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Brightcove UI updates (Prism and previous version)

  • June 1, 2026
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I’ve been a Brightcove customer for many years, and have been using the ‘old’ UI for quite some time.  When Brightcove invited me to review their new UI a few years back, I shared my perspective as a power user for managing large volumes of content, making bulk changes and setting default views that required multiple columns and filters.  Nonetheless, they rolled out their ‘streamlined’ UI.  We promptly requested to roll back to the previous UI because it seriously reduced our effectiveness for managing content.

Flash forward to the past month or so and we’ve now been presented with “Prism”, a newer version of the UI.  With this rollout, the 2 version back UI we were using no longer works.  Now we are using the ‘previous’ UI (which doesn’t meet our needs), flipping between it and “Prism”, which seems to be even less functional.

I’m sure there are some benefits for some users with this new direction, but are there any power users out here that can successfully navigate and effectively manage your content within either of these new UI changes?

Examples
We have dozens of custom fields for metadata.  I need to see at least three of these, plus Title, video ID, reference ID, created date, updated date, start date, end date with all items showing their complete values (not truncated or hidden) and selectable (double-click or click/drag). Considering we’re working across multiple browser windows, even with dual monitors, it’s a challenge to get a view that shows some of this information in the new UI without making the browser full-screen.  Even then, the UI seems to prevent the ability to expand the interface to see all columns.  And don’t get me started on the video / playlist tab that can’t remember I closed it with each refresh of the page

We frequently use Quick Edit for minor changes to individual or groups of assets.  It’s a bit clunky to get to quick edit and even less friendly using it in the smaller spaces provided. In Prism, it becomes a smaller modal/pop-up window with less usable space (horizontally and vertically)

Perhaps the community of power users here have figured out a workaround to make the UI functional again? Or you’ve found other ways to manage your content - perhaps outside of the Media library/Video Cloud Studio?