Recording & Streaming

The School has two systems that provide lecture capture capabilities for classes and special events. For more information about using lecture capture in the classroom, please contact Maggie Wiggin (mr2826@columbia.edu), Assoc. Director of Educational Operational Analysis. If you'd like to use lecture capture for a special event, please contact Kevin Jasper (kej2120@columbia.edu) or Eduardo Colon (ec2853@columbia.edu) with AV support.

Mediasite

The Mediasite capture station and server system automates the capture and delivery of multimedia presentations combining audio, video, projected visuals, web links, audience polls, and lecture chapter markers. A recorded Mediasite presentation can be posted online for on-demand viewing immediately after a lecture's conclusion. The system allows for post-production editing including removal of slides and sections of video. This editing flexibility is vital if there are copyright issues in the live presentation. Presentation files can also be burned to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Online presentations can be made public or require a login. Delivery is via Microsoft Silverlight.

Other features include:

Flexibility of the recording location (w/portable version)
Record on-demand presentations for users to watch at any time
Provide a rich-media live stream to off-site viewers
Searchable catalog of your collection of recordings
Navigation by thumbnails, chapters, and DVD-style controls
Links to additional resources, polls, Q&A
Options to produce as an audio-only or video-only format, audio with synchronized projected visuals, and a full rich-media presentation with audio, video, and projected visuals

The 11th Floor Conference room has a built-in Mediasite recorder (ARB), but there is also a portable Mediasite recorder available for loan. Please contact Kevin Jasper (kej2120@columbia.edu) or Eduardo Colon (ec2853@columbia.edu) in AV for details.

Echo360

Echo 360 is a lecture capture solution that provides automated recording, but with limited editing ability. It records a presentation's audio, video, and projected visuals and delivers them online as: streaming rich-media Flash presentation, audio with slides (H.264 format for iTunes), and audio only (.mp3). Chapter markers allow viewers to jump to points of interest within a presentation. Presentation files can be burned to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Echo 360 is best suited for recording lecture series or courses. Unlike Mediasite, Echo does not have live streaming capabilities.

Additional features:

Sets semester-long schedules based on date, time, classroom and instructor. Schedules can also be driven by EchoSystem scheduling APIs.
Transforms recorded AAC course audio and H.264 video and VGA sources into ready-to-play rich media and podcasts.
Accepts video intros, watermarks, logos, even copyright information to recordings as needed.
Delivers links of sessions to popular systems like Blackboard®, Moodle, ANGEL, and iTunes U out of the box. Using the EchoSystem publishing SDK, institutions can also publish lecture recordings to any custom portal or website.

Echo 360 is available in the School's Auditorium in ARB.

* Text excerpted from Sonic Foundry, Echo 360 and California Institute of Technology Web sites.