NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –December 21, 2014

The following videos from California Newsreel were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

What's Race Got to Do with It?

What's Race Got to Do with It? ( DVD Bonus Content)

Faces of the Enemy

Faces of the Enemy ( Bonus DVD Commentary)

NJVID has a new vendor - On The Road Productions

The following Video was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:


On The Road Productions:

• Conversations With Gorbachev

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –November 16, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

Films Media Group:

• Soul of India: Hindus and Muslims in Conflict
• Six Characters in Search of an Author 

Women Make Movies:

• How to Lose Your Virginity
• Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights

Alexander Street Press:

• An Introduction to Qualitative Research
• An Introduction to Quantitative Research

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –November 23, 2014

The following videos from Film Ideas Inc. were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Wind Power
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Waste to Energy
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Biodiesel
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Solar Energy
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Solar Revisited
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Geothermal Energy
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Wave Energy
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Hydroelectric Power
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Sustainable Mining
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Green Education
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - New Urbanism
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Green Building
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Green Remodeling
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Green Insulation
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Green Golf Course Management
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Water Systems
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Urban Planning and Building - Home Recycling
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Transportation - Hydrogen Fuel
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Transportation - Green Vehicles
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Transportation - The Greening Of Freight Rail Part #1
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Transportation - The Greening Of Freight Rail Part #2
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Wildlife Management
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Sustainable Fisheries
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Sustainable Forestry
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Waterways Superfund Part 1
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Waterways Superfund Part 2
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Wine
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Beer
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Organic Cooking
• The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Medicine
• Freedom Seekers: Stories from the Western Underground Railroad - Volume 1
• Freedom Seekers: Stories from the Western Underground Railroad - Volume 2
• Greenpeace: The Story
• History of Life: Plants, Earth’s Quiet Rulers
• History of Life: The Story of the Feather
• History of Life: The Landing
• History of Life: Mating – The Search for the Other Half
• History of Life: Extinction – An End and a New Beginning
• Jews & Muslims: Origins (610-721)
• Jews & Muslims: The Place of the Other (721-1789)
• Jews & Muslims: The Separation (1789-1945)
• Jews & Muslims: Narratives at War (1945 to Present Day)

Introducing new Closed Caption creator tool and other captioning enhancements

We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing a closed captioning creator and editor tool that will allow media owners to manually create captions for their existing and new media files on the night of December 8, 2014.

Some of the features of the captioning tool are

• Adjust delay time to captions (suitable while working with external caption files)

• Ability to import existing captions (in SRT, TTML formats) created by external applications or services. The caption creator tool can then be used to edit captions and their timings.

• Keyboard shortcuts to simplify the caption creation process

• Import plain text transcripts and adjust start and end time for quicker creation of captions

• The caption creator tool will automatically create WEBVTT caption format for showing captions on HTML5 player on mobile devices (phones, tablets)

• Users can also provide caption text in different languages and can insert symbols with the provided onscreen multilingual keyboard

• Export and download created captions.

• Save drafts of captioning work to resume at a later time

Other enhancements related to Captions

• The user will be able to not just toggle on or off captions but also be able to switching to captions in other languages (if they exist) on the Flash and HTML5 player

• Ability to add existing captions from within LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle etc)

• The user will be able to not just toggle on or off captions but also be able to switching to captions in other languages (if they exist) on the Flash and HTML5 player

• Ability to add existing captions from within LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle etc)

Please note that there will not be any downtime or service interruption when this feature is released. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net.regards, 

NJVID Staff

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – October 26, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Bullfrog Films:

• The Allergy Fix

Maintenance Notification: November 2, 2014 from 6 AM to 8 AM

On Sunday, November 2, 2014, between 6 A.M. and 8 A.M., NJVID staff will be involved in extending the NJVID service infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and perform server configuration changes, DNS migrations and other work related to this extension.

This move to AWS for certain services will provide NJVID technical staff the ability to quickly scale up the service and provide agility to our infrastructure especially since our service and storage demand has seen a phenomenal increase in usage. We are confident that the AWS platform coupled with the NJEDge infrastructure will provide greater processing power, high availability, offer scalability on demand and will ultimately provide a superior end user experience.

Please note that during this time window, the NJVID service may be impacted in part or in full. In the event this maintenance activity does impact service, the possible outage duration should not exceed 30 minutes.

Please feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net if you have any questions regarding this email.

regards,
NJVID Staff

NJVID has a new vendor - Screenscope, Inc.

