There is no single listing of uploaded assets in the Media module, as there was in the Brightcove Console. You can, however, access thumbnails, video stills, logo overlays and bumper videos that you created in the Console. When you edit a video's properties, you can access lists of the appropriate asset type to assign as images, bumpers or logo overlays to your videos.
Yes, you can view and edit titles you create through batch upload as videos in the Media Library in the Media module. You can also manage videos you add using the Media API create_video method.
Reporting on dynamic delivery renditions is not available in this release of Brightcove. You can get reports by video, but these are not broken down by rendition.
In this release of Brightcove Studio, you can view a video's dynamic delivery renditions in the Details pane of the Media module and you can replace all renditions with a single video file, but you cannot replace multiple renditions using the Media module. You can do so using batch provisioning.
Brightcove offers three different methods for uploading videos to your Brightcove media library:
You can use the Media module to bookmark your most-used playlists as favorites in your account. You should use favorites for playlists that you edit frequently, so that you can drag and drop videos from your media library into these playlists. This is an account-wide setting, so other users in your account can have an impact on your favorites list.
A playlist is an ordered group of videos. A playlist can be a manual playlist, to which you explicitly assign videos, or a smart playlist, which is constructed automatically based on video tags or other video properties.The term playlist replaces the term lineup, as used in the Brightcove Console.
A video is composed of a video file, some metadata (such as a name, short description, tags, scheduling information, etc), and potentially some images (such as thumbnail or video still) or a bumper. The term video replaces the term title, as used in the Brightcove Console. In the Brightcove Studio workflow model, you no longer need to create a set of assets and assemble them into a title, as you did in the Brightcove Console.
Multi-bitrate streaming improves a viewer's experience by enabling you to deliver videos with the resolution and bit rate that best matches the viewer's connection speed. When you upload a non-VP6 video file, you can choose for Brightcove to transcode your master video file into six different VP6 or H.264 files, each with a different bit rate and size. The Brightcove player automatically selects the highest quality rendition that the viewer's download connection speed can support, taking into account the rendition's resolution and bit rate. In previous releases, we referred to as "dynamic delivery."
The maximum file size for videos you upload with the Media module is 2 GB. To upload larger files, use FTP batch upload.
Brightcove players can play back VP6 (FLV) or H.264 (MP4) format files. When you upload a non-VP6, non-H.264 source file, Brightcove transcodes the file into your choice of VP6 or H.264. When you upload an H.264 file, you can choose to leave it as H.264 or have Brightcove transcode it to VP6.
You can upload video files in these formats: 3g2, 3gp, asf (streaming for Windows Media Player), avi, dv, flv (VP6), mov (QuickTime multimedia), mp4 (H.264), mpeg, mpg (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2), qt (QuickTime), wmv (Windows Media Video). Video files must be no larger than 2 GB.
You can use the Quick Video Publish feature in the Media module to quickly publish a single video. Using Quick Video Publish, you select a video in the Media module, click a link, and immediately get the publishing code you need to publish the video in a single-video player in a web page.
Changes you make to your playlists details in the Media module go live immediately after saving your playlist. If you are adding or removing videos from existing playlists using drag-and-drop, then the changes go live immediately.
Anamorphic widescreen uses rectangular pixels to store a widescreen image to standard 4:3 aspect ratio. So, while the image looks like a widescreen 16:9 video, its true aspect ratio is 4:3. When Brightcove transcodes your videos, we maintain the same aspect ratio as the source file. However, if you want a 16:9 aspect ratio, you need to make sure that your source video uses a true 16:9 aspect ratio, and not an anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio, which will be transcoded as 4:3.
The preview feature in the Media module is strictly a preview of the video file. The video preview does not include the logo overlay or bumper applied to the video.