Podcast Producer can be easily integrated with Ensemble Video to create a fully automated end-to-end system from content capture to Web publishing. ABC. Recently we met online with Tim Slater, Engineer in the Digital Media Productions department at Florida State College at Jacksonville, a... [More]

A new Ensemble Video captioning interface with built-in management controls will enable institutions to caption and search more content. Philadelphia, PA – October 18, 2011 - Universities and colleges across the U.S. are struggling with accessibility for hearing impaired students an... [More]

The IT staff and a nursing department at an innovative college in Georgia are doing more with less. How? They are using Polycom videoconferencing equipment to concurrently teach nursing courses across multiple campuses and using Ensemble Video to provide 24x7 on-demand access to recorded conferenc... [More]

A new video “Dropbox” application, created in collaboration with Clemson University, can be useful for a variety of applications across your institution!  We’ll be refining and integrating this into Ensemble Video over time, but we wanted to share what we have now, since it may be useful to man... [More]

The Ensemble Video default Flash-based player is called the Flowplayer, and there is a commercial version of this that you can use with Ensemble Video to brand your video content with your institution’s logo. ABC. The commercial Flowplayer allows you to add a graphic logo in the upper right hand co... [More]

Configuring Wowza Media Server for Live streaming is quick and easy!  ABC Wowza Media Server 2, like Adobe’s Flash Media Server, implements something called “Applications,” which each enable specific streaming video functions and interactions. This includes streaming video-on-demand, video rec... [More]

Check out a live stream at the University of Illinois Chicago of a Perregrine Falcon nest outside the office of LAN Administrator Scott Quinn. When this entry was written the chicks were a little over a week old and just gaining their bearings! ABC. UIC Peregrine Falcon's Nest Live streaming can... [More]

Once your Ensemble Video System Administrator implements system-wide custom Preview and Thumbnail images, then when you manage audio, animation, and other media types, where no preview or thumbnail can be extracted, you’ll see branding for your institution rather than the Ensemble Video logo. ABC. ... [More]

Jing is a cool screen capture tool popular among educators and IT trainers in higher education as well as K-12. The FREE version creates SWF files which technically aren’t video files, and they need to be uploaded to a Web server to be viewable. ABC.  Jing is a simple, easy-to-use screen captu... [More]

If you have media files that are behaving badly on playback, you may want to use a program like GSpot to look into the file details. ABC. Occasionally, we hear from users who are creating and uploading MP4 files to Ensemble Video (without transcoding), and find that they play back in the ... [More]