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What is Kaltura?

Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.

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What is Kaltura?

Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Panopto is a video management platform for businesses and universities from the company of the same name in Seattle, supporting the recording, sharing, live streaming, and (after recording) sharing via LMS or internal video site, video search, and virtual classroom.

What is Vimeo?

Vimeo is a video experience platform. They enable anyone to create high-quality video experiences to connect and bring ideas to life. They proudly serve their growing community of nearly 300 million users — from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams at the world's largest companies.

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Product Demos

What's new for Kaltura Media and Sakai

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Features

Video Marketing

Features related to using video marketing content, as well as marketing videos themselves.

7.5
Avg 7.5

Video Platform Integrations

Integrations between the enterprise video platform and other business applications.

7.3
Avg 6.3

Video Security

Features related to the security of an organization's content stored on an enterprise video platform.

8.3
Avg 8.9

Video Player

Features that support playing and watching video content that is hosted on the enterprise video platform.

7.8
Avg 8.5

Video Analytics

Features related to collecting and analyzing data around video streaming quality, viewer behavior, etc.

6.4
Avg 7.8

Video Hosting, Management & Storage

Features related to hosting, managing, and storing video content.

8.1
Avg 8.7

Video Engagement

Features to engage viewers around video content, particularly for live streams.

7
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

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Kaltura Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.

Brightcove, Dalet Flex, and Wistia are common alternatives for Kaltura.

Reviewers rate Video personalization and Integration to LMS highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Kaltura are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Kaltura - One stop solution for all things video.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 12, 2017
LF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kaltura
5 years of experience
Kaltura is used to deploy all our rich media assets to our multiple websites within our company.
  • We use Kaltura's ability to trans code video asset into multiple file types to make the videos easily accessible on multiple platforms.
  • Kaltura's accessibility with the use of close captions and great 508 compliant video players.
  • The ability to customize any player to fit our styles and different audience types with our websites.
Cons
  • The only feature I believe Kaltura needs is a better way to deliver Audio Descriptive content more easily.
Kaltura is a great source for companies that use lots of video content to delver to their audiences. The have versatile players that are easy to customize to fit your company's needs and provide excellent accessibility to its users.

Unlock the potential of your media library with Kaltura

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 28, 2019
MN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kaltura
2 years of experience
Kaltura solves multiple problems for our organization but our main demand has been sharing professionally produced video content created across all users in a seamless and easily searchable way. Our school has thousands of videos produced for our online graduate program but there was no easy way to share them in our LMS for other end users. Additionally, Kaltura has made it very easy for instructors and students to produce their own ad-hoc videos 'on the fly' from within our LMS (Blackboard).
  • The Kapture Space tool has helped instructors create a desktop recording and supplemental lectures such as voice over PPTs with minimal software knowledge.
  • The in-line quizzing features have made for a more interactive user experience. Students have become far more likely to watch a video all the way through and the tool integrates smoothly with the LMS grade book.
  • Accessibility is always a primary concern. Kaltura integrates well with other third-party providers such as 3 Play Media or DotSub to create captioning and interactive transcripts.
Cons
  • The quizzing feature is pretty good but it could use some more options.
  • An in-line polling feature vs a straight quizzing feature would be helpful.
Kaltura is an excellent tool IF you have a large library of content. It can be pretty pricey so if you are early in launching an online program you may be better off waiting a few years until you've amassed a large enough catalog to warrant the investment in such a tool.

The tool is best purchased by a University or company-wide vs having a single department try to find the budget for it. The unlimited plan pays for itself in most cases if you go this route. Secondly, you must be willing to invest time and resources into on-going training for your faculty and staff, especially for those who wish to create their own media and use the quizzing features.

Kaltura offers easy video streaming and transcoding

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 27, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kaltura
2 years of experience
Kaltura is being used across the entire organization as the designated video streaming platform. It allows individual users or departments to upload, transcode, and share videos with others within our organization or publicly on the web outside of our organization. Videos are automatically transcoded to be viewable on the widest possible number of devices.
  • Transcoding.
  • Automatic captioning.
  • Embedding video.
Cons
  • Admin interface is sometimes difficult to navigate.
  • Videos ingested sometimes are delayed by hours or days before being available.
  • Support services often have full-day delays before escalation.
Kaltura is great for a department that wants to create and distribute videos by embedding them on their departmental website. It is also fantastic to build a personal video library for individual users. The editing capabilities are basic, but provide users with the tools necessary to crop and trim their videos as needed.

Kaltura is a good video management platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 02, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kaltura
1 year of experience
We use Kaltura's platform in order to integrate our platform with our customers who are using Kaltura on their end. It is being used solely by the Research & Development team, and only for such integration purposes. For each customer, we apply a specific integration according to their needs.
  • Kaltura's platform let's you manage your video content in the cloud
  • Kaltura's platform lets you stream your video content and saves you from handling it by yourself
Cons
  • Kaltura's "Mediaspace" (video portal) is relatively slow and not so intuitive to handle
  • Kaltura's KMC (management console) is less intuitive when you have multiple accounts to handle
If your product requires managing content (mainly videos) and you should host it, manage it, stream it etc. - Kaltura is an excellent solution that saves you time and effort in trying to accomplish all of these by yourself.
In addition, if you need it for integrations with your own customers who use Kaltura - their integrations are great as well.

Kaltura Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 19, 2016
It's being used as a video repository and eventual warehouse for legacy video formats in order to transiiton from analog to digital. It also integrates into Canvas so that students can add their own video assets to assignments.
  • Very robust SAAS platform. Lots of options for customization.
  • Relatively stable and reliable. We did have one recent outage at a critical time.
  • They continue to build on their feature list. A new video quiz feature was recently added.
Cons
  • As it relates to the LMS integration, we would like to see improved workflow. But that may be just as much a Canvas issue as a Kaltura issue.
  • I would like to see the ability to add inline, anchored comments to the video timeline.
  • We are seeing issues with compatibility with certain browsers - especially Chrome. The faster Kaltura can move away from Flash the better.
  • The capture appliance (CaptureSpace Lite) needs to be reconsidered. It's not intutive enough.
It's a good data warehouse and repository. It has decent integration with the LMS. It can also be used for digital signage and lecture capture. (Although we would not consider it for lecture capture. Not well developed. There are much better products in that space.)
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