Syndication-based Workflow

In a syndication-based workflow, the external system that is driving the publishing process communicates with the Content Engine by generating an Escenic syndication format file and starting an import process.

Publishing video in this workflow consists of the following steps:

1. The external system obtains the URL of the video to be published. The video may be stored either in a VME Video Production system or in some other archiving system. The only requirement is that the video archiving system makes the videos accessible to the VME Online system in some way. It might, for example, publish them on an HTTP, FTP or SMB server.

2. The external system creates an Escenic syndication format file that defines one or more video content items. Each content item definition contains the URL of the video content to be published.

3. The external system saves the syndication file in the Content Engine's import folder.

4. The Content Engine imports the syndication file, creating the content items defined in the syndication file.

5. The Content Engine sends the URL of the included video content to VME Online

6. VME Online retrieves the video from the specified location.

7. VME Online transcodes the retrieved video into the required web formats.

8. VME Online updates the transcoding status of the content item in the Content Engine.

9. VME Online sends the transcoded videos to the required location (a content delivery network, for example).

10. VME Online returns the URLs of the transcoded videos, keyframes and so on to the Content Engine.

11. The Content Engine updates the content item with the returned data.