Boost Your Distance Learning Initiatives with Matrox Encoding Appliances

Going back to school may look a bit different this year, but rest assured, Matrox has you covered. Matrox encoding appliances make the transition to online and distance learning easy and affordable. Record video and audio of professors and presenters, and combine it with supporting material so that viewers can view or replay lessons on their own time. Matrox encoders also enable you to extend video management system (VMS) capabilities for lecture and presentation capture, and distribute content via popular platforms such as Facebook Live and YouTube.

Matrox Encoding Appliances for Higher Education

Matrox Monarch LCS

•Dual-channel, dual-input H.264 encoder for lecture capture applications and more

•Record master-quality video to the destination of your choice while streaming

•Supported VMS’ include Ensemble Video, Kaltura, Presentations2Go, TechSmith Relay, and more

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$2,495.00 MSRP

Matrox Maevex 6020
Remote Recorder

•Panopto-certified dual HD live streaming with multi-recording

•Recording, streaming, scheduling, and more directly controlled via Panopto VMS

•Quiet, reliable, and small 1U, ½ rack appliance

•Administrator friendly – easy to set and forget

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$2,799.00 MSRP

10% Off Any Wirecast Gear Purchase to qualifying schools and universities

Wirecast Gear 310 Academic

Add a live video broadcasting system to your production with the Wirecast Gear 310 Professional Video Streaming System from Telestream. The 2 RU 310 features a powerful Xeon server architecture, high-resolution graphics card, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, 250GB system drive, and 1TB storage hard drive to store up to 20 hours of HD video. 

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MPN: WCG2-310-EDU

$5,995.00 MSRP
10% Academic Discount
$5,395.00 EDU MSRP

Wirecast Gear 320 Academic

Add a live video broadcasting system to your production with the Wirecast Gear 320 Professional Video Streaming System from Telestream. The 2 RU 320 features a powerful Xeon server architecture, high-resolution graphics card, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, 250GB system drive, and 1TB storage hard drive to store up to 20 hours of HD video.

#WCGEAR320EDU
MPN: WCG2-320-EDU

$6,995.00 MSRP
10% Academic Discount
$6,295.00 MSRP

Wirecast Gear 420 Academic

Add a live video broadcasting system to your production with the Wirecast Gear 420 Professional Video Streaming System from Telestream. The 2 RU 420 features a powerful Xeon server architecture, high-resolution graphics card, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, 250GB system drive, and 1TB storage hard drive to store up to 20 hours of HD video.

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MPN: WCG2-420-EDU

$8,995.00 MSRP
10% Academic Discount
$8,095.00 MSRP

The annual NAB event always affords School Video News the opportunity to meet our partners and learn in depth what they are doing to help the education market.

This year we spent time with George Klippel, Director of Channel Sales for LiveU.

1. Can you tell us more about LiveU’s education programs and the LiveU value for both university’s and students?

LiveU is committed to education and doing our part to help prepare students for their career once they graduate. LiveU offers great educational pricing, training, online student and faculty certification courses, an internship program and much more. But our real value for schools and students is all about using the technology being used in the real world. LiveU has about 80% of the market for bonded cellular worldwide. That means if your students go to work for CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, Bloomberg and many, many others, you will be working with LiveU equipment. Knowing how to use LiveU and working with our software gives you an edge over those who haven’t had a chance to use our technology during the hiring process. The operation managers have added confidence that you don’t need additional training on the technology, just on their internal processes and that’s a huge advantage in today’s marketplace.

2. Can you tell us about LiveU products and how universities are using the technology?

LiveU offers products for schools and Universities of all sizes. From High School multimedia classes, to Community College and four-year Universities. The most popular configuration we offer is our LU200 field unit. It has 4 cellular modem connections plus Wi-Fi and Ethernet. This unit sends the stream to a LU2000 server which comes in a single, dual or quad configuration. Once the server receives the feed it can send it out to your router as an SDI signal, NDI and RTMP. The server also supports traditional IFB so you can communicate from your control room to your talent or camera operator. We’ve also put together some educational bundles that are very popular which feature the LU200 unit, the LU500 and our brand new LU6000 HEVC unit. These bundles include everything you need, the unit, server, transmission data plan and our LU-Smart application for contribution from your Android or iPhone’s. These bundles have been very popular as well. The most common uses for our systems in Universities are in Journalism and Communication programs, Athletics, Public Relations and advanced degree programs where streaming special events or guest lectures are important.

