Product Release Notes

Below are recent product updates for July-September 2022

Video Cloud

Feature: CMS API - delete image

Product Area: APIs

Date: 30-September-2022

Description: New endpoint for deleting an image of any kind. Also removed deprecated endpoints for deleting poster and thumbnail

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Feature: New version of AEM connector

Product Area: Integrations

Date: 30-September-2022

Description: Added info on the 6.0.1 release of the connector

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Feature: Sitecore Connector

Product Area: Integrations

Date: 23-September-2022

Description: Posted information about releases 10.1.2 and 10.1.3

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Feature: Major new release of AEM connector

Product Area: CMS Connectors

Date: 16-September-2022

Description: Major new release for both on-premise and cloud-based AEM connector. New features include support for labels, clips, sub-folders, video scheduling, and playlist creation in AEM.

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Feature: Ingest video transcripts

Product Area: Dynamic Ingest API, Transcripts

Date: 9-September-2022

Description: Ingest transcripts for your videos.

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Feature: New release with support for several additional video features

Product Area: CMS Connectors

Date: 9-September-2022

Description: New major release with several added features

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Date: 29-July-2022

Description: Complete set of Gallery Virtual Event Documentation

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Feature: Image API

Product Area: Platform APIs

Date: 22-July-2022

Description: The Image API allows you to retrieve a resized, cropped, or rotated version of an image. Open to Beacon customers as well as Video Cloud.

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Feature: Players, Experiences, Multi-lingual Metadata

Product Area: Sitecore Connector

Date: 22-July-2022

Description: Major new features including working with in-page experiences and players in Sitecore, and support for multi-lingual variants for video metadata

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Feature: Video Transcripts

Product Area: CMS API, Playback API

Date: 15-July-2022

Description: New transcript file generated during auto-captioning and added to videos

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Brightcove Player

Feature: Add a bumper before content video playback

Product Area: Playback

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to implement bumper videos, that is videos that play before the main content video.

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Feature: Implementation of Short Manifest TTL

Product Area: Content Protection

Date: 1-July-2022

Description: Short Manifest TTL feature information added

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Device SDKs

Feature: iOS SDK support for iOS 16

Product Area: Native SDK for iOS

Date: 16-September-2022

Description: Native SDK for iOS support for iOS 16

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Feature: Android SDK release 7.1.1

Product Area: Native SDK for Android

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: Native SDK for Android release 7.1.1

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Feature: Android SDK release 7.1.0

Product Area: Native SDKs for Android

Date: 26-August-2022

Description: Android SDK release 7.1.0

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Feature: iOS/tvOS SDK release 6.10.6

Product Area: Native SDK for iOS

Date: 8-July-2022

Description: Native SDK for iOS/tvOS release 6.10.6

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Feature: Android SDK release 7.0.1

Product Area: Native SDKs for Android

Date: 8-July-2022

Description: Android SDK release 7.0.1

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Live

Feature: New passphrase field for SRT captions

Product Area: Live API

Date: 30-September-2022

Description: Add new passphrase field for SRT captions

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Feature: Low latency streaming

Product Area: Live Streaming

Date: 19-August-2022

Description: Added fields for low latency

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Feature: Low Latency streaming now available in the Live module

Product Area: Live module

Date: 19-August-2022

Description: Added information on using low latency streaming

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Feature: Audio-only live streams

Product Area: Audio only

Date: 29-July-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to create audio-only live streams.

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Beacon

Feature: Redirect Page Layout

Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 30-September-2022

Description: Update that redirect page layout works with web, iOS and Android

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Feature: Page layout redirects to web page

Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 16-September-2022

Description: Added new page layout Redirect

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Feature: Role-Based Access Control in Beacon Studio

Product Area: Role-Based Access Control

Date: 9-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to present content to viewers based on their assigned roles. You will manage roles in your external VMS and Brightcove Beacon Studio

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Feature: Pages as playlist assets

Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to create secondary pages and add them to playlists. This gives you the option to have an asset in a playlist that when clicked shows a new page.

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Feature: Basics of secondary pages

Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to create, delete and edit secondary pages.

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Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to use templates and jobs to generate data reports needed for various platforms search implementations.

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Feature: Using secondary pages as view all pages

Product Area: Managing Pages

Date: 2-September-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to create, delete and edit default and custom view all pages. A view all page is used when the number of videos in a carousel meets a maximum threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, a View All link is displayed and when the link is clicked by the customer a new page appears displaying all videos, for instance in a grid.

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Feature: Creating TVOD plans in Beacon Classic

Product Area: Monetization

Date: 26-August-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to create a TVOD monetization package.

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Feature: Assigning TVOD plans in Beacon Studio and Beacon Classic

Product Area: Monetization

Date: 26-August-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to assign a TVOD monetization package to media content.

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Feature: Demo apps for customer testing

Product Area: Apps

Date: 12-August-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to access demo apps that have been setup for testing.

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Feature: Roles as Rights in Beacon CMS

Product Area: Roles as Rights

Date: 15-July-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to present content to viewers based on their assigned roles. You will manage roles in your external VMS and the Brightcove Beacon CMS.

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Feature: Stripe custom metadata

Product Area: Monetization

Date: 8-July-2022

Description: In this topic, you will learn how to retrieve subscription information associated with Stripe custom metadata using the Stripe API.

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SSAI

Zencoder

CorpTV

Audience Insights