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Ensemble Video is an online video platform that simplifies video management and delivers content any time, over a variety of networks.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/v2/Bv/47QULEQ3C2TR.JPEGEnsemble VideoCreate an ensemble of your campus videos!2016-09-26T19:14:05.377ZOur Ensemble instance is used quite a bit by our campus. Its primary use is for hosting the videos instructors would show in face-to-face courses for their online courses. Faculty who legally own VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, or some other digital format of a video may drop that video to our office (after obtaining permission by copyright holders to show their videos to online courses). Student workers perform the tasks necessary to take that original video and have it hosted on our Ensemble video license. The faculty member is provided a URL to the Ensemble video (which is added to a playlist for the faculty member) to link within the LMS.
We also heavily use Ensemble for ADA compliance. This includes hosting transcribed videos (for which a third-party service is integrated with our Ensemble instance), Kurzweil files, specially annotated PDF documents, etc., to provide a central location for our campus to better serve those students with special needs.,Faculty bring in a variety of different formats for videos, including VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, MP4, and more. Those at Ensemble Video have helped us to develop a good streamlined workflow to get these varying formats hosted in a central location and develop a campus-wide standard.
Ensemble Video has greatly helped us provide better services to our students needing special accommodations.
Ensemble is a stable product, where needing help from their support team is very rare. However, on those very rare occasions, their support team is very knowledgeable. We had an issue once that I thought was so obscure, but the team quickly replied with the right answer to resolve our issue, without so much as a clarification on my support ticket.
If self hosting the Ensemble Video product, their team will take care of upgrades for you as part of the licensing.,There is one issue where sometimes the 'Add' button to add new media disappears, typically once per week. The workaround is to restart the physical server. While restarting the server each week can be a good thing, it would be nice not to have to keep a reminder on my calendar.,10,I would say our campus' overall business objective would be to serve our students. Ensemble Video has helped us to do that, and in particular has helped to better serve students with special needs.,Panopto and Kaltura,Blackboard, Blackboard Collaborate, DropboxJoseph AxenrothAmazing Media Streaming Service2016-09-21T21:34:41.315ZEnsemble Video has reduced our workload and made our users a lot happier, and, in the end, that’s the real solution. It's being used with as an enterprise software across the whole organization. Ensemble Video has taken our myriad needs and provided a platform that addresses all of them.,Ensemble Video delivers an easy and fast solution to upload media for educational purposes.
Ensemble Video has succeeded for us where other solutions have failed.,Include additional training and development sessions.
Introduce additional analytical features for reports.,9,Ensemble Video has provided positive impact on our Distance Education program which allow users to view streaming media for educational purposes.,MediasiteDerek HardawayEnsemble - A Comprehensive Solution to all Multimedia Needs2016-09-21T20:59:13.782ZEnsemble Video is primarily used for hosting and delivering multimedia content in our online classes. A great feature of Ensemble Video is ease of creating submission links and user accounts. This gives us a powerful solution for user submitted content that can then be shared through playlists, links and our Blackboard LMS. With the newer embed options, we've also been using Ensemble Video more in our professional development presentations that are built in Articulate Storyline.,Adapting to user needs. Ensemble Video seems to always be listening to their clients needs and suggestions by implementing effective features in every system update. Communication seems to always indicate that these features are driven by requests that their customers have made to improve the service.
Client Support - I have an IT/support background and have had to deal with many vendors and external support. Ensemble is easily the most responsive and effective vendor when it comes to support. When needing certain solutions, they have sent code that was in development and not officially released so I could achieve my goals with project videos. Support is always personal, prompt and effective.
Customization. New templates, video players, account management, and embed options have allowed us to use Ensemble Video in a much more personalized way. Early versions of the service had an "Ensemble feel" but color schemes and logos are now able to be changed for a better organization feel.,Sometimes the wait time to convert videos can take awhile. It's not a huge concern but it is something we usually have to point out to students that are uploading their own videos.
Better file management options would also be nice. Functionality to copy or move video files to different libraries does exist but it can sometimes be a time consuming and tedious process.,10,Ease of user contributed content. The videos that users upload to the system can either be automatically published or they can be reviewed by staff before being added to websites and courses. Instead of all these videos living on different sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) we now have a centralized location that we have control over.
LMS Integration - A year ago YouTube changed their policy to not allow direct recording from webcams. This essentially broke the Blackboard Video Everywhere tool that allowed our instructors to post quick comments in class discussions and content areas. While they need to be pre-recorded, the Ensemble Building Block allows our instructors and students to once again upload and post videos, all from directly within the Blackboard content editor.
Flexibility - With the ease of creating user accounts and video libraries, Ensemble Video has become the go to option for Erikson courses, professional development content and project videos. Different departments can have their own account and have control over their libraries without the worry of them viewing or editing other institute content.,Blackboard, Articulate StorylineMike MaxseThe Multiple Benefits of Ensemble Video in Higher Education2016-09-01T22:10:42.172ZEnsemble Video is used across our academic and business departments to host media libraries that aid instructional purposes. Academic departments use their libraries for instructional videos that are linked to their educational programs in integration with our learning management system. Business departments use their libraries for staff training and support. Additionally some users have personal libraries were they host media for multiple research purposes.,Customer support. One of the best experiences I have had in this respect. Always helpful and timely.
The system design and features is properly implemented. Enough flexibility with only the right amount of options.
Constant product improvement. Ensemble Video continues to evolve, adding better and more powerful features. We are always excited about new releases and how they will improve our processes.,User management. Some features are unique to the entire deployment (like authentication sources). It would be great if multiple authentication options could be used across different Ensemble institutions.
Upgrade processes. Though new versions of Ensemble Video are always better, the installation process is very manual and Ensemble Video must be involved directly. Not a weakness, but it would be nice to be able to perform our own upgrades/patches when needed.,10,ROI is sometimes tricky because systems, once implemented, are never welcomed by end users and thus, the ROI originally foreseen was more idealistic than real. Ensemble Video is almost universally well received by end users and thus, there is a real ROI that mostly relates to institutional effectiveness.,,Schoology, Extensis Portfolio, SmartsheetCarlos AstorgaTrustRadius readers will love it!2016-09-20T19:59:08.577ZEsemble Video is the software we use to manage streaming video accounts for faculty and staff at the university. It is an excellent product that allows us to manage a large volume of videos for the campus. It is user friendly and an affordable option for our campus. We are now also including our materials for ADA compliance as well.,Ease of use
Many options it affords the user
Affordability
Operability,Would like not to have to restart the server each week to get the add button to appear.,10,Ensemble videos allows our department in house to manage and stream videos to be viewed by our campus community.
Providing these services saves our university money, which is a precious resource on our campus.,Zayac Lynn
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Ensemble Video
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