Vidpik

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Vidpik is a Figma plugin that enables designers to add videos to their designs in bulk. Currently, as of Nov. 5, 2022, there is no search to video insertion tools available within the Figma community.

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This project is in development at the moment.

Search and video results

After Figma released their add video to prototypes feature (Oct. 11, 2022) I realized that I needed to insert videos as fills into frames/shapes etc. in bulk. In order to accomplish this, I needed to understand the constraints of consuming video within the tool (Figma > 🌐). This ultimately led me to create the idea for Vidpik as a Figma plugin.

Criteria:

Compressed
Cannot exceed 30MB in size
Commercial and royalty-free
Easily searchable

Filtering

Luckily there were API’s from video providers like Coverr that allowed me to integrate their commercial and royalty-free b-roll videos into my project! Functionalities like search, search by categories, and relevance filtering were handled by the API. Functionalities to filter videos by the viewport are challenging and am working with a developer to implement this feature. Since a majority of short-form video content consumption is on mobile devices I’d like to have this as an option.

Figma prototype

This plugin is in development and will be sharing it with the Figma community when it is done 🙂