ESTAGE Video player
Host your videos on ESTAGE and play them on your Genesis site with the ESTAGE Video player — your own video hosting, no YouTube branding or recommendations. The videos come from your ESTAGE Video library.
How to trigger it
Section titled “How to trigger it”- “add an ESTAGE video player”, “put my product demo video under the hero”, “add a background video to the top of the home page”
- The Estage Video entry in the
/slash menu - From Media → Videos in the builder: a video’s Add to page or Use as background video
The AI can see your library. When you name a video, it finds it by title; when several could fit, it shows your library in the chat so you can pick one.
Connecting a video
Section titled “Connecting a video”If the player lands on your page without a video yet:
- Click the player in the preview. The Estage Video panel opens on the right.
- Click Choose a video. The picker shows your library with folders and Search videos by title, and takes uploads too.
- Click a video — it’s wired to the player on the spot. No copying IDs.
The player panel
Section titled “The player panel”With a video connected, the panel shows its thumbnail, title and length, and:
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Processing state | Processing N%. It plays when ready. while the video is still being processed |
| Captions and settings | Opens the video’s settings in ESTAGE Video — captions, chapters, thumbnail, player look |
| Preview | Opens the video on the ESTAGE player |
| Autoplay | Starts the video on load, muted |
| Loop | Plays it again when it ends |
| Hide player controls | Shows the video without the control bar |
| Replace video | Opens the picker to swap in another video |
If the video is private, the panel says visitors will see a “Private video” notice instead, and Make it public fixes it in one click.
Uploading from Genesis
Section titled “Uploading from Genesis”- Media → Videos — click Upload a video or drop files onto the tab. Up to 8 GB each.
- Chat — drag a video file into the chat box or attach it with +. It uploads into your library, and the AI can place exactly that video.
Uploads go into the same library as ESTAGE Video, and a video can be placed before it finishes processing — it plays once ready.
What visitors see
Section titled “What visitors see”The ESTAGE player with your settings from the video’s page: your logo and colors, the controls you left on, captions, chapters, on-video buttons and the end screen. Quality adapts to each visitor’s connection. No account is needed to watch a public video.
- As many players per page as you like — each is configured independently.
- Settings live on the video, not the page. Captions, thumbnail, logo and privacy are set in ESTAGE Video and apply everywhere the video plays. Only Autoplay, Loop and Hide player controls are per player.
- The AI never deletes videos. Deleting a video removes it from every page that shows it; do it yourself in Media → Videos or in ESTAGE Video.
- For a grid or playlist of several videos, see Video galleries.