The Panopto Platform
The Panopto platform assembles your media into a whole that's more than the sum of its parts. Whether your content is captured or imported, it's managed, searched, and delivered using the Panopto platform for a consistent user experience across all content. The Panopto platform server infrastructure can be deployed behind a firewall on your organization's own servers, or we can host your content in the cloud for a maintenance-free experience.
Mobile and on-demand
24/7 access to knowledge has become a baseline requirement for competitive organizations. Content must also be accessible across the various device platforms we use throughout the day.
- View recordings from virtually any device with an internet connection, including PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets.
- Automatically create podcasts and RSS feeds for all your recordings.
- Utilize simple, built-in tools to publish recordings via Twitter and Facebook or embed presentations in your blog or website.
Discover everything
The cornerstone of the Panopto platform is its built-in search engine. Panopto's frame-level search capability transforms one-off recordings into powerful, reusable assets.
- Search video transcripts, captions, PowerPoint slides, and user notes.
- Locate the exact video frame, slide, note, or phrase you need within a specific presentation, or search for relevant content across your entire library.
- Panopto makes videos as efficient to search and review as basic text documents, giving users asynchronous control of critical content.
Unmatched scalability
Panopto is a webservice with affordable scalability at its core. Because it is not tethered to expensive appliances or other custom hardware, the Panopto platform can be deployed across your entire organization using the equipment and servers you already own.
- Non-hosted Panopto installations run from industry-standard Windows 2008 servers.
- The Panopto viewer, editor, and library are entirely browser-based, so there's no software to deploy or manage for content users.
- Panopto supports VMware and distributes recording, editing, and archiving processes across multiple endpoints to eliminate single points of failure and reduce the cost of scaling system capacity.
System integration
Panopto has developed a series of standard and custom integrations to help you incorporate your rich media resources into your wider information management systems.
- Panopto includes the ability to access your Active Directory from within the Panopto console for streamlined sharing, permissioning, and security.
- Panopto is SCORM conformant and includes custom integrations for Blackboard, Moodle, Angel, Web CT and other learning management systems.
- Panopto features a full public API for further customization.
Low cost of ownership
The seamless integration of Panopto Focus and Unison with our browser-based platform enables a full video capture and management solution at a fraction of the cost and requirements of other systems.
- No appliances to buy, no special hardware required. Panopto will work out of the box with your current server, computers, webcams, and other A/V equipment.
- Panopto offers world-class training and support, but our software is actively designed so you won't need it! Panopto's ease-of-use encourages quick adoption, easy self-mastery, and hassle-free system management and maintenance.
- Conserve IT resources. There is no local software to maintain or configure for content users, and the Panopto Recorder is a mere 4 MB download, so recorders are preset for immediate capture and can be widely distributed within minutes. Anyone can quickly become a Panopto technician.
Video editing made simple
Panopto is designed to radically limit or eliminate the need for post-production, but easy-to-use web-based editing tools are built right into the platform for your convenience. No need to hire an editor or master complex video editing software.
- All editing in Panopto is non-destructive. Nothing gets permanently deleted unless you actively make it so.
- 508 compliant captioning is a breeze with Panopto. You can manually enter individual captions directly into the Panopto editor or simply click the transcript request button and a full transcript of your presentation will be uploaded and synchronized to your video within days.
- Activating a Panopto Unison license will enable a "composer mode" in the platform editor, allowing you to create presentations from scratch by simply dragging and dropping files onto a timeline in the editor.
User notes
Encourage deeper collaboration and personalization with Panopto's innovative note-taking feature.
- Viewers can add searchable digital notes directly to specific moments in any presentation.
- Notes can be kept private or added to collaborative public channels open to defined groups or the entire viewing audience.
- Viewers can add notes to both live and archived recordings, giving them a means to "mark-up" any presentation and create a system of searchable bookmarks across an entire library of content.
Analytics
The Panopto platform also includes a robust analytics feature that allows you to monitor who is watching your media and precisely how they are navigating the material.
- Create individual viewer accounts and user groups with Panopto's web-based administration console and track individual content usage. Identify who has watched a recording, how many times, and for how long.
- See a graphical timeline of viewer engagement for each recording to determine the effectiveness of specific portions of your content.
- Gather aggregate viewing data for individual recordings, groups of recordings, or your entire media library.
