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Move through the video

Jump to any time in a video.

Send viewers to any timecode from a button, hotspot, or answer — forward to skip, back to review.

Works on the video you already have. No re-encoding.

Change time shown in the Mindstamp editor

What it does

Non-linear playback, without a new file

The same recording can be short for someone who knows it and thorough for someone who does not.

Skip what they know

Let an experienced viewer jump the setup instead of losing them to it.

Replay what they missed

Send a wrong answer back to the exact explanation rather than to the start.

Builds menus and chapters

A set of time jumps is how a table of contents inside a video is made.

In practice

What time jumps build

Menus, review loops, and skip-ahead paths.

  • In-video menus on long-form content
  • Remediation loops in training modules
  • Skip-the-intro paths for returning viewers
Screenshot needed — change time being configured in the editor

In depth

Common implementations

Jump your viewer to another section of your video with no disruption to their viewing experience.

While chapters offer a seamless interaction to let viewers find the content they want, Mindstamp’s change time capability provides a more robust interactive design to trigger video navigation based on questions your viewers answer, buttons they have pressed, images they have clicked on, and many more.

By adding various buttons or images, you can create an interactive table of contents that requires your viewer to make a decision on how to proceed through their interactive experience. Or create a choose your own adventure interactive experience that is fun and exciting for your audience. By pausing your video until one of the interactions is clicked, you can ensure your viewers are selecting the content they want to see.

Through the use of hotspots, you can direct your viewers to a portion of the video that provides additional information or content that may be worthwhile for your audience. Adding hotspots on top of elements natively in the video allows the viewer to choose what they want to see next.

When posing a question for your audience, you can ensure comprehension through Mindstamp’s change time capability. By tracking correctness, you can change the time for your viewer based on their responses. For example, if a viewer answers a question incorrectly, you can take them to the point in the video where you explain the concepts in detail. If they answered correctly, you can take them to the next topic in the video.

Using Mindstamp’s navigation capability, you can dynamically move your viewer to a different portion of the video. Couple this with variables and conditional logic, and you have a custom tailored experience that will keep your audience engaged longer.

What gets measured

Every use of it is reported

Reported per viewer
Every use of this interaction is recorded against the person, not the play.
Placed to the second
Attached to the timecode it sits on, so results map to the moment that produced them.
On video you already have
Layered on the existing file — the original is never re-encoded or replaced.

Questions

What teams ask about change time

Can a jump be automatic?

Yes — conditional logic can move the viewer without them clicking anything.

Does jumping break the report?

No. The path each viewer took is exactly what gets recorded.

Try it on one video

Add a skip-ahead to one video

Let the people who already know the first two minutes past them.