How do I show or hide the video player controls?

Q: How do I show or hide the video player controls?

Open the video, select Design, and go to the Player section. Turn on Hide All Controls to remove the control bar, or leave it off and choose each control one at a time: time, seekbar, seeking, markers, rewind, fast forward and speed.

Show or Hide Mindstamp Video Player Controls

Short answer

Open the video, select Design, and go to the Player section. Turn on Hide All Controls to remove the control bar, or leave it off and choose each control one at a time: time, seekbar, seeking, markers, rewind, fast forward and speed.

How to do it

Open the video in the editor and select Design in the left menu.
Scroll to the Player section.
To remove the whole control bar, turn on Hide All Controls.
To keep the bar but remove some controls, leave Hide All Controls off and turn off the controls you do not want: Show Time, Show Seekbar, Show Rewind, Show Fast Forward or Show Speed.
If Show Seekbar is on, choose Allow Seeking (viewers can drag to a new time) and Show Markers (interaction points on the seekbar).
Watch the live preview on the Design page. Changes save automatically.
Open the share link in a private browser window and check the player with a mouse, a keyboard and a phone.

Player section of the Mindstamp Design page with Hide All Controls off and the switches for time, seekbar, rewind, fast forward, speed and thumbnail animation — Design > Player: hide all controls, or turn single controls on and off.

Playback section of Mindstamp video Settings with Allow resumed views and Prevent pausing highlighted — Settings > Playback: Allow resumed views lets returning viewers pick up where they left off. Prevent pausing removes the pause option.

What each control does

Hide All Controls: removes the control bar. The other player switches are hidden while it is on.
Show Time: shows the current time and the video length.
Show Seekbar: shows the progress bar.
Allow Seeking: lets viewers drag or click the seekbar to jump. Turn it off to show progress without letting viewers skip.
Show Markers: shows where interactions appear on the seekbar.
Show Rewind and Show Fast Forward: show the skip-back and skip-forward buttons.
Show Speed: lets viewers change the playback speed.
Genie Button: shows the Ask Genie button. It appears only when the video has a transcript.
Use Looping Preview: plays a short muted loop before the viewer presses play. It is not available for YouTube videos.

Where to set the default for all videos

Design works at three levels: your account, a group, and one video. To set the default for new videos, open Branding in the side menu and change the Player section there. A video follows the account (or group) design until you change a setting on that video.

To push one design to videos that already exist, use Apply to videos… at the top of the Design page. This replaces the design of the videos you select, except their thumbnails, and you cannot undo it.

Related controls in other places

Autoplay (muted), Loop and Allow fullscreen are on the Share page, under Playback.
Prevent pausing is in Settings, under Playback. It is available on Core and higher plans.
Prevent passing required interactions is in Settings, under Viewer experience. Viewers cannot seek past must-click interactions or required questions until they complete them. It is available on Core and higher plans.

Before you hide controls

If you hide all controls, viewers lose the usual way to pause, replay and see their progress. Give them another way to move forward, such as a button or a question, and test the video with a keyboard and on a touch screen.

For training, turning off Allow Seeking or using Prevent passing required interactions is usually a better choice than hiding every control.