[Carl Marrelli]

We are literally hours away from releasing EchoSystem 3.0 but the documentation is already up!!! I wanted to cover External Media Ingest this week. I think I'll simply structure this note around the documentation so you can get the best of both worlds. Happy Ingesting.

General Overview

External Media Ingest provides a simple way to include video and screen recordings capture with third-party tools in EchoSystem course delivery. This is quite useful for including field research recordings, chalkboard captures or professionally produced videos (among other cases) in courses. All media is processed into standard EchoSystem delivery formats and automatically published to RSS, iTunes U or the LMS.

External Media Ingest is available under certain license types. Please contact your account manager for further details.

Config Options

There are three configuration options relvant to the use of this feature. Both are set at the System (Global Defaults) or Section level.

• Upload Quotas - Apply storage quotas to sections. Quotas limit the use of both External Media Ingest and Personal Capture if defined.
• Allow External Media Upload - Applies to Presenters. Allows user to access the External Media Ingest tab
• Configure Products - Applies to Presenters. Allows Presenter user to select which products to create upon upload (i.e. Vodcast, Full Rich Media). If not enabled the system will accept the section defaults.

Documentation:
http://confluence.ec...Global+Defaults
http://confluence.ec...+for+Presenters

Using the Feature

External Media Ingest is implemented as a web form on the Echoes > External Media Tab. Presenters and Administrators can use this form to select the section they want to process the media for, enter in some meta-data and then choose the file to upload. That's it! With 5 simple clicks the media will be processed and published. The documentation link below has a lot more detail.

Documentation:
http://confluence.ec...Media+Ingest%29

Moving Forward

The documentation includes a table of supported file types and formats. While EchoSystem may accept other file formats and "just work", formats not listed in this table are not officially supported. Over the next several months and subsequent releases we will be adding support for additional file formats. If you are using a format that is essential to your business and you don't see it listed here, please send us a sample. Likewise if you try out a format and want to report if it does or does not work you can do so by opening a support case.

[PeterH]

Carl Marrelli, on 09 December 2010 - 03:39 PM, said:

General Overview

External Media Ingest provides a simple way to include video and screen recordings capture with third-party tools in EchoSystem course delivery. This is quite useful for including field research recordings, chalkboard captures or professionally produced videos (among other cases) in courses. All media is processed into standard EchoSystem delivery formats and automatically published to RSS, iTunes U or the LMS.

External Media Ingest is available under certain license types. Please contact your account manager for further details.

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Using the Feature

External Media Ingest is implemented as a web form on the Echoes > External Media Tab. Presenters and Administrators can use this form to select the section they want to process the media for, enter in some meta-data and then choose the file to upload. That's it! With 5 simple clicks the media will be processed and published. The documentation link below has a lot more detail.

Carl,
It all sounds so simple and so promising. However after us upgrading and asking where the tab was no-one seems to want to give me any answers. To say this has been an embarassment and a Damp Squib is a major understatement.

[Pierre]

PeterH, on 01 February 2011 - 12:00 PM, said:

Carl,
It all sounds so simple and so promising. However after us upgrading and asking where the tab was no-one seems to want to give me any answers. To say this has been an embarassment and a Damp Squib is a major understatement.

I also asked them how to enable this, and apparently you don't qualify if you're just a single echo360 capture appliance using University. You need 5 or more licenses to qualify.

[RUBcast]

Pierre, on 16 February 2011 - 02:39 AM, said:

I also asked them how to enable this, and apparently you don't qualify if you're just a single echo360 capture appliance using University. You need 5 or more licenses to qualify.

Ahh, nice to know. I cant see the connection between the feature to ingest external media and the number of licences, but ok. At least I dont have to search that function again.