Intranet Video Processing in Claromentis
With the growing trend to offer videos as intranet content, especially noticeable recently for some of our manufacturing clients who have learnt that showing a trained engineer performing a task is a great way to train new staff in certain procedures – the issue of managing such videos within the intranet is becoming a hot topic.
Clearly we can enable the FCK editor to embed a pre-prepared flv ( Flash video file ).
However with the many recent enhancements in the intranet image management application of Claromentis, “Image Gallery” - which manages collections of images and allows processing on download to appropriate file sizes - we are now considering enhancing this application to provide a youtube like environment natively within the corporate intranet.
We would do this by embedding a video processing unit within the system, so a video originating from anywhere ( Camcorder, iPhone, normal mobiles for example ) can be uploaded directly – and the system will convert and compress it to flv – and allow the user to set appropriate meta data as required.
These converted videos will of course be hosted within the intranet and its security systems – and available for embedding on publish pages in exactly the same way as images are now.
This is a reasonably significant task and before we add it the roadmap does anyone have any comments on how useful this would be?
