User experience

•     Three themes available in Management Portal: Light, dark, and high contrast.

•     Standardized headers and footers

•     Improved bulk content management workflow

•     Improved search results to support bulk editing of presentations

•     Users can filter presentations that include captions

•     Added the ability to access the caption editor directly from the Management Portal

See Navigating the Portal

Presentation management

•     Users can add custom links to templates and schedules.

•     Users can add presentations that support RTMP streaming

•     Supports OneDrive integration (limited availability)

•     Users can download media packages (.zip files) from a presentation’s properties page

•     Users can share presentations, channels, and showcases using QR codes

•     Users can import recordings from Matrox Monarch LCS

•     Users can customize player’s background color or use an image for presentations, schedules, and templates

See Adding live RTMP presentations and Downloading media packages.

Players

Added premier player

See Adding players

Accessibility

•     Mediasite Captioning powered by Vidable™ is now available

•     Mediasite now supports Amberscript

•     Supports high-contrast theme, which supports users with visual impairments.

•     Users can switch UI font to Dyslexie, a font that supports users with dyslexia.

•     Users can download audio transcripts.

•     Users can add DFXP caption files with multiple languages, which allows viewers to select the language they want in the player

•     Users can download captions, transcripts, podcasts, vodcasts, and/or media packages from channels.

•     Users can access Caption Editor from Management Portal

See Using automated captioning, Adding presentations Updating your profile settings and Adding captions manually.

Scheduling

•     Users can import schedules using CSV files

•     Users can set security and visibility on schedules using schedule import files

•     Users can create schedules for Mosaic

See Scheduling presentations

Video collection management

•     Users can update multiple channels at once

•     Users can customize presentation metadata displayed in channels and showcases

•     Users can change channel menu bar color

•     Users can add external links to showcase menus

•     Showcase channels have been converted to channels, appear in the channels list and can be managed separately from the showcase containing them.

•     Users can add existing channels to showcases.

•     Added the ability to download captions, transcripts, podcasts, vodcasts, and/or media packages to channel downloads.

See Managing channels, Managing showcases and Adding channel navigation menus

Live streaming

•     Users can stream live content from third-party streaming services using RTMP.

•     Users can make live RTMP streams available for on-demand viewing.

See Adding live RTMP presentations (limited release)