TRYING OUT SOMETHING NEW - WATCH DESIGN

I made a video player whose timeline listens to the film. 🎧

VESPER is my Video.js v10 skin: one pane of glass, and a seek bar drawn from the recording's own sound. Quiet scenes rest flat, dialogue breathes, and the loud moments rise. No fake equaliser bars — that's Pulse, built from the real audio energy of every film.

Everything else waits inside the same glass and opens only when you ask:

→ Jog: hold Play and turn. The farther you turn, the finer it seeks, with the real frame under your finger. → Explore: search a word in the transcript and land on that exact line. Scenes and private Moments live here too. → Repeat: loop one sentence, or any A–B range. → Sound: tap for volume, hold for a five-band glass EQ with four presets. → Dock: hold the grip and move the whole panel to any edge. Pin it and it stays.

It's built to work for everyone: full keyboard control with visible focus, 44 px touch targets, captions you can size and place, higher contrast and calm motion when your device asks for it.

The Sintel film is streamed by Mux, and four more demos (a NASA lesson, a scripted meeting, a product concept and an Icelandic waterfall) show the same controls on very different content.

Try it: https://vesper-player.pages.dev

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A seek bar drawn from the film's own sound is a brilliant idea. Quiet scenes flat, loud moments rising, so good.