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  HOW TO: Use Jing Screen Capture & SWF files with Ensemble

  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...

  • Posted September 23, 2010
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  TIP: Diagnose Problem Audio/Video with GSpot

  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.  Occasionally, we hear from users who are creating and uploading MP4...

  • Posted July 10, 2010
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  TIP: New Hardware Dramatically Reduces Encoding Time

  Scott Nadzan, IT director at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, shared some recent test results that show how new desktop hardware can reduce time to encode, and significantly ease the ‘pain’ of encoding in the process. ...

  • Posted June 16, 2010
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  HOW TO: Use Ensemble Video Categories

  Categories can provide a useful means for organizing access to content when you are publishing a lot of videos to an embedded video library.  To publish to any Ensemble Video Web destination you must choose a Category...

  • Posted June 1, 2010
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  HOW TO: Create Captions in YouTube for Ensemble Video

  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!).  Joel Steinfeldt Joel has experimented...

  • Posted May 31, 2010
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  CHALLENGE: Video Recording & Content Security

  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...

  • Posted May 2, 2010
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  CHALLENGE: Valuable Video Trapped on Legacy Media

  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...

  • Posted April 29, 2010
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  HOW TO: Embed a video with Flash

  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...

  • Posted April 28, 2010
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  COOL TOOLS: Extreme Close-Up

  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...

  • Posted April 19, 2010
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  INSIDE: Ensemble & Podcast Producer

  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. ...

  • Posted April 14, 2010
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