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09 Dec

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –November 23, 2014

The following videos from Film Ideas Inc. were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:


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01 Dec

Introducing new Closed Caption creator tool and other captioning enhancements

We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing a closed captioning creator and editor tool that will allow media owners to manually create captions for their existing and new media files on the night of December 8, 2014.

Some of the features of the captioning tool are

  • Adjust delay time to captions (suitable while working with external caption files)
  • Ability to import existing captions (in SRT, TTML formats) created by external applications or services. The caption creator tool can then be used to edit captions and their timings.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to simplify the caption creation process
  • Import plain text transcripts and adjust start and end time for quicker creation of captions
  • The caption creator tool will automatically create WEBVTT caption format for showing captions on HTML5 player on mobile devices (phones, tablets)
  • Users can also provide caption text in different languages and can insert symbols with the provided onscreen multilingual keyboard
  • Export and download created captions.
  • Save drafts of captioning work to resume at a later time

Other enhancements related to Captions

  • The user will be able to not just toggle on or off captions but also be able to switching to captions in other languages (if they exist) on the Flash and HTML5 player
  • Ability to add existing captions from within LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle etc)
  • The user will be able to not just toggle on or off captions but also be able to switching to captions in other languages (if they exist) on the Flash and HTML5 player
  • Ability to add existing captions from within LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle etc)

Please note that there will not be any downtime or service interruption when this feature is released. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net.regards, 

NJVID Staff

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24 Oct

Maintenance Notification: November 2, 2014 from 6 AM to 8 AM

On Sunday, November 2, 2014, between 6 A.M. and 8 A.M., NJVID staff will be involved in extending the NJVID service infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and perform server configuration changes, DNS migrations and other work related to this extension.

This move to AWS for certain services will provide NJVID technical staff the ability to quickly scale up the service and provide agility to our infrastructure especially since our service and storage demand has seen a phenomenal increase in usage. We are confident that the AWS platform coupled with the NJEDge infrastructure will provide greater processing power, high availability, offer scalability on demand and will ultimately provide a superior end user experience.

Please note that during this time window, the NJVID service may be impacted in part or in full. In the event this maintenance activity does impact service, the possible outage duration should not exceed 30 minutes.

Please feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net if you have any questions regarding this email.

regards,
NJVID Staff

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19 Oct

NJVID has a new vendor – Screenscope, Inc.

The following videos from Screenscope, Inc. were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

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26 Sep

Feature updates – releasing October 3, 2014

We are excited to announce the availability of some new features and updates that we have been working on. This update will be made available to all NJVID users on October 3, 2014 at approximately 11 PM EST

List of new updates
 

1. Enhanced Media Upload Functionality Tool

NJVID now features an updated and enhanced media upload tool. Some of the significant features of this updated functionality are:

  • We have increase the upload size limits from 2 GB to 5 GB. Now users can easily upload large files directly from your computer or any device instead of using a FTP or web server.In the past, users had to use a FTP or web server to bypass the 2 GB limit.
  • The Flash based file uploader has been replaced with a HTML5 file uploader, thus allowing users to upload media files directly from their mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. Instructors and students can record lectures or presentations from these devices and upload them directly to NJVID.
  • New ‘Drag and Drop’ functionality lets users on newer browsers (that support HTML5) select media files from their windows or file explorer and drop it into the interface for easier and faster file selection.
  • We have also updated bulk upload interface and increased the number of files that can be uploaded from a personal device from 10 media files to 20.

2. Support for more video and audio codecs

The NJVID platform now supports an exhaustive list of video and audio codecs enabling users to upload a wider variety of file formats and extensions. The complete list of all the supported Video and audio codecs that are now supported can be viewed at http://support.njvid.net/support/solutions/articles/170940-supported-media-file

3. Support for Collection level access permissions

NJVID Collection managers now have the added capability to specify collection level access permissions and can restrict access to specific users, groups or all users of the Institution. This is similar to how object level share permissions are provided today. Additionally collections can also be kept private as well and visible only to the collection manager and administrator. Similarly the listing visibility of the collection on the website can be set to inherit the access permissions in addition to the  listed or unlisted permissions that are available today. This update will not affect the listing options or access permissions that may have been set on existing collections.

4. New features and bug fixes for NJVID Reporting tool

A new feature has been added to the NJVID Reporting tool that will display a drill down pie chart for the media views or media asset data set. These charts can be accessed by clicking on the pie chart icon under the available filter options. We have also taken care of some bug fixes that were reported to us.

Feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net if you have any questions regarding this email.

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