New Feature Highlights — April 27th Release Notes

We’re thrilled to announce these feature highlights from the April 27th Release

A new integration with Mixmoov for in-browser video editing is now available in BETA

We’re thrilled to announce a new integration with Mixmoov, an in-browser video editing suite, that allows clients to overlay animated text, define cut points, merge two videos together, add transitions, apply filters, and more. This increased online functionality gives our clients an even greater flexibility when it comes to online video. A brief description from the Mixmoov website:

MIXMOOV™ by Intuitivlab is a feature-rich Online Video Editing suite created to deeply engage your audience.
It provides video editing functionality to websites, businesses and users. With millions of new photos and videos going online everyday, MIXMOOV makes it quick and easy for your audience to create great video clips out of these and share them.

Contact us if you’d like to participate in our closed BETA.

New restrictions available when using dynamic stream switching

With our dynamic stream switching technology vendors are able to give their viewers the best quality video stream possible for playback. We’ve now expanded the functionality of our dynamic stream switching technology by allowing users to pick and choose which assets can be included, while restricting others. This means that users can create and store exceptionally high quality encodes (including the original file) without worrying about streaming these large HD files to a flash web server.

We now support out-of-the-box live streaming through Akamai

We’ve added Akamai to our list of pre-integrated live streaming CDN vendors. Customers with an Akamai account can now use their CDN in association with our live streaming solution, and is now pre-integrated within our console. Find our more about Akamai through their website.

At Twistage it’s a priority to keep innovating and evolving our platform to keep up with the newest trends and technologies in online video. To achieve these goals we follow an iterative development model, with regular releases every two weeks. These releases contain everything from small encoding solutions to entirely new product feature sets. Here we highlight a few of the most influential releases from the most recent notes, and talk a little bit about what it means for Twistage clients. For a full list of release notes and to answer any questions you might have on the platform please contact Twistage at info@twistage.com.

New Feature Highlights — February 16th Release Notes

We’re thrilled to announce these feature highlights from the February 16th Release

New Wordpress plugin available

Using our new plugin it’s now possible to easily incorporate Twistage  functionality into your existing Wordpress blog or site. Our new plugin gives users the ability to upload and embed video, modify the player configuration, add metadata and more within the Wordpress console. While we tout our ability to fit into any CMS with our incredibly flexible APIs, this new plugin makes it that much easier to add video directly to a wordpress site. We’ll be following up on this in the next few weeks with some articles going into more detail on the plugin and how it can simplify your workflow needs.

New metadata fields have been added to the platform

Several new built-in metadata fields, including artist and genre, can now be used as criteria when organizing videos and creating playlists. These new additions to the list of standard metadata fields (length, tags, description, views, etc.) let publishers use our custom metadata field functionality in a more focused and flexible way. Moreover, these new fields give publishers the ability to easily organize their content into much more specific channels, which in turn helps viewers stay engaged.

Twistage’s ad partners now includes YuMe, a Video Ad Network

We’re thrilled to announce a new integration with YuMe Ad Network. Find it in our list of advertising partners within the Settings tab. A little snippet of info on our partner taken from their site:

YuMe is one of the most innovative leaders in the burgeoning field of video advertising. We design and produce proprietary technology that makes professional video more profitable for publishers and more effective for advertisers. In addition, our award-winning ACE™ enterprise software and premium video advertising network offer an integrated media solution to publishers, advertisers, and agencies that is unmatched in the industry.

At Twistage it’s a priority to keep innovating and evolving our platform to keep up with the newest trends and technologies in online video. To achieve these goals we follow an iterative development model, with regular releases every two weeks. These releases contain everything from small encoding solutions to entirely new product feature sets. Here we highlight a few of the most influential releases from the most recent notes, and talk a little bit about what it means for Twistage clients. For a full list of release notes and to answer any questions you might have on the platform please contact Twistage at info@twistage.com.