What’s new in Mediasite 8

In Mediasite 8, there have been new features, workflows, and improvements added. Below are the new items discussed in this guide.

 

Category

Features

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User experience

      Three themes available in Management Portal: Light, Dark (reduces eye strain), and High Contrast (for maximum accessibility).

      Standardized headers and footers

Navigate the Portal

Content management

Adding, editing, and removing multiple presentations is faster and more feedback is provided in the UI.

  Managing content on folders and multiple presentations

Encoding settings

      Improved encoding settings choices for MP4 and Smooth Streaming content

      Added new encoding settings to allow high resolution content to be encoded at low bitrates

      Updated smooth streaming settings so that customization is no longer required

      Updated the encoding settings used by Mosaic and My Mediasite uploads to be more efficient

Managing encoding settings