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]

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]

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]

Categories can provide a useful means for organizing access to content when you are publishing a lot of videos to an embedded video library.  ABC. To publish to any Ensemble Video Web destination you must choose a Category in the Sharing form in the Add/Edit wizard. There is a single “Default ... [More]

Joel Steinfeldt, Media Communications Specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recently shared with me the details of how to use YouTube transcription and closed caption functions with Ensemble Video (Thanks, Joel!). ABC. Joel Steinfeldt Joel has experimented with YouTube’s ... [More]

Embedding individual videos with a Flash-based player in a Web page can be a powerful and useful way to provide viewer access to video managed in your Ensemble Video library. It’s easy to do, and there are a few things you can do to customize how your videos look and play on your pages. ABC. There ... [More]

While most Ensemble Video users upload and publish video-on-demand, Ensemble can also be used to manage and publish live streams from live event video or television broadcast feeds. ABC. Many institutions use live streaming to provide access to live events, such as graduations, lectures, and sporti... [More]

This blog entry explains how to create closed captions with MAGpie and upload them to Ensemble Video, where they will be automatically synchronized with your video on playback. This is a fairly simple process to implement and one you should consider if you’re not already captioning your content. ABC... [More]

The Ensemble Video library publishing model is a powerful feature that many new users don’t recognize or use. If you are one, I recommend you try it, you’ll like it!  ABC Users who upload and manage media using Ensemble Video typically want to publish their content to viewers on a Web site out... [More]

With Ensemble Video’s collaboration and sharing features, you can easily create a video showcase Web site for your organization. If you have lots of compelling content across your organization, a showcase Web site can be a real winner! ABC. Many organizations that use Ensemble Video find that video... [More]