Related Product(s): Odaptor, UGC, Review and Approval

The Challenge

User generated content (UGC) can come from hundreds of different devices including mobile phones, cameras, and web cams.  Varying formats, bit rates, and frame rates, make it by far the most challenging content to handle and convert.  Just getting the content from users can be challenging as well.  Many off the shelf transcoding software packages are difficult to integrate into web site workflows and cannot scale easily to meet fluctuating capacity demands.  Managing and resolving broken, mislabeled, and corrupt user submissions can also be a full time job.  The next big thing on the Internet could be sitting in your failed job queue.

The Solution

Origin Digital provides a turn-key solution for handling UGC.   Accepting UGC on your web site is simple with Odaptor.  Our upload manager can be customized and easily integrated into your website in seconds, allowing you to accept any video, audio, or image content from your users.  All user submitted content will be automatically conformed to the same video publishing standards as your professionally produced content.  Want to review UGC before publishing to your website?  No problem, Odaptor's Review and Approval module lets you decide what gets published and what doesn't.

Adaptable Transcoding
The Odaptor service has a high success rate for transcoding content submitted to our service, including UGC.  Our proprietary media interrogation process allows Odaptor to automatically detect properties like bit rates, size, format, incorrect extensions, and low frame rates.  Encoding profiles are dynamically adjusted to compensate, dramatically increasing our ability to process all types of content.  If content is corrupt, our 24/7/365 support team of experience video encoders are available to resolve issues without impacting your workflow.

Instant Publishing
Content submitted to the Odaptor service will be automatically transcoded, delivered, and published to your website.  Encoding profiles are defined within the user interface and allow you to specify any number of outputs (video, audio, and thumbnails).  With minimal set up, your website can automatically publish the video, audio, and images created by Odaptor.

Video Branding
Protect your content by permanently branding it with your company logo.  All transcoded videos submitted to Odaptor can have a transparent watermark of your choice applied automatically.  This ensures that your brand is protected even if the video goes viral and ends up on competitive portals.

Outsourced Transcoding
Content can be transparently submitted to Odaptor via web browser or FTP with associated metadata.  This allows your web site to fully automate and outsource the transcoding of both user submitted and professionally produced content.  Real-time reporting allows administrators to track receipt, encoding, and final delivery at the job and individual asset level.  Need a solution for the submission of physical media such as DVDs and Tapes?  No problem, Origin Digital is a turn-key solution for all of your content ingest and transformation needs.

Delivery
To ensure scalability, flash crowd protection, and the best possible viewing experience, Odaptor seamlessly integrates with multiple Content Distribution Network (CDN) providers.  Origin Digital has relationships with the largest CDN providers in the industry and can offer attractive delivery rates due to our ability to aggregate usage across all of our customers.  Already have a CDN contract? No problem, we will work seamlessly with your existing service provider.