Product Updates

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Lumina Video Platform will be rolling out several new updates, including a brand new Video Editor, a deeper integration with YuJa Panorama, additional languages for auto-captioning, and several UI enhancements.

1. An Upgraded Video Editor for Smoother, Easier Editing and All Your Video Accessibility Needs

   YuJa Lumina’s Video Editor has received a major upgrade with a brand-new design that incorporates improved video editing and video accessibility workflows, all in one consolidated and intuitive interface. Key features include:

   • Simple editing mode: Users can access basic video and audio editing tools to split, trim, annotate, add, and remove clips, allowing them to make quick and easy edits for day-to-day editing needs. Users can also edit captions for their videos.

     

   • Advanced editing mode: On top of all the features available in Simple mode, users can use the Video Editor’s extended list of features in Advanced mode, including adding text overlays, watermarks, backgrounds, slideshows, and blurs to their video. They can also leverage advanced AI-engines to automatically generate chapters/indexes while still maintaining full control over manual edits.

     

   • Automatic transcript updates: When the video is exported, users have the option to automatically update the video transcript with their new chapters.

     

   • Version history: Users can easily revert their actions and return to previous versions of their project, ensuring that each action is properly saved for potential restoration.

     

2. Reach Compliance Faster at No Cost with YuJa Panorama’s Document Remediation in Your Media Library

   Administrators can now enable YuJa Panorama’s Accessibility Report for up to 10 documents uploaded in their YuJa Lumina Media Library for free, helping them reach the accessibility compliance initiatives of their institution, regardless of whether it is video-based or document-based content. For institutions that have YuJa Panorama, usage will be tied to their credit limit in YuJa Panorama, and they will also be able to leverage automation to fulfill and enhance their remediation workflows using YuJa AutoPilot and YuJa Structural Remediation.

   

3. Support More Audiences with New Hawaiian Caption Generation for Your Videos

   YuJa Lumina can now generate video captions in Hawaiian, helping users from diverse backgrounds better understand their video-based content while meeting accessibility needs.

   

4. Enhanced Gradebook Sharing Enables Access to Video Quiz Results for Both Unenrolled and Enrolled Students

   With YuJa Lumina’s new and improved gradebook structure, users can now easily access the results of video quizzes that are shared with them from courses that they are not enrolled in, saving instructors time and effort from needing to manually add users to those courses.

   

5. Upgraded Notifications Panel Helps You Keep Up with All Your Upcoming Events

   Notifications in YuJa Lumina have been organized into a neater, more modernized layout. With embedded redirect links, you can check out your upcoming video quizzes, course enrollments, and live streams right away from the notifications panel.

   

6. Enhanced Menu Designs Provide a More Consistent User Experience

   Multiple menu interfaces throughout YuJa Lumina have been upgraded to a sleek, modern design, including:

   • Media Library secondary menu bar: The secondary menu bar in the Media Library has been upgraded with a set of new icons, helping users navigate their library, upload new content, and conduct bulk actions with ease.

     

   • My Account menu: The My Account menu design has been modernized with a new look, introducing a more streamlined design for users accessing their configurations.

     

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Lumina Video Platform will be adding features such as direct caption editing in the Video Player, a redesigned integrations menu, the ability to toggle auto-scrolling when editing EAD, and additional enhancements to the Video Player that improve user workflows for faculty and students alike.

1. Effortlessly Edit Captions Directly from the Video Player Sidebar

   Content creators will now be able to edit captions directly from the Video Player sidebar, enhancing the caption-editing workflow and providing more options for how they edit their captions. This optimized workflow removes the need to open the Lumina Video Editor, while still allowing captions to be edited inline.

   

2. Viewers Can Now Propose Corrections for Captions

   While watching videos, viewers can now use the Video Player sidebar to suggest clarifying corrections for captions. By using the Suggest Correction feature, a viewer can propose a fix for typos or timing errors in closed captions, which will then be relayed to the video owner to review and accept, allowing the wider community of viewers to help institutions ensure their content is high quality and error-free.

