There was a famous study by Google in 2009 that showed that even teeny tiny changes to the speed of web apps (as small as 100ms) had a measurable impact on users’ satisfaction with those apps. Keeping web apps fast while dealing with production-quality video has always been incredibly tricky due to the enormous file sizes involved, and it’s a challenge the industry continues to tackle head-on.

With this in mind, this month we deployed a slew of speed optimizations that will make your Imaginario AI experience faster than ever – in some of our testing we’ve reduced load times by over 50%! Specifically, we’ve:

• Re-worked some of our backend services to use autoscaling more aggressively, so you won’t notice any speed reduction when we’re seeing periods of high demand.
• Implemented some new adaptive bitrate video streaming tech that means your search results will load faster than ever.

But that’s not all! We also added two new much-requested Clip Studio features.

New resizing UI

We added manual clip resizing back in April, and this month we launched the updated, better-than-ever version 2. Now, instead of dragging handles to resize you frame, you can adjust zoom levels in the UI, keeping your view of the clip full height, letting you get that pixel-perfect framing.

Branding and watermarks

For those customers with strict video guidelines, you can finally tell your brand team to relax. You can now upload your logo and place it wherever you want in your clip.

You can see a demo of both of these new features in the video below.