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 Flash-base... [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]

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]

Podcast Producer has caught on as a tool for automatically capturing and processing video content. With a program developed by Go4Cast, an Apple consulting firm, Podcast Producer output can be automatically imported into your Ensemble Video libraries. ABC. Podcast Producer 2, which is bundled with ... [More]

With Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder and Ensemble Video you can create and publish a live stream, or you can easily record a video message for your students, colleagues, or community viewers! ABC. Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1 makes it easy to generate a live video stream, and it can also be used to ... [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]

If you’re a PC user and want an easy, inexpensive tool to do some basic edits on Windows Media, AVI, M4V, MOV, or MP4 files, Microsoft Expression Encoder is a tool you should consider. While output is limited to Windows Media in the free version, with a low-cost upgrade you can export great-looking ... [More]