Mediasite allows you to upload content created using other tools. You can create on-demand presentations by uploading video files as well as by importing media, including Zoom and TechSmith® Camtasia Relay recordings. When importing media, you have the option of extracting slides.
You can use Management Portal to import media for publishing as on-demand presentations. Presentations published using imported media are placed in Mediasite folders, using the information obtained from templates, and can be played back in the Mediasite Player. To automate this process, you will create media import projects.
When adding a media import
project, you can optionally create and select a new template specifically for
the project. For instructions on creating templates, see the Mediasite
Configuration Guide. By default, media import is not enabled for Mediasite
Cloud since it requires an FTP or SFTP site, which Sonic Foundry DOES NOT
provide.
Archive media
When the media type being imported or uploaded does not match the media type specified on one of the content servers in a presentation, the media type is managed as “archive media” and transcoded to the format specified on the content servers.
Mediasite supports archive media for uploading and importing of MP4 and Windows Media formats. For example, if a media import project uses a presentation template that has an MP4 content server and a Windows Media file is dropped into the drop box, it will be transcoded to MP4 format. The newly created MP4 file will use the encoding settings specified for the MP4 content server. The Windows Media file is marked as the “archive source” and is not available for use within Mediasite but is maintained as a media file associated with the presentation. Archived media follows the presentation life cycle and Mediasite deletes it when you delete the presentation.
Supported media
You can automatically import the following into Mediasite:
•Zoom recordings (Cloud―Business, Education, or API Plan)
•TechSmith’s Camtasia Relay recordings
•Video files (Windows Media or MP4)
•Recordings exported from Catch
•Previously exported Mediasite 6.x or 7.0 presentations (zipped)
•6.x and 7.0 publish to go packages (Recorder or Management Portal)
When Mediasite’s
Multi-Format Video Importer (MFVI) is installed, you can import additional file
types. MFVI, which is available separately, uses libraries from the FFmpeg
project under the LGPLv2.1. For more information, see KBA3779 available on the
Customer Care Portal at www.sonicfoundry.com/support.