VideoPress, Take 3
We promised you “more is coming” in our latest update—and now more is here. More features that make the finest video service for WordPress even more powerful. You can upload more content with less effort, reach more audiences, and keep sharing more of what inspires you. In this video, we’ll show you what’s new in VideoPress.
Let’s dive deeper into five of the new features that make VideoPress more powerful than ever:
- Higher Resolution Videos up to 4K – Watch crisp images on any display and screen size. We’ve added support for displaying your videos in 1440p and 4K formats.
- Adaptive Streaming – Videos now play back much faster by automatically adjusting video quality based on bandwidth and display size. The viewer can still choose the quality they’d like in the menu.
- Progress Bar Color Match – The VideoPress seekbar now adapts its color to match the scenes in your videos. This makes your content really pop.
- Resumable Video Uploads – You no longer have to restart your uploads if they get cut off for some reason. Simply drag your video into the editor, and the resumable uploader will take it from there, even if a network error occurs.
- Subtitles, Captions, and Chapters Support – Simply upload your text tracks via the VideoPress block and they will be available on the video as soon as you publish your post.
The most exciting times for video are yet to come. We are committed to keep evolving VideoPress so that you can keep delivering high-quality content, flawlessly and ad-free, to millions of users around the globe.
VideoPress is included in our WordPress Pro Plan on WordPress.com. And if you have a self-hosted site, you can get VideoPress through Jetpack as a standalone product.
- April 20, 2022
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And what’s up with the email notifications? The new format is pretty creepy…
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How fun! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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I particularly like the ‘resumable upload’ feature. Nothing worse or more frustrating than having to start over again. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Nice
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I can leave a comment that no one will read, let alone care about. Why would I pay for no support ?
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Hi! You can reach out here if you need help: https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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While I think VideoPress and the new features are fantastic, I could also imagine that Videographers (and Photographers, Podcasters and Musicians) looking to host on WordPress.com might be deterred by the current 50GB storage allowance with the Pro plan, let alone the new free plan with 1GB storage. We really do need information soonest about those a la carte storage upgrades y’all been talking about. Thanks.
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Thanks for the feedback on storage! You can store many hours of 4K video without coming close to reaching the storage limit. I recommend encoding videos using the H.265 codec to save space and still have excellent quality!
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Hey Dan, I see that the VideoPress support guide mentions that “VideoPress converts your uploaded video file into the MP4 format. Our MP4 files are encoded with H.264 video and AAC audio lossy compression codecs.” So do customers need to manually encode with H.265 before uploading? TIA
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Yes, converting before would be ideal to save space but it is not required. Note that the MP4 files that we create do not count towards the storage space used 👍
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Nice one keep it up
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Thank you Sir
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Nice
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Good to see the link if anytime I need help. Thanks!
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Good
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Been noticing some updates real time
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Any change to the maximum 1GB file size upload? If not, then these higher resolution features just translate to shorter video clips.
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Can someone clarify the maximum video file size upload please? Is it 2GB for the legacy Business accounts? And what for the new Pro accounts? https://wp.me/pf2B5-bLy
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It’s 6GB for all sites except plugin-enabled sites, but you can upload larger files using SFTP on those. Details: https://wordpress.com/support/videopress/
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Great work
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Awesome. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.
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That’s nice thanks
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Beautiful Great Job
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wow really nice post
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Hi please I will like to get a custom domain how do I do that
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Hey! This article should help you: https://wordpress.com/support/domains/register-domain/.
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