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June 2, 2010
Syracuse University wins Award for Ensemble Video
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse University has been named a recipient of a 2010 Campus Technology Innovators Award for Ensemble Video and its automated media workflow systems.
In the sixth annual Campus Technology Innovators Award competition, 11 winners were selected in six categories from 484 nominations by higher education institutions around the globe. The winning projects will be described in detail in the August issue of Campus Technology magazine. The winners will also be spotlighted at the Campus Technology 2010 conference, to be held July 19-22 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.
Ensemble Video is an innovative enterprise video content management platform developed at Syracuse University and currently in use in dozens of higher education organizations, ranging from large campuses such as the University of Georgia, University of Illinois, and Temple University to smaller state and private colleges such as Colgate University, North Georgia College & State University and Stark State College, and to international campuses such as Singapore Management University.
Ensemble Video is available pre-installed on an appliance, the MediaPOINTE Ensemble Server, from Advanced Media Design Inc., an original equipment manufacturer; customers include the University of Kentucky, Pepperdine University, Northeastern University and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Ensemble Video is also being used in a hosted consortium model with several New York State Department of Education Regional Technology Centers which host Ensemble Video for their K-12 component school districts.
Scott Nadzan, director of technology services at the Whitman School, manages SU’s use of the Ensemble Video system along with his staff. “Ensemble’s flexibility has allowed us to integrate a variety of powerful technologies to create an automated and robust video sharing architecture for all our users across the institution,” Nadzan says. “Ensemble has helped media/technology professionals, faculty and students utilize more video in course curricula. Media/technology professionals are equipped with a flexible, scalable application to manage media across campus. Faculty can easily transcode, publish and stream video by dragging a video file into a folder on their PC. And students can easily consume video online and on demand from Blackboard, online showcases and most recently from iTunes University—they can now download course content that can travel with them on their MP3 players and other mobile devices.”
The simplification and flexibility provided by Ensemble Video has significantly increased the usage and consumption of online video at SU, Nadzan says. In less than two years, SU’s online video content has jumped from a few hundred videos offered by a handful of departments to about 4,500 videos produced by several dozen departments.
Many professors find that Ensemble has become indispensable to their teaching. The video case studies developed for courses are now being viewed outside of class time and drastically improve the in-class discussion and case analysis. Whitman School Dean Melvin T. Stith sees Ensemble as a strategic asset as the University positions itself for the future. “As learning online becomes an expectation in higher education, streaming video is playing a large role in delivering and enhancing coursework for our faculty and students,” Stith says. “Ensemble Video and our automated media workflow system provide a video management and distribution system for our faculty that creates new possibilities by expanding our curriculum and enabling students to learn online and on-demand.”
Ensemble Video supports a comprehensive range of media types including QuickTime, Windows Media, Flash Video, MPEG-4 (H.264) MPEG-2 Real Media and audio formats including WMA and MP3. The system has flexibility so that system administrators can dynamically add media types not included in the original installation. Image galleries are supported as well, so users can also publish and manage .jpg, .gif and .png formatted images.
Ensemble Video’s Web-based interface with intuitive wizards gives users the ability to easily upload, catalog, publish and share their video content, to an unlimited number of Web destinations, without the intervention of media services or IT support. Departments and individuals are now able to manage their own independent video libraries – to be able to easily upload media to preconfigured centralized or decentralized media servers, and catalog and publish their video content to multiple Web destinations without requiring assistance from central IT or central media services. “This allows organizations to produce and manage thousands of videos and image galleries with very little central IT support.
Ensemble Video is licensed exclusively through Symphony Video, Inc., a Syracuse, New York software company founded in January 2007 by Andy Covell, former executive director of IT at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video, Inc. provides Internet video software and services. Ensemble Video, our flagship product, an innovative enterprise video content management platform developed at Syracuse University, helps institutions save a great deal of money and time managing the ongoing proliferation of video assets throughout the institution. Ensemble Video is the choice platform for those organizations that value ease-of use, ease-of-support, flexibility and fast return on investment.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Incorporated. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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April 30, 2010
Colgate University Chooses Ensemble Video for Classrooms
Syracuse, NY - Colgate University has selected Ensemble Video to increase the effectiveness of delivering video to the classrooms. Led by Colgate CIO David Gregory, Ensemble Video is to be part of a Mellon Foundation grant application to explore streaming media technologies for video library collaboration within the New York liberal arts schools.
Founded in 1819, Colgate is one of the leading liberal arts universities in the country. Colgate is a nationally recognized liberal arts college set on a beautiful campus in central New York. Some 2,800 undergraduates are enrolled in 51 programs, taking advantage of the university's award-winning curriculum, off-campus study program, and numerous research opportunities.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video, Inc. provides Internet video software and services. Ensemble Video, an innovative enterprise video content management platform developed at Syracuse University, helps institutions save a great deal of money and time managing the ongoing proliferation of video assets throughout the institution. Ensemble Video is the choice platform for those organizations that value ease-of use, ease-of-support, flexibility and fast return on investment.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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April14, 2010
Ensemble Video Goes Global
Syracuse, NY - Singapore Management University to Develop Video Showcase
Singapore Management University's Integrated Information Technology Services department has selected Ensemble Video for managing, publishing and sharing rich media across the campus. One of the first applications will be a Video Showcase developed using the Ensemble Video Simple Publishing API.
