Ensemble users are constantly looking for new ways to build video portals and video showcases that fully satisfy their viewing audiences. We created five easy to edit video portal templates that integrate with your Ensemble Video assets and the templates are fully customizable to meet your brandin... [More]

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]

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 key feature of Ensemble Video is the ability to customize our HTML Plug-in. Many times users have specific wants and needs when they are embedding multiple videos in web page. For example, a user may want to create a video showcase web page with new videos, category navigation, a search and a feat... [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]

Video capture technologies make it fairly easy to capture on-demand video so you can use it for your own purposes. While this is great in some ways, it creates significant challenges when trying to protect your own video content. ABC. Real Networks Real Player SP can record on-demand video content ... [More]

A treasure trove of video content is locked up in legacy tape- and disk-based media. Converting to streaming formats is moving to the front burner for all types and sizes of organizations. While you can spend a small fortune converting legacy content, there are also some reasonably priced, easy-to-u... [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]

We’re seeing incredible growth in the use of video to capture and document what happens in the world around us. As inexpensive, easy-to-use video recording technologies continue to evolve, the potential is extraordinary!  ABC. I’ve heard seasoned video professionals suggest that the only reall... [More]