You can read more about Clemson’s Ensemble Video implementation on the Ensemble Video blog.

Ranked the 23rd best national public university by U.S. News and World Report, Clemson University is a co-educational research university located in the foothills of South Carolina. Clemson’s five colleges serve more than 15,000 undergraduate students across a broad range of degree programs.

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.

In 2010, Ensemble Video was the recipient of a Campus Technology Innovators Award for its Ensemble Video enterprise video content management platform and its automated media workflow systems.

Polycom videoconferencing end points are being used to share all classroom sessions in real time, and the Polycom RSS 4000 also records all the sessions as MP4/H.264 video files. That video content is automatically imported into Ensemble Video where it is cataloged and published to the North Georgia State for on-demand student access. This is the first end-to-end integration of the Ensemble Video and Polycom platforms.

Polycom has been known for many years as a leading supplier of videoconference technology, and through its current telepresence, video, voice, and network solutions, Polycom enables the highest quality collaboration among people at a distance.

North Georgia State College and University is Georgia’s second oldest university, and the Georgia board of regents has designated North Georgia as a Georgia Leadership Institution. It has over 5,00 students and is surrounded by the Chattahoochee National Forest in Dahlonega, Georgia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Annese and Associates is the exclusive Ensemble Video reseller for K-12 educational institutions in New York.

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.