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all over the world.

The Multimedia Department at RRZE (the University IT service provider) has a long history of using professional lecture capture technology, and the first lecture capture video was published in 2002 [2]. In 2009, RRZE announced the launch of an online web video platform [3] as the official publication channel for all University video material. Today the department has one manager, four employees for capture and editing, two employees for team and management administration, one developer, and five to six student assistants every semester. The video portal hosts more than 18,000 educational resources online.
<img src="assets/img/pic_1.jpg">

![Video editting room](assets/img/2015-05-01-friedrich-alexander-university-erlangen-nuremberg/video-editting.png)

## Why did you decide to use Opencast?
<img src="assets/img/pic_3.png">

FAU’s IT service provider, RRZE, showed great interest from the first steps of Opencast software starting with version 0.5. The need to extend the current infrastructure was clear, while the option of reducing the workload of the staff needed for capture, editing and publishing was really tempting. There were four main reasons for testing and finally choosing the Opencast software:

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- Same quality and encodings, such as the files being processed by professional video editing software (FinalCut Pro)
- Intro-outro videos for all video-audio formats Picture 1

<img src="assets/img/pic_4.jpg">
![Video portal default combined layout](assets/img/2015-05-01-friedrich-alexander-university-erlangen-nuremberg/default-combined-layout.png)
Picture 1
Video portal default combined layout. Post editing with Adobe Photoshop and Finalcut Pro

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This winter semester 2015/2016, a clip [4] was produced exclusively by Opencast 2.0.1 and captured with Galicaster 1.4.1. The combined video file used dynamic Opencast metadata rendering.

<img src="assets/img/pic_5.png">
![Depiction of the watermarking process](assets/img/2015-05-01-friedrich-alexander-university-erlangen-nuremberg/watermark-process.png)

## Hardware-software description
Opencast Ubuntu 14.04 server nodes (October 2015)
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+ Nagios and munin monitoring

Capture agents
Capture agents:
5 Galicaster CA1.4.1 (with Ubuntu 12.04) and 4 NCast PR-720M

Depending on the layout of the room, we have different capture agents set up with a mix of automatic and scheduled recordings.
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([email protected], +49 9131 8520190)

Michael Gräve, RRZE Multimedia and E-learning
([email protected], +49 9131 8528898, 8529953 )
([email protected], +49 9131 8528898, 8529953)

## References
[1] http://fau.de
[2] http://www.video.uni-erlangen.de/clip/id/231
[3] http://www.fau.tv
[4] http://www.video.uni-erlangen.de/clip/id/5528.html

1. <https://fau.de>
2. <https://video.uni-erlangen.de/clip/id/231>
3. <https://fau.tv>
4. <https://video.uni-erlangen.de/clip/id/5528.html>
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