Introduction

The Escenic Content Engine's Video plug-in supports integration of the Content Engine with Viz Media Engine (VME), making it possible to:

• Access video content archived in a Viz Media Engine from Escenic web sites

• Use Viz Media Engine to:

  • transcode video content

  • generate keyframes from video content

  • send transcoded video content to the required location (a content delivery network for example)

  The source video content may be stored in a number of different locations:

  • A Viz Media Engine

  • In some other archive elsewhere on the net

  • Locally, in a location known to the Content Engine.

The plug-in also incorporates a Content Studio extension that enables Content Studio users to easily:

• Access and browse video content stored in a Viz Media Engine

• Decorate selected video content by adding template-based graphics (for example, lead in and lead out graphics, graphic overlays and so on).

• Add selected and decorated video content to suitably-configured content items

• Use Viz Media Engine to transcode video content.

This extra Content Studio functionality is only fully available if:

• You are running Content Studio on Microsoft Windows

• You have a correctly configured Viz Content Pilot Newsroom Component (from version 5.6.1) installed on your computer

If you do not have Viz Content Pilot installed on your computer or are using a different operating system, then content items that reference video objects can still be opened, but you will not be able to access Viz Media Engine to select video content.

Most of the extra functionality that the Video plug-in provides access to is provided by Escenic video components: Viz Content Pilot, and Viz Media Engine. This functionality is therefore not described in any detail here: if you need to know more then you should consult the documentation for the relevant product.