Manula software updates related to "videos"

A few weeks ago, Manula user Joe asked:

Is there a way that you can access the library of images, videos and files etc…….. rather than having to access from a topic when inserting?

I would like to upload all the files, videos etc in advance so that I can use them across all the different topics if required. Or, if I need to replace an image, I don’t want to have to go back into the topic editor to do so.

Excellent point, Joe!

So as of today, there is new Media Manager item in the menu, even at the account level, that lets you go straight to the Image, Video and Document managers:

In the Video Manager, you can now (optionally) set the Start and End time for YouTube videos. The embedded videos, when played, will then play only the video section between the selected Start time and end time.

For Wistia videos, it is only possible to set a Start time, since Wistia doesn’t support End times for embedded videos.

Sadly, Start/End times are not supported when embedding Vimeo videos.

Manula already had support for embedding videos into your topics, using either videos hosted on YouTube or Vimeo.

Today we added Wistia to this list, a video hosting platform that is targeted at business videos, so a great fit for Manula.
The management and inserting of Wistia works exactly the same as YouTube and Vimeo, just grab the video ID from your Wistia video URL and add it to our Video Manager:

Just added to your Video Manager:
A new setting to have you videos start playing automatically after opening a topic:

You may have been wondering about the lack of feature updates for well over a month. Well, this is why. We have been working on a complete rewrite and redesign of the Image and Video Managers, making them clearer, easier-to-use and adding a few features.