First Look at the Media Player
I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and knock out a video showing off the new Media Player for Greenhouse 2.0. The first video is showing what your users will experience when using your media player. The second video shows what it’s like to customize and edit your player in the Greenhouse.
In the middle of recording these I was totally struck with how much bigger and feature-rich this player actually is. It’s amazing being able to dream about what this thing could be, and then actually pulling it off. To get the full grasp of this new feature you’ll have to play with it yourself (April 28th), but hopefully these videos suffice for now.
Media Player (Front-end):
Editing your Media Player:
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Is it normal to weep with joy after watching one of these videos?
By the way… is it bad that I just may be more excited about the launch of Greenhouse 2.0 than my son’s 2nd birthday (Both happen on April 28th)?
Rob- It’s perfectly normal.
Here’s your solution. Tell your son that for his birthday he get’s to see daddy happy…
I am SO STOKED about this! You guys ROCK!
Wow, really impressed guys. Great job. Can’t wait for April 28th!
Nice job guys!! The new media player looks great. I love the tweakability and simplicity. I’m looking fwd to 04.28.10.
PS: Rob, stick a big #2 on your sons cake. To everybody else, it’s about him turning two. To you, it’s greenhouse turning 2.0. This is a perfect win-win situation
Very cool! I’ve been talkin’ you up, and like I knew you would, looks like you’ve created a beautiful tool for us to advance The Message! Well played, Sir…well played.
You guys are geniuses…that is all!
I didn’t see anywhere in the media player settings how the podcasting would work, iTunes thumbnail, etc.
WHEW! Awesome for sure! Thanks so much for you work! Can’t wait to leverage this to the fullest potential!
Been recommending you guys like crazy and with the beauty of this media I player I think any church looking to get or upgrade their web presence would be insane not to go with Clover!
…yes please
On a scale of 1 to 10 this thing is AWESOME!
This could not be cooler. Is it bad i want to talk our elders into purchasing a high def camera just so we can make full use of the video media player?
I totally can’t wait until April 28th. I just view Greenhouse 2.0 as a reward for all of those ministers and church workers for making it through Easter.
Simply amazing guys. This is worth the wait. Glad we went with you guys last year!
Hi thanks for thinking of people who speaks other languages like us here in South-Africa! This new player looks awesome!
Dude, you guys rock. I can’t wait for when we can start using this.
Is this available on the mobile version of the site?
@Clay Yes, many of the new features (control of colors, name of launch button, and ability to play video) will be on the mobile version! We’re not sure yet if we’ll add the ability to see all your custom columns, but anything we don’t have for the Greenhouse 2.0 launch, we’ll always improve later.
I can’t help but feeling that with a release this incredible, this big… well that there should be some sort of release party/ cupertino-ish release event… some internet gathering of Clover-ites to celebrate!!!
I am weeping right along with Rob. People at Starbucks are staring at me.
Go CLOVER.
BTW, just in case you need someone to beta the new Greenhouse, I would humbly offer my services. I would even allow you to call me a guinea pig.
what’s so funny is when we bought our cloversite 7-8 months ago, greenhouse looked state of the art to me, and now with all the stuff you’re showing us from greenhouse 2.0, what i have now looks kind of old. not bashing the current version, just saying you guys have made tremendous progress and it’s going to be AMAZING!!!
Is this only for video? What if we only have AUDIO TRACKS. When we get video we’ll still want to offer AUDIO mp3s and audio streaming i think???
@Jeremy Absolutely! You will be able to throw all your media content into one media player including your audio tracks. Consider the media player to be a hub for all your content and every function that we explained here will work the same for your audio tracks as well.
First of all, stoked to see this. This is exactly what we are looking for without having to hire an IT person to get it. Questions: 1. Why do you have to click “Messages” and then click “Launch Media Player” to get to the sermon page? Why can you just click on Message to pull up the media player sermon page? Also, we do a lot of promotional videos that currently is a seperate page on our website. Will we be able to have a page/media player for sermons and then seperate page for promotional video material?
@PotentialClient Those are some great questions that I am happy to answer. The reason why we created a launch media button is so that users can still place content on their “Messages” page such a pictures, text and links to supplement the media experience.
Secondly, you can create multiple media players to store different categories of video or audio, however with the sorting capabilities that the GH 2.0 media player will have you could potentially stick with just one media player for all your content.
I am really excited about the new media player. Under 1.0 we link to vimeo. I like vimeo but a drawback is we are limited to 1.0 GB upload which results in our breaking the sermon into 2 parts.