The following videos from Screenscope, Inc. were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Journey To Planet Earth: Hot Zones
• Journey To Planet Earth: Hot Zones (Abridged Version)
• Journey To Planet Earth: Land of Plenty, Land of Want
• Journey To Planet Earth: Land of Plenty, Land of Want (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: On the Brink
• Journey to planet Earth: On the Brink (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: Rivers of Destiny
• Journey to planet Earth: Rivers of Destiny (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: Seas of Grass
• Journey to planet Earth: Seas of Grass (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth:The Urban Explosion
• Journey to planet Earth:The Urban Explosion (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: Future Conditional
• Journey to planet Earth: Future Conditional (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet's Wildlife
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet's Wildlife (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: The State of the Ocean's Animals
• Journey to planet Earth: The State of the Ocean's Animals (Abridged Version)
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet's Oceans
• Journey to planet Earth: State of the Planet's Oceans (Abridged Version)
• Journey To planet Earth: Plan B - Mobilizing to Save Civilization
• Journey to planet Earth: Extreme Realities

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – October 19, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

ro*co Films:

• The Human Face of Big Data

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –October 12, 2014

The following video was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

GOOD DOCS:

• Pad Yatra: A Green Oddyssey

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – October 4, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Mercy International Association:

• The Circle of Mercy (Spanish Version)

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –September 28, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

Media Education Foundation:

• Pornland: How the Porn Industry has Hijacked Our Sexuality

Landmark Media:

• Circle Within The Square

American Foundation For The Blind:

• What Do You Do When You See a Blind Person?

Feature updates - releasing October 3, 2014

We are excited to announce the availability of some new features and updates that we have been working on. This update will be made available to all NJVID users on October 3, 2014 at approximately 11 PM EST

List of new updates

1. Enhanced Media Upload Functionality Tool

NJVID now features an updated and enhanced media upload tool. Some of the significant features of this updated functionality are:

• We have increase the upload size limits from 2 GB to 5 GB. Now users can easily upload large files directly from your computer or any device instead of using a FTP or web server.In the past, users had to use a FTP or web server to bypass the 2 GB limit.
• The Flash based file uploader has been replaced with a HTML5 file uploader, thus allowing users to upload media files directly from their mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. Instructors and students can record lectures or presentations from these devices and upload them directly to NJVID.
• New ‘Drag and Drop’ functionality lets users on newer browsers (that support HTML5) select media files from their windows or file explorer and drop it into the interface for easier and faster file selection.
• We have also updated bulk upload interface and increased the number of files that can be uploaded from a personal device from 10 media files to 20.

2. Support for more video and audio codecs

The NJVID platform now supports an exhaustive list of video and audio codecs enabling users to upload a wider variety of file formats and extensions. The complete list of all the supported Video and audio codecs that are now supported can be viewed at http://support.njvid.net/support/solutions/articles/170940-supported-media-file


3. Support for Collection level access permissions

NJVID Collection managers now have the added capability to specify collection level access permissions and can restrict access to specific users, groups or all users of the Institution. This is similar to how object level share permissions are provided today. Additionally collections can also be kept private as well and visible only to the collection manager and administrator. Similarly the listing visibility of the collection on the website can be set to inherit the access permissions in addition to the  listed or unlisted permissions that are available today. This update will not affect the listing options or access permissions that may have been set on existing collections.


4. New features and bug fixes for NJVID Reporting tool

A new feature has been added to the NJVID Reporting tool that will display a drill down pie chart for the media views or media asset data set. These charts can be accessed by clicking on the pie chart icon under the available filter options. We have also taken care of some bug fixes that were reported to us.


Feel free to send an email to support@njvid.net if you have any questions regarding this email.

NJVID has a new vendor - New Sky Pictures

The following video was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

New Sky Pictures:

• Chalk

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –September 21, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Icarus Films:

• Trinkets and Beads

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –September 15, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Films Media Group:

• Cracked, Not Broken: One Woman's Struggle with Addiction and Recovery
• Women and Alcohol
• Substance Abuse in the Elderly
• Moyers & Company: MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice
• Dignity Harbor
• Competent Care in a Culturally Diverse Nation
• One Calm Hour
• Obvious Poverty: America's Homeless
• So You’re Going Crazy… Living with a Delusional Disorder
• OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
• A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update –August 31, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Icarus Films:

• Ghosts of Attica

Bullfrog Films:

• Bidder 70

Alexander Street Press:

• Culturally Alert Counseling: A Demonstration of Skills
• Multi-theoretical Counseling and Psychotherapy: Multicultural Strategies for Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Counseling Arab Americans: Clinical Vignettes
• Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities - Part 1
• Counseling Gay and Lesbian People of Color: Multiple Identities - Part 2

Availability of media asset reporting tool and other new features

The following new features will be available to all NJVID subscribers on September 1, 2014 at approximately 11 PM EST.

