Content Ingestion

Using a simple-to-use media upload and/or import wizard, Hands-On’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:

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  Content Ingestion

  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
• Hands-On Network – publishers and/or users can choose to import/export content from/to partners on the Hands-On Network
• File conversion and transcoding – Hands-On 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

Video Publishing

Find new viewers and expand your reach by delivering your video through social networks and 3rd-party sites.

1. Easy sharing on Facebook and Twitter
2. Live broadcast with Hands-on Live & Qik
3. Distribute via Hands-On partners
4. Syndicate with custom feeds

Video Player

Hands-On enables publishers to easily publish video to any site, in a multitude of formats. Hands-On video players come in a variety of styles and can be skinned and customized to match any brand. Our unique interactive video player allows publishers to add engaging features directly to the player, including buttons to upload and remix media, share, report abuse, comment, rate and more.

Galleries

Display content in any gallery style or format, with or without an accompanying video player in the gallery area and additional features such as hover preview, auto play of default video and more.

Playlists

Display content as a playlist using the playlist widget.

• Playlists can be admin created (manual) or dynamically created, according to tags and other criteria
• Publishers can easily create different types of playlists, such as
  • Most viewed videos
  • Highest rated videos
  • Specific subject (for example, “Lionel Messi’s goals”) which will display the top content from the publisher’s site, and/or from the Network
• The playlist module supports open formats such as media RSS (MRSS) enabling access to thousands of free video feeds available on the web

High Definition

We now provides a High Definition internet experience, delivering a sharper picture, intense colors and a greater sense of depth to online video.

Content Discovery

Hands-On offers video recommendation services to simplify the way viewers discover videos on websites.  By presenting the best videos to each viewer at the right time, viewers get the videos that they really want to see, watch more videos for a longer time, spend more time on the site and develop a high level of loyalty and engagement with the site.

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Video Editing & Annotations

The online video editor widget offers a robust set of features in an intuitive and easy to use interface. Our flexible editors allow publishers to add editing and remixing capabilities matching the level of complexity and interaction they need.

Standard Video Editor

The editor can be customized to fit your brand and target audience. It can be directly invoked from the video player or appear as a stand alone component.

Video Editing

Standard Video Editor functionality:

• Remix videos and images
• Import videos, images and audio while editing
• Add a soundtrack
• Add transitions
• Trim video clip
• Add effects and texts to images
• Revert to previous edits

Advanced Video Editor

The premium full featured video editor offers the most comprehensive set of tools available today for online video editing.

Video Mixing

Advanced Video Editor functionalities:

• Remix videos and images
• Import videos, images and audio while editing
• Add a soundtrack
• Add transitions
• Trim video clips
• Add effects and texts to images
• Add text slides
• Timeline based editing
• Video and audio layers
• Library of effects, overlays and transitions
• Revisioning and History
• Dynamic overlays

Powerpoint Presentation

Video-PowerPoint Widget

The Video-PowerPoint Widget allows publishers to present synchronized video and PowerPoint presentations to viewers around the world.  The PowerPoint-Video Widget provides publishers with an easy and intuitive remote presentation tool, allowing presenters to upload their slideshows and videos, to easily synchronize between the video and the specific slides in the slideshow, and then share the full presentation with remote viewers who can view the presentation anywhere and at any time.

Syndication & Sharing

syndication

Publishers can ensure that their brand, website and rich-media content are optimized in terms of recognition, monetization, sharing and SEO benefits.  Hands-On’s distribution features help publishers extend their audience and increase the usage and delivery of their rich-media content across the web.

Syndication by Publisher

• MRSS feeds – publishers can feed their media information and updated feed into major video search engines
• Syndication via distribution partners – publishers can offer partners access to their media via APIs, and allow partners the ability to use MRSS feeds into their sites
• Syndication using widgets – syndicate content to other
  sites by providing not only a content feed, but also the widgets,
  enabling better control and monetization of content
• Scheduling – Control timing of availability of content
• Geographiy – Control IP geolocation access to content, within and
  outside of site

Sharing/ Syndication by End User

• Downloads and exports – publishers can allow their users to download videos for offline use.  This is extremely useful for videos or “video-mixes” that include more than one media clip – users click “Download” and all media assets in the video are “flattened” into a single file on the user’s personal computer for offline use.  Publishers can select which file format flattened files are saved in.
• Viral distribution – users can post video on any website or blog via HTML embed code
• Integrated sharing – users can post their videos directly to their user profiles on more than 50 social networks, blogs and other sites. The interface is completely customizable so that you can match the look and feel of your site or content.
• Control distribution by users – implement measures such as IP Geolocation restrictions, prevent widgets from playing content on certain sites, use security measures to guard content and more.

Video Management

The Video Management Console provides publishers with a complete set of tools for content and video management.  The management console lets publishers gain maximum control over media management and widget configuration, and thorough visibility of video usage via detailed analytics.

Media Management and Workflow

Hands-On offers a full service media management tool to help publishers organize and track their online video system, functions and rich-media content.  The tool includes the following capabilities:

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  Media Management

  Batch Upload

• Content management
• Moderate content and activation control
• Playlist creation – manual and smart-logic
• Thumbnail creation and image capture
• Track viewer behavior
• Administer user moderation
• Review flagged content
• Permissions setting
• Support for third-party moderation
• CMS integration
• Player publishing
• Billing information and account settings

Application Studio

Hands-On’s application studio enables publishers to configure the widgets supported by Hands-On video platform:

• Video player – design the player skin, include watermark logo, decide what buttons and features to add to the video player, select pre-defined player templates, or create your own.
• Component integration – integrate 3rd-party applications and features into players.
• Video uploader – design the skin of the uploader wizard and decide which types of content (video, audio, images) may be uploaded or imported, and which sources may be searched for content import (Flickr, YouTube…).
• Video editor – customize the skin and graphics of the online video editor, and enable/disable various features (such as the ability to add external content while editing, add a soundtrack, add custom transitions, etc.)

Analytics

Publishers receive a clear picture of the usage and success of their online video offering via Hands-On’s Reports & Analytics module.  Accessed throughour Open Source Video Platform’s secure video management console, Hands-On’s reports provide a quick snapshot with high-level information, as well as specific reports that drill down into user-specific information.

Video Advertising & Monetization

Generate revenue from your videos using  Hands-On’s video advertising capabilities.

Our video advertising platform features:

• Partnerships with multiple video ad networks giving you full choice and flexibility
• Support for a wide range of video ad formats (including all major IAB standards)
• Easy integration
• Superior economies of scale

Hands-On’s team works with publishers to devise an optimal video advertising strategy as well as suggest additional video marketing tools.

A variety of merchandising monetization solutions are also available (DVD Printing, Flipbooks, e-Commerce and more).

Video Advertising

Hands-On has partnered and integrated its technology with the leading video advertising platforms, supporting a wide variety of video ad formats and configurable video ad timing options:

• Text overlays
• Banner overlays
• Rich-media ads
• Companion ads

• Pre-roll video ads
• Mid-roll video ads
• Post-roll video ads
• In-video time based ads

Video Monetization: DVD Creation

We have partnered with Home Movie Depot to make DVD creation widely available through members of our Network. Network members can open up a whole new revenue stream by offering their users the capability to digitize their media and burn it on DVDs using Home Movie Depot’s services. Users can then add and edit material, and further customize the DVD using our unique DVD Creator.