welcome my name is sort of shorter chair of the opencast board i would
like to introduce you to opencast 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 coherently and integrate with other academic
systems this is where opencast can help you it will process video
assets base 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
you why were you manage your videos both as individual assets or
combined in a serious the u i 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 at me you i
can be transferred to the systems so users of your lie learning
management system can upload videos schedule 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 open cast conserve 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
official mobile distribution to four k video in all it's glory the pay a
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 come and 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 established 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 mouth apple 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 opencast with opencast you can start with an all
in one service solution and enlarged your infrastructure to a distributed
set custom managing tens of thousands of videos adding storage
and service 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 opencast out performs 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 been using the open cast
a p i you want your lecture capture to be fit from the local syllabus
adapt existing modules to automate recordings and provide meta data
sharing these efforts comes as part of the collective roadmapping and
allows you to reduce cost even further finally the open community
is host to a number of projects loosely coupled to opencast as a
software a low cost raspberry pi based capture agent tracking
technologies to automatically record teachers in the classroom and
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
opencast