New reporting tool: Monitor your usage (media assets, storage and views) of the service

We are proud to announce the availability of a new reporting tool for NJVID users and administrators. This tool will help administrators, librarians and users in viewing detailed statistics of NJVID services usage in their institution. The reporting tool will provide key insights into how NJVID is being used within the institution through a combination of graphs and statistics. Administrators can not only track number of media uploads, usage, and views but also track amount of storage being used. Using an intuitive interface users can filter the reports based on media types, collections and platforms. 

The Media asset report lets administrators, owners and authorized users see data on creation trends and monitor storage used. Data visualization through graphs and reports let them track the asset creation trends and then filter and sort based on where the assets were uploaded (website,  LMS or capture device), uploaded hosts, media type and collections. The tool will also have the listing of all commercial assets and their licenses integrated into it, allowing a single pane access of all institutional assets for administrators and librarians and will soon replace the existing Commercial license listing tool. 

The Views report is an enhanced version of the existing Usage Statistics tool and will soon be replacing it. The report provides administrators, owners and authorized users with a comprehensive report on the views for media uploaded by the institutional users. The administrators and users can then filter views data and  see device and browser specific statistics across specific category types of media, or collections. Librarians can also filter views based on the commercial vendor’s name or collection. The tool will also let administrators view other key data such as  top viewers and top viewed media from the Institution. In addition, all reports can be easily exported to CSV file for further analysis.

Automatic title suggestion based on uploaded file name

In the “Add media” screen in the website as well as in LMSes, if the title was not entered in form, the name of the uploaded media file will be suggested as the title in the Title field.

 

Email notification when the media is ready for viewing

While adding a new media file, the user can choose to be notified when the media file is ready to be viewed. The user can also specify additional email addresses to notify other users. 

Please feel free to contact us with your questions or comments by sending an email to support@njvid.net. 

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NJVID has a new vendor - Boise State University

The following video from Boise State University was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Dialogues in Culture

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – August 10, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Women Make Movies:

• Children of Memory (Niños de la Memoria)
• Service: When Women Come Marching Home
• Mountains that Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
• Salma
• King’s Point
• I Am a Girl

NJVID has a new vendor - The Cinema Guild

The following videos from The Cinema Guild Inc. were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Rouge Parole
• Words of Witness
• The Light In Her Eyes
• Our Summer in Tehran
• Karama Has No Walls
• Leviathan

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – July 31, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Icarus Films:

• Mustapha Kemal Ataturk

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – July 13, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Insight Media:

• Pediatric Assessment

Alexander Street Press:

• When the Bough Breaks: Children of Women in Prison

NJVID has a new vendor - Free To Choose Network

The following video from Free To Choose Network was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Globalization at the Crossroads

NJVID has a new vendor - DH Photography LLC

The following videos from DH Photography LLC were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Including Samuel
• Including Samuel (DVD Extra Content - Interviews)
• Including Samuel (DVD Extra Content)

NJVID has a new vendor - Buck Angel Entertainment

The following video from Buck Angel Entertainment was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Sexing The Transman

NJVID has a new vendor - J.C. Productions

The following video from J.C. Productions was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• Movement With A Meaning

NJVID has a new vendor - Interfilm Productions

The following videos from Interfilm Productions were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• High Five: a Suburban Adoption Saga
• Moscow Freestyle
• 10 Days = Wife: Love Translated
• Fatherhood Dreams
• From Russia, For Love
• Family Portrait in Black and White
• Loving A Stranger

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – June 29, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Films Media Group:

• Inside a Shari'ah Court
• The People’s Court: Introducing the Rule of Law in China
• Managing Change in Tough Times
• Social Media for Business Marketing
• Online and Mobile Business Marketing
• What Customers Love and Hate: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Selling Yourself First: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Presenting with Impact: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Overcoming Objections: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Closing the Sale: Sales and Service Masterclass
• The Phone as a Friend: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Managing Difficult Customers and Complaints: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Working Constructively in a Sales Team: Sales and Service Masterclass
• Women Behind Bars: Life and Death in Indiana - Part 1
• Women Behind Bars: Life and Death in Indiana - Part 2
• Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World - The Story of Malala
• Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury - Part 1
• Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury - Part 2
• Teens in Trouble: Chris Cuomo Reports
• He Wouldn't Turn Me Loose: The Sexual Assault Case of 96-Year-Old Miss Mary
• What Poor Child Is This? Poverty and America's Children
• Experiencing Aging
• The Long Goodbye: Facing Dementia
• The Last Journey
• Depression: Not a Normal Part of Aging

Media Education Foundation:

• Spitting Game : The College Hookup Culture
• Spitting Game : The College Hookup Culture (Abridged Version)

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – June 22, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

California Newsreel:

• Anthem, Affirmations and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret)
• Homegoings
• Tongues Untied

New features to be released on June 26, 2014

We are excited to announce the availability of following new features. These features will be made available to all users on June 26, 2014 at approximately 11 PM EST

1. Users an now move multiple objects in bulk from one collection to another

Users will now be able to move media objects in bulk to another collection that they have access to.  In the manage media page, owners of media objects and other authorized users will be able to select one or more media objects and then choose the collection they want these objects to be moved to. With this new features users can move up to 100 objects at a time to a different collection.

