Sonic Foundry Elevates Video Content Management 和 Rich Video Capture with Mediasite 6.1

New features set the bar for the most holistic approach to creating, managing 和 distributing academic multimedia 和 user-generated content

麦迪逊,威斯康辛州(2012年11月7日)

科罗拉多州丹佛市. — EDUCAUSE Booth 1433 — November 7, 2012 — Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted market leader for video management 和 academic, enterprise 和 event 网路广播, today announced significant enhancements to Mediasite EX, with the 6.1族特征.

This evolution of the Mediasite EX 网路广播 和 video content management system provides unprecedented control 和 flexibility for universities, automatically processing not only the video but its associated metadata through powerful search 和 analytics, 从而使丰富的视频像文本一样有用.

Mediasite users can also record 和 上传 rich media presentations, learning objects or training modules from the convenience of their desktop or laptop 和 automatically publish them to the powerful Mediasite EX platform. Enhanced web-based tools 和 collaboration workflows provide a layer of control for enterprise clients with multiple content producers 和 knowledge-creation environments, 允许增长, management 和 scalability of online knowledge libraries.

“For more than a decade we’ve championed 和 perfected the practice of wide-scale, automated content capture – developing the award-winning Mediasite Recorders to extract knowledge at the point of learning 和 publish it to Mediasite EX where it automatically becomes indexed, 可搜索的, 安全的富视频. 使用Mediasite EX 6.1, we help our customers extend the power 和 reach of Mediasite to manage not only content created in the classroom, but also video created 和 上传ed from any device or environment. They now have a dynamic solution at their disposal that unifies the management of vast amounts of content at the creation point, 不管它在哪里,加里·韦斯说, Sonic Foundry首席执行官.

6.1系列功能包括:

用户生成内容模块授权教师, 员工和学生轻松创建, 上传, 编辑, share 和 manage rich video presentations wherever they are through the new My Mediasite 和 Mediasite Desktop Recorder.
“The Mediasite Desktop Recorder will be easier for us to maintain than other software-based options. 这个应用程序非常容易使用, I know even our most tech-challenged staff are going to quickly adopt it. 因为它是一个网络客户端, our user-generated content will automatically 上传 to our Mediasite EX management platform.——佛罗里达大学IT专家布莱恩·史密斯

Automated metadata creation 和 content tagging makes all content, 无论是通过Mediasite录制还是上传, 即时搜索和导航. 仅用于视频上传, Mediasite generates thumbnail navigation 和 indexes any text in the content, 把以前“平淡”的视频变成丰富的, 交互式视频. +, user tagging adds another powerful layer of metadata to help pinpoint content anywhere in a presentation, 目录, 或者整个Mediasite库.

Content approval workflows ensure quality-controlled user-generated content by enabling authorized users to review, 评论, 在发布之前编辑和批准视频.
“With more faculty requesting control over their own content, 和 with the University looking at creative ways to allow students to add presentations into our LMS though Mediasite, it is important for us to have workflows that not only allow us to review, 编辑和批准演示文稿, 但也要随着时间的推移保持多次修订. Mediasite 6.1, we can automate 和 streamline how we publish these presentations through the approval pipeline. We are excited about the possibilities of how it may also lend itself to our admissions department in the marketing of our university." ~Thomas Kemp, Director of Instructional Technology & 学习，阿什兰大学

Web-based Mediasite Editor allows users to conveniently 编辑 their rich video from any Mac or PC.

mp4的媒体导入, 以及Windows Media Video, lets 上传ed content take full advantage of Mediasite’s advanced search, 分析和安全.

Centralized Recorder updates allow administrators to automatically download 和 apply updates to Recorders remotely.

Mediasite 6.1 will be available for demonstration at EDUCAUSE booth 1433, 11月6日至9日在丹佛, Colorado 和 is set to be released in December 2012.

关于Sonic Foundry, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is the trusted market leader for 企业网络广播解决方案,提供 视频内容管理和分发 教育、商业和政府. 由专利提供动力 Mediasite网络直播平台 和 Mediasite Events的网络广播服务, the company empowers people to advance how they share knowledge online, 使用视频网络广播来跨越时间和距离, 加强学习成果，提高绩效.