Hello,
Thank you for answering the survey above. May I please request an addition or feature? I believe it would be incredibly useful and helpful to your users.
Plus a simple and straight forward way to implement and manage videos. I feel this would benefit everyone, and encourage people to integrate video into their galleries more easily and obviously more often!
WHAT?
Add a new content type called "Video Gallery".
TYPE?
Content Types List (e.g. Text Page (not "textpage"), Folder, Filemod, Link)
WHERE?
When browsing/managing the ImageVue gallery directory content and hierachy.
SUMMARY
When adding a text page and having to add the code to embed a text link to a YouTube/Vimeo video, could we perhaps instead have a new content type called "Video Gallery".
What it would do is display a page that consists of a FORM plus semi-folder view.
The form would contain fields to ADD content to the folder (no upload or moving content to this folder, as per existing content types).
Example fields:
- Title
- Description
- Video Source (Radio buttons: Vimeo/YouTube)
- Source URL
- Thumbnail (optional upload image, otherwise grab Youtube generated thumbnail via API)
- META fields (basic meta fields that can be filled, and perhaps future API to "get/read" field values) - For example: Length, Format, Resolution(s), Date uploaded/created.....
- Rating (G, PG, M, etc)
- etc...
Added to view as other media is viewed. Can be sorted, dragged manually etc.
FUNCTIONS
After filling in the fields and clicking ADD (the video that has already been uploaded to Vimeo/YouTube) a new "Thumbnail" is added in the content listing of the Video Gallery folder. It displays the thumbnail chosen, or a generic default one, or future API functionality via get thumb, the title, etc, etc.
You progressively add more and more videos from any location.
Then when viewed from the front end, the gallery files would have a video watermark over the top of the video's thumbnail.
When clicked, opens in lightbox and plays.
If an "Info" or "Property" icon, in a corner of the video is clicked (from the file listing) then it could display all properties - e.g. Complete description, rating, video source, META fields, etc...
I think this would be a great addition which is incredibly simple, and is just a matter of creating "links" to the video content, so it displays as a lsit of thumbnails, instead of text. Plus would be easy enough for anyone to do, rather than messing around with JavaScript and text pages.
Does anyone else think this more "fluid" way of displaying videos in ImageVue would be beneficial an easier to create, manage and view?
Thank you for considering this for v3 / x3 or a future version of v2 / x2
Perhaps it could be an add-on purchased separately, or perhaps integrated into ImageVue?
Cheers!