   

3. Delete, Share, Edit, and Publish Directly From the Video Player Page

   The Video Player’s description box has been updated with new buttons that allow users to move content to the recycling bin, share resources, publish videos to channels, launch the video editor, and view media details, all from directly within the page. By providing users with a shortcut to these functions, the need to navigate multiple pages to perform key actions has been reduced, introducing a more seamless workflow that enables quicker video management.

   

4. Redesigned Video Settings Menu for Faster Playback Customization

   The Video Player’s Settings menu has been refreshed with a sleeker and more organized array of functions. In the new Settings menu, users will find menu items sorted into logical sections for easier navigation, relocated functions like Show Transcript, and new functions such as the Set Current Frame as Thumbnail tool. Users will be able to configure video settings to customize their playback experience more quickly than ever.

   

5. Provide Viewers with Key Information Before They Press Play

   Viewers will now be able to view key media information, such as titles and descriptions, directly atop the Video Player before they hit play. Providing viewers with key contextual information before they begin a video helps transform playback into a more meaningful learning experience as it helps establish relevance and aids comprehension. Additionally, when viewers hover over the Video Player during playback, the video title now also appears to create a consistent viewing experience.

   

6. Streamlined Integration Management with the Redesigned Integrations Page

   The Admin Panel’s Integrations page has been updated with a more intuitive layout that simplifies the user flow. When opening the Integrations page, admins will now see all their active integrations first, making it easier to get to the integrations that matter most. Admins will also be able to filter integrations by LMS, Video Conferencing, Captioning, SSO, and Other Integrations, reducing the need to sort and scroll through information.

   

7. Set a New Video Thumbnail Directly from the Video Player

   Content creators can now scrub through videos in the Video Player and set their current video frame as the video thumbnail by using the Set Current Frame as Thumbnail tool in the settings panel. By offering multiple workflows for setting thumbnails, content creators have more flexibility in how and when they select their videos’ thumbnails, creating a more seamless video management experience.

   

8. Toggle Auto-Scrolling When Playing Videos in the Enhanced Audio Description Editor for a Synchronized Experience

   Users will now be able to toggle auto-scrolling when playing videos in the Enhanced Audio Description Editor. For a synchronized experience while editing, users can enable auto-scrolling to ensure that the timeline editor for the enhanced audio description moves in time with the video.

   

9. Making the Synchronized Multi-Stream Livestream Playback Experience More Seamless

   The Synchronized Multi-Stream Livestream Playback beta feature will introduce new improvements to create a more seamless experience when switching view modes. When switching between view modes, the previous video layout will continue playing in the background while the new layout loads, to ensure that viewers don’t miss moments of their livestream. The live chat window has also been relocated when viewing a livestream in gallery mode to optimize the visual layout of multiple video streams.

   

10. Manage GenAI PowerPack Usage on a Sub-Organization Level

    Institutions can now enable GenAI PowerPack access on a Sub-Organization level. With this new permission scope, institutions will have more flexibility in how they grant access to GenAI tools across roles, users, and sub-organizations.

    

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Lumina Video Platform will be adding features such as a Video Compliance Report, improved auto-caption accuracy, manual video chapter creation, and much more.

1. Stay Ahead of Accessibility Risk with New Video Compliance Reporting

   Admins can now access a comprehensive Video Compliance Report that consolidates key accessibility elements – including captions (and their quality scores), audio descriptions, and chapters – along with quality indicators to deliver a clear, audit-ready view of overall video compliance. With configurable institutional scopes, instant compliance summaries, and built-in remediation workflows, this feature transforms Lumina into a centralized hub for managing and improving video accessibility at scale.

   

   Key features include:

   • Tracking accessibility concerns by department: Filter your report by date, institution, collection, channel, Enterprise VideoTube, folder, and subfolder to ensure only the most relevant information is included in your report.

     

   • Accessibility scorecards: Gain instant insight into the status of captions, audio descriptions, chapters, and total videos analyzed for your defined scope.

