Through a new third-party product, Local Motion Portal, SAFARI Montage now provides a familiar, web-based interface with thumbnails that enables districts to publish video content for anyone in the world to access. This public access is achieved through the integration between SAFARI Montage CreationStation®, Managed Home Access (MHA) and the Local Motion Portal, which makes it easy for anyone to view recorded school board meetings, special holiday celebrations, professional development, fundraising campaigns, graduations and more. The Local Motion Portal does not require a login; therefore, it provides a tangible connection with the community.
The Local Motion Portal utilizes the metadata created in SAFARI Montage, but it also provides the ability to be edited independently on the portal. It uses thumbnail images, keyword searching, highlighted titles and searching by various criteria (i.e., most recent, by topic, grade level, school, school group).
SAFARI Montage is the exclusive, authorized reseller of Local Motion in the K-20 educational market.
HOW IT WORKS
1
UPLOAD
Upload your video to SAFARI Montage through CreationStation.
2
EDIT
Add metadata (title, description, grade range and subject references) and set distribution rights.
3
VERIFY
Use the automatically generated thumbnail for your video or upload your own image.
4
PUBLISH
Click the "Publish to Local Motion Portal" button to share your video on the Internet.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- SAFARI Montage CreationStation Module
- Dedicated Server
- SAFARI Montage Managed Home Access Module
FEATURES
- Easy and Reliable Playback
- Flash Player and HTML5 playback
- Progressive download
- No login required
- Works on dedicated server
- Simple, easy-to-use interface
- Sorted by topic
- Multiple searches
- Ability for each school to custom "skin" or "theme" their player and site with colors and logos
Multi-Format Auto-Converter
- Uploaders no longer have to create two files
- With the SAFARI Montage Multi-Format Auto-Converter, school districts can save significant time, effort and money when converting source video to the perfect standard for home access and mobile device support.
