Media Mill News

Here's a short video that runs through some of the features that are about to appear on Media Mill.

What all have we got?

• Upload from your browser (for small files)
• AJAXyness - No more page refreshes for deleting archives/derivatives, locking, adding to projects, adding to podcasts, or checking status.
• Support for setting the author field of podcasts (uses the credits field for individual videos, globally defined in the 'my podcasts' edit page)
• Revised and cleaned help system - New articles on derivative types, quality levels, quicktime captioning and more!
• Quicktime captioning support (actually shipped a few weeks ago, but it's official now)
• Podcast viewing with Mango
• Performance improvements for page loads
• Ability to restrict access to only people with X500 accounts

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Coming soon...

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The Media Mill beta site has a new feature, which allows you to caption Quicktime (and video for ipod/iphone) files, in addition to the existing flash capability.

All you need to do is add your captions to the transcript field (in the same DFXP format as always) and then create a quicktime derivative. The captions will be baked into the file, as a true captioning track. Then you can choose to turn it on and off during playback. In Quicktime Player, it's under the view menu, in iTunes it's under Controls->Audio Options, and on the iPhone it's in the iPod settings menu.

When you're watching it in the browser, just right click (or control click on a mac) on the video and choose "show captions." Here's an example.

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