     

   • Actions for remediation: View videos based on their captions, audio description, or chapters status. Use the Actions menu to see possible remediation actions for a specific video, or use Bulk Actions to perform remediation activities across multiple videos. Remediation actions can be performed manually, requested, or generated using GenAI PowerPack credits.

     

2. Improved Auto-Captioning Accuracy Through Upgraded AI Models

   We have enhanced the underlying AI models powering the Media Player’s auto-captioning engine to deliver significantly improved caption accuracy. These model upgrades produce more reliable and context-aware captions that more faithfully reflect spoken content, reducing the need for manual edits and streamlining the captioning workflow for content creators while strengthening accessibility compliance across video content.

   

3. Enhanced Audio Description (EAD) Playback Controls

   Users can now seamlessly toggle Enhanced Audio Description (EAD) directly within the media player using a keyboard shortcut or toolbar control, enabling a smoother and more intuitive playback experience. With the added ability to pause EAD independently to maintain synchronization with video content, this update enhances accessibility for viewers with visual or cognitive disabilities.

   

4. Turn Multi-Stream Livestreams Into A Single Synchronized Video That Offers Custom View Layouts

   Users can change the playback experience for multi-stream livestreams by using a beta feature that combines multiple livestream video sources into one synchronized media asset with customizable layout options. By stitching multi-stream livestreams together into one video, issues with synchronization will be eliminated, and content will be downloaded as one cohesive video. This beta feature is off by default and can be enabled by going to Platform Settings within the Admin Panel.

   End users will be able to select the following layout options for the video streams:

   • Gallery

     

   • Presenter

     

   • Single stream

     

   • Picture-in-Picture

     

5. Ability to Manually Add Video Chapters to Improve Video Usability and Accessibility

   The YuJa Video Editor now includes a new Chapters tab that enables users to manually add and manage chapters within videos. This enhancement allows long-form content to be broken into clear, navigable segments, improving both usability and searchability while also supporting stronger accessibility compliance across video content.

   

6. Improved Performance for Browser Capture Recording When Multitasking

   Browser Capture has been optimized to ensure it operates without performance issues when multiple activities are being performed on a device. These system improvements increase the reliability and usability of Browser Capture by reducing the platform’s CPU usage, creating an overall smoother experience when recording.

7. Faster Video Processing with Instant Thumbnails and Background Playback

   Video uploads to the Lumina Media Library now generate thumbnails instantly, while enabling users to play the raw video file in the background during processing. These improvements streamline media handling by allowing immediate interaction with uploaded content, creating a faster, more seamless, and more productive upload workflow.

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Lumina Video Platform will be releasing various streamlined workflows for setting up RTMP live streams, customizing interface layouts, editing elements of your videos, such as captions and thumbnails, and much more. With these improvements, users will have more control over their media library and live streaming options.

1. Personalize Your Interface With Custom Layouts in Enhanced Enterprise VideoTube

   Admins can now modify the appearance of their Enterprise VideoTube Platform to tailor to specific needs, themes, and preferences. Using the dynamic live preview, you can try out new page designs before applying the customization to your page.

   

   The following customizations are available:

   • Layout Style: Choose the general layout of content sections on your VideoTube. Available styles include: default, split, and blocks. You can also choose from preset or custom colors for buttons and text.

     

   • Sidebar Navigation Items: Choose tabs to include or exclude from your side navigation bar. You can also create a custom new tab.

     

   • Hero Video Banner: Choose the visual style of the video banner and the number of videos to display in the carousel.

     

   • Content Collections: Choose the content collections to display on your VideoTube page. You can also add a new collection.

     

2. New RTMP Stream Workflow Simplifies Streaming Experience

   The look and workflow of the RTMP live stream experience has been refreshed to introduce a more intuitive user experience. Key features include:

   • Default RTMP Stream Session: A default RTMP stream session is now automatically added in YuJa Lumina when an institution has no existing streams, allowing instructors to start a session directly without needing to create a new stream.

