Player Customization

You can create your own customized player on the Players tab in Sorenson 360.

customize:

Layout

Player Style
You can choose from two player styles for single videos, one with a static control bar and one with a floating control bar that fades out during playback. You can also choose a playlist player style.

Skin
You can choose from three skin types:

• Classic - A clean simple classic style with simple shapes
• Modern -A minimalist style with more line than fill
• Blogger - A blocky style with larger icons

Buttons

• Play/Pause - Button to start and stop your media file
  
• Scrubber - Viewers can use to skip back and forth by dragging the play-head along the timeline
  
• Time - The duration viewed and total duration of video. The duration viewed updates in real time.
  
• Mute - Button to completely disable audio
  
• Volume - Slider to adjust volume level
  
• Fullscreen - Button to go into full screen view. Press 'Esc' button to exit full screen.
  
• Embed Code - HTML code viewers can paste on their website to show others your video
  
• Share - Link to a permalink page where your video can be viewed. This can be changed to your own website by following these steps: http://forum.sorensonmedia.com/forum...ur-Own-Webpage
• Facebook - Post a link to the video to your Facebook feed
• Closed Captioning - Enable closed captions for your videos. You must upload a closed caption file to the video detail page for this option to work for your videos. For more information on closed captioning see this article here: http://forum.sorensonmedia.com/forum...ioning-360-CMS
  

Choose a color for the different parts of your player window

• Background Color - The color of the background behind your video. This will usually load before the reset of your video and in most cases is usually left black.
• Control Bar - Change the colors of the control bar and icons
  
• Gradients -Change the level of gradients of the background and control bar to give your player a different look
  

• Control Bar Height - Change the size (in pixels) of the control bar
• Control Bar Background Opacity - Change the level of opacity of the control bar from 1 (full opacity) to 0 (invisible).
  
• Autoplay - Have your video begin playing as soon as it loads
• Show play overlay - Show or hide the large play button in the middle of the frame before playback

Logo Options

• Upload Logo - Find a jpg, png, or swf file to use as your logo.
• Logo link - Enter a URL address which people will be sent to when clicking on your logo.
• Logo Position - Choose which corner to place your logo in.
• Display time - Choose how long you want the logo to remain on the screen.
• Opacity- Choose if you want your logo to be transparent, and if so, by how much.