Privacy and sharing a video

Every video has a player link — the address of the video on the ESTAGE player. You send it, embed it, or let Genesis place it on a page. The video’s Security setting decides who can actually watch through that link.

Set it on the video’s page: open the video, then Player Settings → Security → Visibility, and click Save changes.

Visibility options

Visibility	Who can watch
Public	Anyone with the link, on any site. New videos start here
Private	No one — the player shows Private Video instead of the video
Specific Domains	Only when the player is embedded on a site you list under Allowed Domains
Password	Anyone who enters the password you set
Private Link	Anyone with a separate, hard-to-guess link that ESTAGE generates

Specific Domains

1. Choose Specific Domains.
2. Under Allowed Domains, type a domain (for example example.com) and click Add. Add as many as you need.
3. Click Save changes.

On a site that isn’t on the list, the player shows To play your video here, change its privacy settings so it can be embedded on: followed by that site’s domain. Opened directly in a browser tab, the video shows Private Video.

Note

The domain must match exactly what’s in the browser’s address bar. www.example.com and example.com count as different domains — add both if your site answers on both.

Password

Choose Password, type the password and save. Viewers see an Enter Password box and a Watch button; a wrong password shows Password is incorrect.

Private Link

Choose Private Link. ESTAGE generates a Private Video Link right away; copy it with the button next to it. Shared in a chat app, this link doesn’t show the video’s title or thumbnail in the preview.

Sharing the player link

Copy the link from the video card’s ⋯ → Copy Player Link, or from General → Video Link on the video’s page. A public link shared in social and chat apps shows the title and thumbnail, and can play inline where the app supports it.

You can add options to the end of the link:

Add to the link	Effect
?autoplay=true	Starts playing on load, muted (browsers only allow muted autoplay)
?loop=true	Plays again from the start when it ends
?start_at=90	Starts at that many seconds in

Combine them with &, for example ?autoplay=true&loop=true.

Embedding a video

• On a Genesis site, use the ESTAGE Video player element — you pick the video from your library, no link needed.
• Anywhere else, put the player link in an iframe or in the site’s video-embed field. The player fills the frame and keeps the video’s shape.

Things worth knowing

• Visibility applies everywhere. A private video shows Private Video on every site, lesson and post that plays it. Genesis warns you when a video on your page is private.
• Who can change it: you, members of your team workspace, and people you’ve shared the folder with as Editor. See Teams and shared folders.
• Sharing a folder is different from sharing a link. Folder sharing lets other ESTAGE users open your library to browse, watch or edit; the player link only lets someone watch one video.