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 media (video/audio) content archived in a Viz Media Engine from Escenic web sites

  • Use Viz Media Engine to:

    • transcode media content

    • generate key frames from video content

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

    The source media 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 media 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

  • Crop videos before publishing (that is, select a playback start point and end point so that only a segment of the video is published).

  • Add cue points to videos (significant points from which playback can be started).

  • Add transient links to videos (links that appear and disappear while the video is playing)

  • Use Viz Media Engine to transcode media 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 Media Engine to select media content from within Content Studio. You will, however, still be able to add media from Viz Media Engine by drag-and-drop from Viz Media 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 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.