I’ve been through a bunch of video transitions since I started working in AOL Music & AOL Entertainment’s many different incarnations from 2004 to the present day.
We transcoded catalogs of video from NSV (Nullsoft Video) to Real (yuk!) and QuickTime (for Macs which at the time nobody had) to Windows Media Video (only slightly less yuk!) to WMV DRM’d video (yuk squared!) and finally to Flash Video (aaaaaah).
Now that we have a great video format and pretty hot quality, we are optimizing for cost in the CMS and player arena. As such, converting from internal solutions, to Brightcove’s enterprise solution. And tonight, we are starting the launch sequence for converting all of our asset management, ingestion, metadata handling, playback, and all associated dependent systems.
It’s a big and kinda scary transition, but we have had the right amount of preparation, and everyone is on point. Things will go wrong – I have no doubt. More to come.
Good luck with all that.
Reading your post brought back some killer — I mean really killer, as in painful — memories … Brightcove sounds interesting. Wonder what’s next?
Hey Paul! Really great to hear you. After NSV and Real and QT and WMV and now FLV gosh I have no idea what’s afterwards. That’s what I tell my kids is part of the glory of the human condition, or as in Lion King the “Circle Of Life”
Anyway yeah working with BC has been really good so far and we’re not done yet!