SAFARI Montage
Upload & Share User-Created Digital Media
Upload, Meta-tag & Apply Digital Rights Management to User-Created Content
SAFARI Montage CreationStation® is an easy-to-use integrated module that enables schools and districts to upload user-created digital content and licensed media to the SAFARI Montage® system (item by item or in bulk). Once uploaded, the content can be meta-tagged with grade ranges, segment descriptions, correlated to curriculum standards and designated for home access. Flexible Digital Rights Management provides control over the content to ensure that the correct users have access to it in the proper ways.
When used in conjunction with SAFARI Montage® WAN Manager, districts can upload and distribute digital content to all schools with ease, thereby supporting critical initiatives like Professional Development.
SEGMENTING USER-CREATED CONTENT
MEDIA UPLOAD
SAFARI Montage CreationStation® supports more than 50 of the most popular media and document file format types that can be added into playlists, thereby increasing their effectiveness as multimedia lesson plans. Supported file types include:
AUDIO
MP3, M4A
DOCUMENT
- Adobe® Portable Document Format (.pdf)
- Apple® iWork® Keynote® (.key)
- Apple iWork Numbers® (.numbers)
- Apple iWork Pages® (.pages)
- Microsoft® Excel® (.xls, .xlsx)
- Microsoft PowerPoint® (.ppt, .pptx)
- Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
- OpenOffice.org® (.odt, .ods, .odg, .odf, .odp)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- StarOffice® (.sdw, .sdc, .sdd, .sdp)
- Text (.txt)
NEW 4.2WEB LINKS
Any URL Addresses
IMAGE
JPEG, GIF, NEW 5.7PNG, Bitmap
INTERACTIVE
- Adobe Flash® (.swf)
- Cyber-Science Animation (.nmo, .csp)
- NEW 5.7 Google Earth (.kmz, .kml)
VIDEO
- Adobe Flash Video (.flv, .f4v)
- H.264 (MPEG-4, Part 10/AVC)
- NEW 5.7M4V without DRM (.m4v)
- MPEG-1 Video File (.mpg)
- MPEG-4 Part 2 (.mp4)
- QuickTime® Movie (.mov)
- Windows Media® Video (.wmv)
EBOOK
- NEW 5.7 Apple iBook (.ibooks)
- NEW 4.3 EPUB® (epub)
- NEW 4.3 Microsoft Reader (.lit)
- NEW 5.7 Mobipocket (.mobi)
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD FILES
- NEW 5.0 eInstruction® Workspace™ (.gwb)
- NEW 5.0 Hitachi® StarBoard® (.yar)
- Promethean® Flipchart (.flp, .flipchart)
- Promethean Resource Pack (.as3a)
- SMART Notebook (.xbk, .notebook)
NEW 5.7NEW FEATURES
- Ability to upload video with Spanish language and other languages now supported!
- Now supports uploading of closed-captioning! (QTText and SMIL formats supported)
- Users may now upload photos, videos and other media files directly from their iPad!
- Students can now upload files to My Locker for their own use! Storage limits make this feature easy to administer.
- Districts can now create their own publishers with logos to associate with uploaded content.
Customer is responsible for the use of content on SAFARI Montage CreationStation®, including original and third-party content. Third-party content may be copyrighted material of the third party that supplies it and may not be used without the written permission of the copyright holder. SAFARI Montage is not responsible for the performance, distribution or any other use of Customer's or any other third-party content.
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
METADATA
Enter essential metadata with the same interface used by our SAFARI Montage curriculum experts, complete with 3,500 subject headings for assignment. Assign title, description, grade range and copyright date.
NEW 5.7Custom, Searchable Metadata Fields Now Supported
NEW 4.0
LICENSE MANAGEMENT
LICENSED MEDIA RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Tracks and manages license expiration dates, and facilitates copyright adherence.
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Assign permissions that offer increased control by individual user, user group or user types (all users, all teachers, teachers with uploading privileges, students or administrators), and determine whether or not your content may be downloaded by the user to his or her desktop. With SAFARI Montage® Managed Home Access, you can control whether your content may be played by users and parents from home.
UPLOAD, MANAGE AND SHARE SMART NOTEBOOK, PROMETHEAN FLIPCHART, HITACHI STARBOARD AND eINSTRUCTION WORKSPACE FILES
Incorporate interactive whiteboard files into your playlists. Save and share with all teachers in the school district.
NEW 5.7 Interactive whiteboard files and other documents can now be converted to and associated with a PDF version for use on iPads.
NEW 4.3New option for CreationStation™!
Expanded Multi-Format Auto-Converter
NEW 5.3 Simultaneously converts videos to multiple bitrates (300, 800 and 1600 kbps)
NEW 5.7 Users can now control which bitrates are available by user type
Now with the SAFARI Montage® Multi-Format Auto-Converter, school districts can automatically convert both the format and bitrate of their self-created video files uploaded via SAFARI Montage CreationStation®. Uploaded videos are converted automatically in the background to a lower bitrate quality (300, 800 and 1600 kbps) in the mobile device-friendly H.264 format. With this powerful Auto-Converter, SAFARI Montage® saves districts significant time, effort and money in converting source video to the cross-platform H.264 format.
Uploaders no longer have
to create three files!
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- SAFARI Montage® v4.3.7 or higher
- SAFARI Montage CreationStation®
Formats supported for conversion:
WMV – Windows Media Video, MPG – MPEG-1,
MP4 – H.264, F4V – H.264
SAFARI Montage CreationStation® Purchase Information
For pricing and more information, call 800-843-4549 or email cs@safarimontage.com.