Sonic Foundry Inc. announced significant enhancements to Mediasite EX, with the 6.1 family of features. This evolution of the Mediasite EX webcasting and video content management system provides unprecedented control and flexibility for universities, automatically processing not only the video but its associated metadata through powerful search and analytics, thereby making the rich video as useful as text. Mediasite users can also record and upload rich media presentations, learning objects or training modules from the convenience of their desktop or laptop and automatically publish them to the powerful Mediasite EX platform.

Enhanced web-based tools and collaboration workflows provide a layer of control for enterprise clients with multiple content producers and knowledge-creation environments, allowing the growth, management and scalability of online knowledge libraries. The 6.1 family of features includes: User Generated Content Module empowers instructors, staff and students to easily create, upload, edit, share and manage rich video presentations wherever they are through the new My Mediasite and Mediasite Desktop Recorder. The Mediasite Desktop Recorder will be easier to maintain than other software-based options.

The app is just so easy to use. Automated metadata creation and content tagging makes all content, whether recorded by Mediasite or uploaded, instantly searchable and navigable. For video-only uploads, Mediasite generates thumbnail navigation and indexes any text in the content, turning previously "flat" video into rich, interactive video.

Plus, user tagging adds another powerful layer of metadata to help pinpoint content anywhere in a presentation, catalog, or an entire Mediasite library.