Introduction

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

• Access video content archived in a Viz One system from Escenic web sites

• Use Viz One 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 One system

  • 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 One system

• 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 One to transcode video content.

Some of 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

Specifically, if you do not have Viz Content Pilot installed on your computer or are using a different operating system, then:

• You will not be able to access Viz One to select video content from within Content Studio.

• You will not be able to add template-based graphics to videos.

Most of the extra functionality that the Video plug-in provides access to is provided by Escenic video components: Viz Content Pilot, and Viz One. 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.