2. Institutional Administrators can now enable student uploads for individual LMS

Institutional Administrators can now enable student uploads for each LMS that is integrated with NJVID. This option is now available on the Institutional Profile page.

3. Institutional Administrator’s now have the option to show Userids/Usernames in their statistics report.

By default, Userids/usernames are not shown in the Usage statistics report by default (except for the Institutional Administrator). However, the Institutional Administrator can now choose to enable this for the institution by changing the option in the Institution Profile. All users who have access to view the report will be able to see the usernames instead of a generic term.



4. Bulk export of MARC records of commercial videos.

The Institutional administrators and library staff who have permissions to view the licenses of commercial videos will now also be able to export MARC records in bulk from the “Commercial Video Licenses” screen. Authorized users will be able to filter the videos down to a specific publisher before exporting the MARC records. The records will be mailed to the user requesting it to the user’s email address.

Please feel free to contact us with your questions or comments by sending an email to support@njvid.net.

- NJVID staff

NJVID has a new vendor - A Community Concern

The following video from A Community Concern was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection this week:

• A Community Concern

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – June 8, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Film Ideas Inc:

• The Science of Climate Change
• The Science of Recycling & Design
• The Science of Energy Independence
• The Science of Endangered Species
• The Science of Sustainability

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – June 1, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

First Run Features:

• The Watermelon Woman
• The Watermelon Woman (DVD Bonus Content)
• For the Bible Tells Me So
• For the Bible Tells Me So (DVD Bonus Content)
• The Eye of Vichy
• A Jihad for Love
• I, The Worst of All
• Seven UP
• 7 Plus Seven
• 21 UP
• 28 UP
• 35 UP
• 42 UP
• 49 UP
• 56 UP
• Verdict on Auschwitz : The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965
• Verdict on Auschwitz : The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (DVD Bonus Content)

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – May 25, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Bullfrog Films:

• Barbershop Punk
• Barbershop Punk (DVD Extra Content)
• Bitter Seeds
• Bitter Seeds (DVD Extra Content)
• Extreme By Design
• School's Out!
• School's Out! (Bonus Interview)
• Shadows of Liberty (93 minute version)
• Shadows of Liberty (53 minute version)
• Xmas Without China

NJVID Video Service Update – May 18, 2014

The following videos were added to the NJEDge Collections this week:

Faculty Showcase 2014 Collection:

• Promoting retention in first semester nursing students through interactive "Gatherings
• Using Technology to Maintain Quality and Facilitate Communication in a Large Department
• Classroom Redesign: Designing a Smart, Smarter and Smartest Classroom to Meet the Changing Student and Faculty Needs
• Effective Use of Lecture Capture in a Large Lecture Hall Course
• Digital Hippies or Cyber Thugs : The Rise of Hactivism on the College Campus
• Ocean County College Online Science - The Kit is It!
• Incorporating audience response systems in to a large enrollment Introduction to Psychology class
• Using Simulation to Promote Critical Thinking in the Health Sciences
• Selecting our Canvas
• College Students as Wikipedia Editors : An Engaging Assignment
• Collaborate and the Flipped Classroom : Perfect Together
• Using Technology Intentionally in Our Teaching : Using Technology Mindfully in Our Lives
• Follow the Five M's to Training and Developing Faculty to Teach Online
• Opening Remarks
• The Seven Year Itch
• Veering Left, Or Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect

NJVID Commercial Video Service Update – May 11, 2014

The following video was added to the NJVID Commercial Video Collection:

Kino Lorber Films:

•  Tricked : The Documentary

Zeitgeist Films:

• My Country, My Country
• Manufactured Landscapes
• The Corporation
• Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media
• Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media (DVD Extra Content)
• Lumumba
• Wittgenstein
• Wittgenstein (DVD Extra Content)
• Trouble the Water
• Trouble the Water (DVD Extra content)
• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (DVD extra Content)
• My Country, My Country (DVD Extra Content)
• Manufactured Landscapes (DVD Extra Content)