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Opencast is a flexible, scalable and reliable video capture, management, and distribution system for academic institutions. Opencast is built by a growing community of developers from leading universities and organizations worldwide.
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{% include fullsizebox.html title="Schedule" description="Schedule events to automatically record based on a pre-defined timetable and capture both video(s) of the presenter and the computer signal." image="assets/img/schedule.png" linkurl="software" align="left" backgroundcolor=site.data.colors.box %}
{% include fullsizebox.html title="Edit" description="Bulk edit and trim video recordings. The UI provides graphical visualization of standard edits and can therefore significantly reduce editing time." image="assets/img/edit.png" linkurl="software" align="right" %}
{% include fullsizebox.html title="Process" description="A scalable infrastructure to encode video, generate metadata and preview images, create captioning and bulk edit to support video processing at scale." image="assets/img/events.png" linkurl="software" align="left" backgroundcolor=site.data.colors.box %}
{% include fullsizebox.html title="Distribute" description="Publish recordings for download or on-demand viewing via YouTube, RSS, Atom-feeds or with OAI-PMH." image="assets/img/distribute.png" linkurl="software" align="right" %}
{% include fullsizebox.html title="Playback" description="The media player is a standalone application or embedded on blogs, wikis or a content management system." image="assets/img/playback.png" linkurl="software" align="left" backgroundcolor=site.data.colors.box %}
{% include fullsizebox.html title="Manage" description="A robust dashboard to manage, configure and track the status and performance of video content and distribution channels." image="assets/img/manage.png" linkurl="software" align="right" %}
Opencast has an active, helpful and engaging community. Here you can find information on how to get in contact with us.