Video & Media Import and Upload Widget (Contribution Wizard)

Fully customizable content ingestion wizard, enabling end users to upload and import media from various sources.

Kaltura’s ingestion engine allows users to add videos, photos, and audio files in a wide variety of formats. The engine is extremely flexible and easy to customize, allowing publishers to include different features and functionalities such as:

• Rich-media upload from computer.
• Rich-media import from different media sources.
• Social Media access – users can access their personal accounts on various leading sites and directly import their media (YouTube, Flickr, company folders etc.).
• Import media from any site.
• Record media from Webcam and Microphone.
• Users add tags and keywords to their media as part of the upload/import process, for better search and SEO.
• Multiple file upload/import – users can select to add one file or multiple files per session. Publishers can also bulk-upload multiple files via FTP.
• Kaltura Network – publishers and/or users can choose to import/export content from/to partners on the Kaltura Network, the world’s largest network of legally remixable rich-media content.
• File conversion and transcoding – Kaltura automatically converts files into FLV format, so that multiple videos can be remixed together. Supports more than 50 video and image formats + 130 video and audio codecs.
• Control the level and workflow of encoding, including HD support.
• Digitization – publishers can offer their users to digitize content from 8mm, 16mm, and VHS tapes.