3. How are universities using the technology for special events and milestones such as commencements this spring?

This is one of the most popular uses of LiveU gear. Most schools do multi-camera shoots for commencement and other special events. They want to output to screens in an auditorium and to the webpage or a CDN for those who can’t attend the event in person. The setups vary widely from gymnasiums or indoor or outdoor stadiums, to concert halls. Some locations will not have any internet connectivity available to them and LiveU is used to provide that connectivity for the stream. …read more

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology has become an Avid Media Campus site standardizing on Avid’s platform-based workflows across its eight campuses to ensure students college-wide can learn on the leading technologies and tools for film and television creation, production, and distribution. This includes the Avid Learning Partner Program, which provides the curriculum and associated materials to enable Seneca to train its students to become Avid Certified.

Avid Media Campus schools get significant education discounts on all Avid products. As one of Canada’s premiere institutions for higher learning in media creation and production, Seneca’s School of Media earned its reputation through its commitment to giving students first-hand experience with technology. The school gives instruction in a range of disciplines, including Film and TV, Broadcast and Journalism, as well as web-based multimedia and video, and provides access to media industry leaders and highly sought-after experience in professional settings where knowledge of Avid tools and solutions ensures opportunities for students to stand out.

“The Avid Media Campus program will allow us to plan where we will be in the next five years,” says Adrian Klymenko, Senior Media Specialist and Avid Certified Support Representative (ACSR) at Seneca. “Avid’s commitment to support, training, and hardware and software licensing models has allowed us to establish an upgrade pathway for our studios, suites, classrooms, and supporting infrastructure. Having a unified support structure — complete with ACSR certifications and access to Avid Professional Services — makes for a smooth process and transition for planning and implementing hardware and software upgrades, including any day-to-day technical or operational issues that may arise.”…read more

Matrox Monarch H.264 Streaming and Recording Appliances Feed High-Quality Video to the Ensemble Video Distribution Platform

Dealers if you have a University opportunity call your Broadfield Sales Rep to see if it qualifies for our new Monarch LCS / Ensemble 30-day evaluation program.

MONTREAL – November 21, 2016 — Matrox® today announced that technology partner, Ensemble Video, now supports the Matrox Monarch LCS lecture capture appliance on their online video management and distribution platform. The Monarch LCS H.264 encoding appliance serves as a powerful capture-and-encode node, providing bandwidth-sparing, high-quality video to the Ensemble solution.

The Ensemble Video platform streamlines video capture, management, and publishing, enabling institutions and corporations and around the world to deliver accessible media content anytime, over a variety of networks. Offering unique value-adds including CMS/LMS integrations, automated lecture capture, simple screen capture, and analytics, the Ensemble platform is built to grow with user needs, empowering the user to create an open, flexible, and scalable digital media ecosystem.

Generating H.264-encoded video streams at bitrates up to 30 Mbps, the Monarch LCS has powerful scaling, deinterlacing, and noise-reduction engines, sending only pristine images to the internal encoders for simultaneous streaming and recording. When streaming, the encoders use either RTMP or RTSP protocols to deliver live streams to local or cloud-based media servers. When recording, the encoders write MP4 or MOV files to local USB drives, SD cards, or network-mapped drives for post-event editing or archiving.

 The Monarch LCS allows simultaneous dual-input for those seeking the value-add of capturing two sources from the same location, particularly valuable for lecture halls, corporate presentations, or any place a dual camera set-up or a camera and computer source need to be encoded simultaneously.

“Ensemble Video and Matrox share a belief that video technologies should be simple, powerful, and affordable,” said Andy Covell, chief executive officer of Ensemble Video. “The newest integration of Ensemble Studio with the Matrox Monarch LCS is a significant step forward for our combined customers as it provides a straightforward lecture capture and video management solution for any organization, in any industry. In locations where a single input is required, the Monarch HD offers a robust yet cost-effective option for encoding conference rooms, observation areas, medical training, or houses of worship.”

As standalone devices, Monarch appliances can be incrementally deployed across a building, a campus, or a wider network, adding streaming when and where it may be needed. Likewise, with options including a cloud-hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), a self-hosted video platform installed behind a firewall, or a hybrid variation of the two, Ensemble Video offers a diverse set of flexible deployment options tailored to meet specific organizational needs.

“At this point, high quality streaming video isn’t just wanted, it’s expected,” said Francesco Scartozzi, director of sales (Americas), Matrox. “Whether we’re talking about higher-education, enterprise, or government, Matrox Monarch LCS with the Ensemble Studio platform offers a powerful and flexible, yet cost-effective solution for both scheduled and ad-hoc lecture and meeting capture.”

About Ensemble Video

Ensemble Video is a flexible video platform that simplifies capture, management and delivery of video any time, over a variety of networks. Ensemble Video enables hundreds of progressive organizations across the globe to accelerate learning, increase viewer engagement, improve knowledge sharing, and reduce the cost of doing business. Ensemble Video offers self-hosted, cloud-hosted, hybrid-hosted and multi-tenant deployments, designed to work in concert with a wide range of complementary video and web technologies.