Content Ingestion

Using a simple-to-use media upload and/or import wizard, Kaltura’s ingestion engine allows users to add videos, photos, and audio files in a wide variety of formats. The engine is extremely flexible and easy to customize, allowing publishers to include different features and functionalities such as:

  • Rich-media upload from computer
  • Rich-media import from different media sources
  • Social Media access – users can access their personal accounts on various leading sites and directly import their media (YouTube, Flickr, company folders etc.)
  • Import media from any site
  • Record media from Webcam and Microphone
  • Users add tags and keywords to their media as part of the upload/import process, for better search and SEO
  • Multiple file upload/import – users can select to add one file or multiple files per session. Publishers can also bulk-upload multiple files via FTP
  • Kaltura Network – publishers and/or users can choose to import/export content from/to partners on the Kaltura Network, the world’s largest network of legally remixable rich-media content
  • File conversion and transcoding – Kaltura automatically converts files into FLV format, so that multiple videos can be remixed together. Supports more than 50 video and image formats + 130 video and audio codecs
  • Control the level and workflow of encoding, including HD support
  • Digitization – publishers can offer their users to digitize content from 8mm, 16mm, and VHS tapes