Singapore Management University is a private university that was incorporated in 2000 and offers a style of education modelled after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. SMU is home to more than 7,000 students and comprises six schools: the School of Accountancy; Lee Kong Chian School of Business; School of Economics; School of Information Systems; School of Law; and School of Social Sciences.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video, Inc. provides Internet video software and services. Ensemble Video, an innovative enterprise video content management platform developed at Syracuse University, helps institutions save a great deal of money and time managing the ongoing proliferation of video assets throughout the institution. Ensemble Video is the choice platform for those organizations that value ease-of use, ease-of-support, flexibility and fast return on investment.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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March 30, 2010
Syracuse, NY - Podcast Producer Implementation Complete
Ensemble Video offers an innovative new mechanism, developed in conjunction with GO4CAST, an Apple software consultancy based in Florida, that can consume content from Apple's Podcast Producer. Podcast Producer output is automatically fed to an Ensemble Video library where it can be easily published to any number of Web destinations. Video is automatically converted to two formats: one for desktop viewing in a Flash-based player, and another version of the video in a format suitable for viewing on an iPhone or iPod.
At the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, where this integration was first implemented, video content is fed into the system from a TANDBERG Content server (a videoconference recording appliance), but the system can be easily adapted to work with any Podcast Producer input.
GO4CAST (www.go4cast.com ) is a global provider of Apple software consulting and training services.
The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1093, was ranked in the top 25% of professional pharmacy schools in a recent U.S News and World Report academic ranking. For more information see www.rx.uga.edu.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video, Inc. provides Internet video software and services. Ensemble Video, an innovative enterprise video content management platform developed at Syracuse University, helps institutions save a great deal of money and time managing the ongoing proliferation of video assets throughout the institution. Ensemble Video is the choice platform for those organizations that value ease-of use, ease-of-support, flexibility and fast return on investment.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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January 7, 2010
Syracuse, NY - University of Illinois Provides Unlimited, Campus-Wide Access to Ensemble Video
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, one of the first institutions to adopt Ensemble Video, recently secured an Ensemble Video Enterprise Software License to provide unlimited, campus-wide access to Ensemble Video. The University also upgraded to version 3.0 of Ensemble Video which offers closed caption support, an RSS feed for iTunes and iTunes University, and several other new features and capabilities important to many in the University of Illinois community. Check out the University of Illinois public video site at http://illinois.edu/here_now/videos.html.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, located about 140 miles south of Chicago, is a leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. The University offers more than 150 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate and professional programs.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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September 21, 2009
Syracuse, NY - Clemson University selects Ensemble Video
Ensemble Video has been selected for campus-wide deployment at Clemson University. Ensemble was selected through a bid process for a "video content management system " -- the final selection was made on September 19th. Clemson has developed a sophisticated Internet video architecture, and Ensemble Video will be a crucial component of that architecture. Clemson is a public research university of 17,000 students located in South Carolina.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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September 21, 2009
Syracuse, NY - Pepperdine University purchases a MediaPOINTE Ensemble Server
Pepperdine University has purchased a MediaPOINTE Ensemble Server from Symphony Video OEM partner, Advanced Media Design. The MediaPOINTE server is considered an Internet "appliance," which is a pre-configured, easy-to-manage server which has Ensemble Video pre-installed. Pepperdine acquired an enterprise appliance that enables unlimited, campus-wide use. Pepperdine University enrolls 8,300 students and is located on the University’s 830-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
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July 21, 2009
Syracuse, NY - New York State K-12 Ensemble Video Use Continues to Grow
Several IT service providers, which are funded by the New York State Department of Education and serve dozens of K-12 school districts, are now providing Ensemble Video to all their component school districts. Together, they expect to grow use quickly across major portions of the State. The Central New York Regional Information Center, Lower Hudson Regional Information Center, and Mohawk Regional Information Center are all hosting Ensemble Video for component school districts, and all expect more districts to sign up for the service in the coming year. In elementary and secondary education, video is used for instruction, community outreach, internal communication, student experiential video, and many other useful applications.
Annese and Associates is the exclusive Ensemble Video reseller for K-12 educational institutions in New York.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Symphony Video, Inc.
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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October 1, 2008
Ensemble Video Signs OEM Agreement with Advanced Media Design
Syracuse, N.Y. — Symphony Video, Inc. is pleased to announce that Advanced Media Design (AMD) will sell Ensemble Video content management software on a server appliance in its award-winning MediaPOINTE line of digital media capture and streaming devices (http://www.everythingavoverip.com/products.htm). This integrated, state-of-the-art product suite can be used to create a very cost-effective, automated video media capture, streaming, and publishing solution.
