Presenters – Scott Nadzan from http://www.ensemblevideo.com
Accounts & Access
- Supports LDAP, AD and CAS
- User Roles
- Institution Admin (Top-level “Middlebury”)
- Org Admin (e.g. Biology, Communications)
- Contributor (e.g. faculty)
- Everyone can see the navigation across the top of Institution>Organization>Library; view/manage others depending on user role
- LDAP Group Support(100k groups; rep will check support or suggest to limit group exposure)
- Authentication and user management
- CAS(supported in self hosted not cloud hosted) or Shibboleth.
- Can Ensemble read user attribute from CAS or Shibboleth?
Storage
- Deployment Options: http://www.ensemblevideo.com/video-platform/deployment.aspx
- Self-Hosted
- Cloud-Hosted
- CAS is not available for this option
- Cloud hosting: Option starts at 200GB, Level II 500 GB, Level III 1 TB, monthly streaming quote for level we choose
- Cloud Infrastructure:
- -3 sites, Scale Matrix CA, TX & Amazon. Headed to Amazon or Azure
- Hybrid-Hosted (2 options – primary on-campus w/ cloud caching OR primary in cloud w/local caching)
- -Hybrid Deployment: Software as a service and local hosted options, both recommended. Manual transition from one deployment to the other.
- Multi-Tenant
- -tech and security information available
Accessibility
- ‘Responsive Interface’, size adjustable and resizable
- Adaptive Streaming: yes – Client type(computer, tablet, phone) and bandwidth automatically identified and quality adjusted
- Annotation, clickable searchable annotation on video
- Use their captioning utility or caption, upload caption file, can submit to caption editor, can create caption track, searchable, currently only support one caption, next player will support multiple tracks
- Search includes captions
Canvas/Moodle/Wordpress
- Video embed through using button in WYSIWYG.
- Playlist can be embedded
- Playlist stored with Ensemble
- Is automatically updated as videos are added
- Videos can be added with attachments of associated files (ppt, pdf, etc.)
- Can record video, audio and screen
Content Management
- Upload Workflow’s 4 options
- Download, Embed, Permalink & Share options can be enabled or disabled (permission at institution level possible)
- Embed codes, iframe and java
- Can use named urls
- Playlists, can enable downloading
- Shared Library, video’s shared to you (Restricted/Licensed Content)
- Can restrict streams per video
- Preview image of video
- Can deploy a snippet of a video
Other
- Pricing:
- Self Hosted based on FTE, Midd’s Carnegie # 3,300
- Cloud based upon capacity (storage and streaming)
- -Set default and/or custom quotas at the institution, organization, and library levels
- Ala carte model
- Ensemble Live
- Live Stream
- Live Capture
- Ensemble Studio
- Exit Strategy/Large Scale Video Extraction:
- MPEG4 download available, one by one
- FTP download available
- Or hard drive
- Editing:
- -Minimal: trim, start & stop
- -more with screen capture
Overall Questions:
- Per class libraries vs per user: either depending on use case
- Record from mobile? Yes. (Recording requires separately-licensed app on mobile or desktop)
- Can you manage the video before the upload is complete? No, but you can after the upload but before the processing is complete.
- What’s the student view like? Some places use a public or student “portal” like the YouTube homepage with recommended videos, but it’s mostly expected that students will view/interact with videos primarily through Canvas. Admin interface is for admins.
- Annotations? Text only; editor only (not students, though rep will investigate “team” features for group collaboration).
- Unicode support – yes; RTL – need to check