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How to Set Up a Smart Vid

Initial steps to set up your first Interactive Smart Vid.

Emily Giunta avatar
Written by Emily Giunta
Updated over 4 months ago

Welcome to Interactive Smart Vids! 🚀

In this article, we'll cover how to create your Smart Vid, and how to add choices depending on the flow you create.

The canvas of the Smart Vid flow builder will help you see and understand the flow of your Smart Vid.

Here you can see all the video steps added to a Smart Vid and the connections between them.

You can zoom in and out or drag the canvas to navigate around your flow.

The "Play" icon indicates the beginning of your flow.

You will have the ability to open settings, review and delete steps directly from the canvas (see below):

Initial Setup Settings 🚀

  1. Navigate to apps.vidalytics.com/dashboard

  2. Click the Smart Vids button on the left hand menu

  3. Click "New Smart Vid"

  4. A pop-up will appear. Type in your Smart Vid title and pick a video that will serve as a start point for your flow

Interactive Global Settings 🌎

You can access the global settings directly from the canvas, or while editing any of the items in your flow.

  1. The cog icon is located at the top right side of the screen

  2. From here, you can edit all the overall settings of the Smart Vid, which will apply to all videos that form it. Those features are:

    1. Video Startup Quality

    2. Thumbnails

    3. Controls

    4. Smart Autoplay

    5. Smart Pause

    6. Video Expiration

  3. Make all the changes you need in here and close the sidebar

  4. Don't forget to publish changes to apply them to your live videos!

Add Interactions in Step Settings 🔀

Interactions are the core aspect of our new Smart Vids flow builder! They drive the interactive video flow. This will help you define actions that viewers can perform on each video step, and the direction the will be taken to based on the questions you ask.

To set up your interactions, you'll need to go to the Step Settings menu. Do so by hovering over your video step's card, and clicking on the edit icon.

To add a question, click the question button on the Interactive tab

In the Question settings panel, you will be able to configure:

  • Question text|: this is the actual question or prompt that you'd like to give your viewers

  • Answer choices: up to four choices for your viewers to select one and be sent into a next step

  • Display time: when you'd like the options to be presented to your viewer

  • Countdown timer: in case you'd like to limit the time your viewers will have to select a specific option

  • Theme settings such as colors and styles for your questions

Preview Changes 👁️

Previewing changes is available in three places:

  1. In the canvas, hover over any step in your flow, and click on the "preview from this step" button

  2. On a Preview page. To access the Preview page, open any of your steps in the flow and click the play button at the top right side of the screen

  3. Whole Smart Vid: Open the main flow canvas and click on the play icon at the top right side

Don't forget to always publish your changes! It might take some time to see them reflected.

If you encounter any issues or need assistance with the redesigned app, please contact our support team at [email protected].

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