The MediaPOINTE Ensemble Server is a great option for organizations that don't have IT support staff available to manage Ensemble and media server software on in-house servers.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Ensemble Video
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234
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May 22, 2008
GreeningUSA Uses Ensemble Video to Promote Green Initiatives
Syracuse, N.Y. — A collaborative effort developed in Central New York—involving Ensemble Video, a patent-pending enterprise video content management software system developed by Symphony Video, a Syracuse University technology start-up company, Syracuse University and the Central New York Community Foundation—made it possible for GreeningUSA, a 501 (c)(3) membership association headquartered in Central New York, to accelerate the promotion of its green initiatives through video. This collaboration is unique in the United States.
The collaboration debuted when Syracuse Mayor Matthew Driscoll and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney addressed the annual meeting of GreeningUSA at the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, during which they discussed the city and county's current efforts and future planning in terms of environmental and economical sustainability to improve our community. This and other events are available at the GreeningUSA (www.greeningusa.org) and CNY Video Showcase (www.cnyvs.com) Web sites.
Mark Naef, president of GreeningUSA and founder of Naef Recycling, CNY's largest independent recycling center, is excited to announce "that the entire meeting for the first time ever will be made available to all of Central New York with Ensemble Video—a Web-based video initiative that enables people to share information without the barriers of distance and time." Ensemble Video (http://www.ensemblevideo.com/), a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model, is ideal for organizations that want to manage video on their media servers and within their own computing environment.Ensemble integrates well with a wide range of video technologies.
About GreeningUSA
GreeningUSA Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) membership association headquartered in Central New York. The organization promotes green and sustainable living, and encourages local economic development that balances energy consumption, environmental protection and social equity.
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Ensemble Video
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
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May 20, 2008
Ensemble Video Gains More Publishing Flexibility
Syracuse, N.Y. — Symphony Video Inc. has announced the general availability of Ensemble Video 2.0, a patent-pending enterprise video content management software system developed at Syracuse University. Ensemble Video (http://www.ensemblevideo.com/), a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model, is for organizations that want to manage video on their media servers and within their own computing environment. Ensemble integrates well with a wide range of video technologies.
“The Ensemble Video integration enables organizations additional flexibility for sharing and publishing captured video content from TANDBERG’s Content Server to internal and external Web sites,” says Peter Nutley, director of global product marketing, TANDBERG. “We are excited about the Ensemble Video interoperability with TANDBERG’s Content Server.”
A simple publishing API allows Web developers to customize the viewer interface for any Web site where Ensemble Video is published. The same publishing API can be used to integrate video content with proprietary content management systems, portals, learning management systems and other Web applications. Flash Video is now supported in Ensemble Video, along with other media types including Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, MPEG4, MPEG2 and MP3.
Ensemble Video users now have a “watch directory” import option that increases publishing flexibility for high-volume batch encoding, importing content from external sources, and easy integration with other video technologies. The watch directory can be set up to monitor network-accessible media directories so, as media and metadata files (XML shadow files) are added, new video entries are automatically created in Ensemble Video libraries.
“Ensemble integration with our TANDBERG videoconferencing workflow makes it easy to manage video content that gets distributed to multiple Web sites, including authenticated Blackboard and Pharmacy College Web sites, and our more public iTunes, Continuing Education and Pharmacy College Web sites,” says Sarah Wardlaw Jones, program coordinator for the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. “With this new infrastructure, we are poised to handle the expected increase of video to the Web applications.”
About Symphony Video Inc.
Symphony Video Inc. develops Internet video archiving and distribution software and services. Ensemble Video is an enterprise publishing and sharing video content management software platform for those organizations that want to manage videos in their own environment. Ensemble Video addresses enterprise video challenges with a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model.
For a more complete product overview, please visit http://www.ensemblevideo.com/.
Ensemble Video is a registered trademark of Symphony Video Inc.
About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL.
Please visit http://www.tandberg.com/ for more information.
For more information on TANDBERG’s Content Server, visit http://www.tandberg.com/media/index.jsp?id=1296.
TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries.
About the University of GeorgiaThe University of Georgia, a land-grant and sea-grant university with state-wide commitments and responsibilities, is the state's flagship institution of higher education. The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy offers the Doctor of Pharmacy professional degree. Based in Athens, Georgia, and affiliated with the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, the college admits about 125 students a year. The four-year professional program integrates classroom, laboratory and experiential training in a curriculum organized around both human physiology and disease states. The college also offers graduate studies in disciplines associated with pharmacotherapeutic research, clinical work and administration.All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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For more information, please contact:
Bill Bullen
Ensemble Video
bbullen@ensemblevideo.com
(315) 378-0234