Video Management

The popularity of video content on the web continues to accelerate, with a wide range of rich, content-driven sites becoming more accessible and desirable as broadband availability expands. With Third Light, it is possible to store, search and manage photography, documents and video in a single system, saving time and keeping costs down.

Streaming Video Previews

IMS offers streaming video previews in the browser, including audio. The video functionality includes play, pause and navigation with the clip. In addition to these functions, IMS can optionally limit the duration of the video, or add a customisable, visible watermark to prevent unauthorised use of the video clip.

Static Video Previews

IMS also supports video content in a unique interface where frames are extracted as still images, providing a grid of "at a glance" previews of the moving image content of files. This approach is e-commerce friendly, since the video itself need not be displayed in a cut-down or watermarked version prior to purchase, but the buyer can still easily judge the materials within the video prior to placing an order.

Compared to streaming the video in the browser, this approach saves time and bandwidth: it avoids a large download and also gives an immediate overview of the entire clip, especially useful where familiarity with the media is not guaranteed.

IMS video support is available with IMS Appliances, and is designed to support the most popular video types such as AVI, WMV and MPEG. As new standards emerge, additional codecs are added as part of our support package.