make the start speed faster than ever.

Design Improvements

  • We have added more tools for manipulating the control racks, with options to hide the nav bar and support floating controls in any skin, and offer more control over how you display the amount of play time left.
  • There are more tools for viewing changes without having to actually load the player. For example, color changes are displayed in real time in the WYSIWYG interface. We even have added the ability to present a persistent logo overlay on Player Designer players.

Viral Distribution Improvements

  • You can now control many more aspects of players embedded on third-party web sites. Control playback options such as auto-play, play all, shuffle, and full screen.
  • Set custom dimensions on your embedded players.
  • Embed your players in more locations such as Facebook. Finally, we’ve added new embedding option to get player URL either as a basic link or as a source “src” in an <embed> tag and control whether either one is used.

Third-party Plugin Integration

thePlatform is always looking for new and valuable ways to integrate our third-party partner plugins. The Player Designer is no exception. There is now a “Plug-ins” tab in the Player Designer where you can enable plugins for partners including Adap.tv, Google Analytics, Lightningcast, LiveRail, Microsoft Ad Center, Omniture, and more to come.

Further Customization Options

Finally, we’ve opened up the Player Designer player for more custom code insertions. Add your own custom Flash vars from within the WYSIWYG editor, where you can set an ad pattern, override the email server, and otherwise customize the player.

Contact us today to find out how the new Player Designer features can give you the tools you need to create a more compelling user experience.

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