     

   • Automatically Created Sessions: A session is automatically generated when a new stream is created, allowing instructors to immediately start broadcasting.

     

   • 24/7 Sessions: Recording is automatically disabled for 24/7 sessions to minimize the risk of overloading storage. The save and publish location is also hidden when recording is disabled.

     

3. Streamlined Experience for Managing Video Thumbnails

   When a new thumbnail is uploaded to a video in YuJa Lumina, it is now automatically saved to the list of thumbnails and is chosen as the current thumbnail for the video by default. This enhanced workflow allows users to update the look of their videos in a simple and efficient process.

   

4. Designing Accessible Captions Now Faster With New Modal

   The Caption Bar Modal has been redesigned to introduce more font and color customization options for video captions. Users can use the built-in color picker, font settings sliders, and the caption preview to ensure that their captions are clearly visible and readable in their video.

   

5. Record Every Detail With 4K Browser Capture

   YuJa Lumina Browser Capture now offers recording up to 4K with a supported camera stream. With four times the resolution of 1080p, 4K offers Ultra High Definition (UHD) image clarity to viewers and provides more flexibility during video editing without sacrificing the quality of video clips.

   

6. Keep Up With Live Streams Using Notifications

   Class members are now notified via email and via a message in their Notifications Tab whenever a live stream has started, helping them keep track of scheduled streams and attending them on time.

   

7. Regulate Student Submissions With Specific Quiz Closing Times

   Instructors can now choose to set specific times for quizzes to close in YuJa Lumina, further mimicking a real-life classroom schedule and encouraging students to complete their assessments within a designated time frame.

   

8. New Audit Logs for Live Streams Provide Additional Transparency

   Audit logs have been added to a live stream session, documenting comprehensive details on stream sessions that provide essential information to instructors. The following logs are now available:

   • Stream session started successfully/unsuccessfully

   • Stream session waiting for video input

   • Stream session in progress

   • Stream session ended successfully

   • Stream session video uploaded

   

Over the next few weeks, the YuJa Lumina Video Platform will be adding new features that allow users to review side-by-side captions for easier translation review, view folder-level activity logging for greater transparency, view video playback after quizzes are submitted, and more.

1. Side-by-Side Caption Comparison for Easier Translation Review in the YuJa Video Editor

   The YuJa Video Editor now supports side-by-side caption comparison, making it easier to review, validate, and refine translated captions. When a video includes multiple caption languages, users can select a primary language to edit and a secondary language to view alongside it, allowing for quick comparison without switching views. This enhanced workflow simplifies translation verification, reduces friction when working across languages, and improves overall efficiency when managing multilingual captions.

   

2. Get Help Faster with Integrated Live Chat and Support Options

   The support experience has been redesigned to make getting help faster and more intuitive. Live Chat is now fully integrated, opening instantly from the Support modal for real-time assistance without navigating away from the platform. By centralizing all support options in one modal, instructors and admins can quickly find the help they need and resolve issues more efficiently.

   

3. Folder-Level Activity Logging for Greater Transparency

   Folder-level activity logging is now available, giving admins clear visibility into changes such as permission updates, user or group access changes, folder renaming, and folder moves. Each action is recorded with the timestamp, the user who made the change, the affected folder, and before-and-after details where applicable, making it easier to diagnose access issues and maintain auditability across shared and departmental folders.

   

4. Ensure Videos Remain a Learning Resource After Quizzes Are Submitted

   Instructors can now allow students to watch the underlying video after completing all allowed quiz attempts, without waiting for a quiz’s close date. Once students submit the quiz, they can continue accessing the video content without reopening the quiz, creating new attempts, or affecting grades. This improves learner access to instructional content while preserving assessment integrity.

5. Refreshed Email Experience with Dark Mode Support

   All Lumina emails have been refreshed with an updated look, including Dark Mode support for iOS and Android, making messages easier to read and visually consistent across the platform. This update ensures that all communications are clear, polished, and accessible for users utilizing Dark Mode.