welcome my name is Olaf Salter chair of
the opencast Board I would like to
introduce you to open cast the open
source video management system like any
other university school or institution
you must be faced with an
ever-increasing number of videos whether
you are producing them yourself or
managing what teachers students and
everyone else keeps throwing at you
sooner rather than later you will feel
the need to manage these videos coherent
lis and integrate with other academic
systems this is where open cast can help
you it will process video assets based
on workflows you define beyond the mere
encoding videos will be analyzed and
enriched for a smoother user experience
when watching the video and multiple
options for handling different video
sources are available management of
these assets happens in the admin UI
where you manage your videos both as
individual assets or combined in a
series the UI shows you every detail of
every asset and helps you to filter
through thousands of videos at the same
time the dashboard will keep you up to
date with respect to the overall status
of the system and indicate need for
action or intervention when integrated
with other systems features of the
opencast admin UI can be transferred to
these systems so users of your learning
management system can upload videos
scheduled recordings edit videos after
the fact and integrate these assets to
their courses the load of the video
assets remains with the video management
system of course in addition to your
learning management system opencast can
serve other publication channels whether
that's a dedicated video or media portal
or your local content management system
or YouTube likewise distribution options
are flexible and state-of-the-art to
support users from a
mobile distribution - 4k video in all
its glory the pea player is the default
video player for opencast it comes with
a number of features to benefit from the
videos being enriched during processing
and allows for interactivity by enabling
students to comment videos all
activities can be monitored and
resulting data can be used in learning
analytics the player is customizable to
only present the features you want for
your audience now that all the videos
are out there let's take a look under
the hood opencast uses only open source
technologies and technologies well
establish in the academic world and
beyond it supports you on most Linux
distributions and can run locally using
cloud services or as a federated system
supporting multiple institutions based
on this stack let's go back to the
initial assumption about your video as
it's growing here's a real world example
of a lecture capture program developing
with open cast with open cast you can
start with an all-in-one server solution
and enlarge your infrastructure to a
distributed system managing tens of
thousands of videos adding storage and
servers is easy and comes at no cost
other than the hardware or service
itself no additional license cost of
course it's open source this is why open
cast outperforms commercial systems when
it comes to the total cost of ownership
even more so because it allows you to
customize to your needs
like no proprietary solution on the
market you have a learning management
system no commercial video management
system supports build a connection using
the opencast api you want your lecture
capture to be fed from the local
syllabus adapt existing modules to
automate recordings and provide metadata
sharing these efforts comes as part of
the collective road mapping and allows
you to reduce cost even for
finally the opencast community is host
to a number of projects loosely coupled
to open cast as a software a low-cost
Raspberry Pi based capture agent
tracking technologies to automatically
record teachers in the classroom an
extended annotation and video analysis
tool and much more it's a vibrant
community of video enthusiasts you are
welcome to join to do so hit our website
join the mailing list and become part of
open cast