Cinema8 makes the video producers&rsquo; lives easy and provides a huge interactive environment for the audience. In this course, you&rsquo;ll take a closer look at Cinema8 Creative Studio and find what you can do with all interactivity widgets. In these lessons, we&rsquo;ll show you how to use interactivity widgets and best practices for building an interactive video.

Essentials of Cinema8 Creative Studio — get an overview of the platform and get started on building your first interactive video, learn how to use interactive widgets

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Cinema8 101 Crash Course

Get started with Cinema8 interactive video platform. Explore our video engagement features and top tips for building interactive videos that drive performance.

Cinema8 Introduction

Learn how to add videos, audio, and images to the Cinema8's rich media library, creating a solid foundation for building interactive and engaging content.

Add Videos, Audios and Images to Cinema8 Media Library

Start a new interactive project in Cinema8, learning the basics from setup to integrating interactive features for creating engaging, dynamic content.

Create Project

Discover how to add videos and create projects using Cinema8’s web search feature, expanding your content options and enhancing your interactive video projects.

Add Videos and Creating Projects with Web Search

Learn to create immersive 360-degree video projects in Cinema8, providing viewers with unique, interactive experiences that enhance engagement and captivation.

Create 360° Project

Master video branching in Cinema8 to guide viewers through custom interactive paths, crafting an engaging and personalized experience throughout the video.

Create Storyflow

Explore examples of video branching in Cinema8 to learn best practices for designing engaging and interactive video journeys that captivate your audience.

Storyflow Example Usage

Connect streaming platforms to Cinema8 to expand reach, enhance interactivity, and deliver engaging content that keeps audiences captivated across channels.

Connect Streaming Platforms with Cinema8

Build custom forms in Cinema8 to capture viewer insights, personalize interactions, and make your interactive video experiences more engaging and relevant.

Create Form

Set up webhooks in Cinema8 to automate workflows, capture viewer data, and enhance interaction insights, streamlining your project and boosting engagement.

Create Webhook

Leverage Cinema8 Analytics to understand viewer behavior, refine interactivity, and make data-driven improvements that enhance video engagement and retention.

Video Datas and Analytics

Tailor Cinema8 Video Player to fit your brand with layout, branding, and interactive options for a polished, immersive viewer experience that stands out.

Customize Player

Intro

Simplify video design with Cinema8 Editor Panels. Manage interactive features, visual branding, and customization to create a cohesive, immersive experience.

Introduction to Editor Panels

Control project settings and manage subtitles in Cinema8 to keep videos organized, accessible, and crafted for engaging, interactive viewer experiences.

Project Settings (Managing Subtitles-Using Introduction Forms)

Adjust project and player settings in Cinema8 to enhance video playback, maximize viewer engagement, and refine interactivity for a seamless experience.

Project Settings (Project Settings-Player Settings-Using Project History)

Organize your video library in Cinema8 for easy content access, effective management, and streamlined collaboration, ensuring a smooth creation workflow.

Your Video Library

Project Basics

Add and manage images in Cinema8 projects to enrich visual content, create layered interactivity, and deliver an engaging, visually dynamic experience.

Image

Guide viewers with clickable areas in Cinema8 videos, promoting interaction and encouraging user-driven exploration for a seamless and engaging experience.

Clickable Area

Add responsive, interactive visuals with Cinema8's dynamic images, delivering a personalized experience that adapts to viewer choices and enhances engagement.

Dynamic Image

Hotspot Elements

Engage viewers with animated text in Cinema8, adding dynamic messaging that highlights the key points and boosts the interactive appeal of your videos.

Animated Text

Text & Html Elements

Include single-select questions in Cinema8 videos to engage viewers, gather insights and adapt content based on their preferences for a personalized experience.

Single Select Question

Engage  your viewers with multi-select questions in Cinema8 videos, gathering insights and offering choices to refine content and boost personalization.

Multi Select Question

Capture open-ended viewer responses in Cinema8 videos with free text questions, enabling personalized feedback and adding a unique interactive touch to videos

Free Text Question

Add fill-in-the-blank questions in Cinema8 videos to boost engagement, evaluate knowledge, and deliver a personalized, interactive experience for viewers.

Fill in the Blank Question

Capture personalized viewer responses with Cinema8’s audio and video input questions, adding interactivity to video experiences and boosting viewer engagement.

Audio/Video Input Question

Question Types

Add branded lower thirds to Cinema8 videos, offering on-screen text overlays that enhance viewer information, reinforce branding, and improve clarity.

Lower Third

Integrate videos smoothly in Cinema8 projects, from uploading to customization, creating rich, interactive content that keeps viewers engaged and entertained.

Video

Create a layered viewer experience by adding audio to Cinema8 videos, enriching interactivity and enhancing viewer immersion with dynamic sound elements.

Audio

Use Cinema8's double-click feature for publishers to control interactive videos precisely, enabling targeted and flexible engagement strategies for viewers.

Double Click for Publishers

Organize Cinema8 project items to streamlined workflows, simplify managing interactive elements and improve content accessibility for a more efficient process.

Project Item

Add countdown elements in Cinema8 videos to create urgency, manage timed interactions, and engage viewers with a compelling, time-sensitive experience.

Countdown

Use chapters in Cinema8 videos to structure your content into sections, improving navigation and providing a well-organized, viewer-friendly experience.

Chapter

Create "jump-to" points in your Cinema8 videos, enabling easy navigation, section-skipping, and giving viewers better control over interactive content.

Drawing

Capture specific viewer data by using Cinema8’s form designer, creating custom forms to gather insights and boost engagement within interactive videos.

Form Designer

Other Interaction Elements

Build Storyflow projects in Cinema8 to guide viewers on custom journeys, adding interactivity and enhancing storytelling for a more immersive experience.

Creating Storyflow Project

Create dynamic viewer paths with Storyflow branching in Cinema8, enabling videos to adapt to choices and offer unique, interactive experiences for viewers.

Storyflow Branching Videos

Storyflow

Send Cinema8 test results to LMS, integrating interactivity into any learning system to enhance tracking, improve outcomes, and boost learner engagement.

Sending test results to LMS

Transfer viewer data from Cinema8 to any LMS, enhancing e-learning with seamless tracking and personalized interactions for a more engaging learning experience.

Sending information from the video to the LMS

Use buttons in Cinema8 to send viewer data directly to LMS, improving integration, streamlining tracking, and enhancing interactive learning experiences.

Sending information to LMS via button

Send video completion info from Cinema8 to LMS for precise progress tracking, reinforcing structured learning and enhancing viewer assessment and engagement.

Sending Video completed information to LMS

Use Cinema8’s button-triggered completion info to integrate LMS tracking, ensuring streamlined reporting and supporting accurate viewer progress tracking.

Sending Video completed information to LMS via button

Capture viewer performance data in Cinema8 videos and send it to LMS, driving insights for e-learning and enhancing interactive assessments and engagement.

Sending Failed information to LMS

Use Cinema8 buttons to transfer viewer performance data to LMS, integrating interactive assessments into tracking and improving the learning experience.

Sending Failed information to LMS via button

Automatically send viewer performance data from Cinema8 videos to LMS based on test results, enriching e-learning with interactive tracking and insights.

Sending Failed information to LMS based on test results

Transfer success data from Cinema8 videos to LMS, ensuring accurate tracking and enhancing interactivity in personalized learning paths for better engagement.