SAFARI Montage
Next Generation Interactive Videoconferencing On-Demand at Your Desktop
With SAFARI Montage® Live-5! interactive videoconferencing, school districts can enable their educators to connect and collaborate with colleagues and students like never before — easily and affordably.
This feature-rich, IP-based videoconferencing system utilizes a SAFARI Montage® Live! server, the district's private WAN and the public Internet to facilitate interactive group sessions led by one or many broadcasters. Unlike other videoconferencing systems, SAFARI Montage® Live! requires minimal training and technical support because of its intuitive interface and simple system setup. All a user needs is a camera and a microphone (headset preferred) connected to his or her desktop or laptop computer — that's it!
SAFARI Montage® Live-5! is the ideal solution for providing reliable school-to-school or school-to-home education for many applications, including AP classes, distance education for homebound students, professional development for teachers at school or at home, and virtual field trips to remote locations.
With the release of SAFARI Montage v.5.3, SML5 is now fully integrated with the SAFARI Montage dashboard, providing users with one-click access to invitations, live sessions and archived videoconferences. In addition, SML5 session recordings are now integrated into SAFARI Montage search results.
Screen Sharing
Teachers can now share an individual window, application or entire desktop while maintaining the videoconferencing and
chat windows, making the system much more collaborative. This feature has been optimized to improve efficiency and provide
reduced bandwidth requirements.
On-screen Layout
Choose one of three preset layouts based on your needs — Chat, Presentation or Conference — or adjust the
layout just the way you like and save it for future sessions.
SML5 Now fully integrated with the SAFARI Montage® Dashboard
COMPLETE LDAP INTEGRATION
Enables any SAFARI Montage LDAP user to schedule, launch and participate in SML5 sessions.
ACCESS INVITATIONS
Join scheduled SML5 videoconferences directly from the dashboard. With V.5.3 Invitation Enhancements, SAFARI Montage users can now be invited to a session by user type, school or school group in addition to individual invitations.
SCHEDULE SESSIONS
Videoconferences can be easily scheduled right from the SAFARI Montage dashboard. The new Personal Address Book feature allows invitations and management of users outside of a district network.
ACCESS RECORDINGS
Recorded SML5 videoconferences can be accessed and played right from the dashboard.
Emoticons
Allows users to pictorially express an action or feeling, such as applauding, requesting to speak, etc.
Live Polling
Get immediate feedback on a topic by conducting an online live poll with participants. Now, with SML5, users can e-mail participant data.
Video & Audio Enhancements
- High quality video (480x360) and audio (44kbps) that are double the quality of other desktop videoconferencing systems
- Fullscreen video
- Echo cancellation
- Set and fine-tune video quality for broadcasters individually, up to full HD quality
- Start and stop other broadcasters
- Dramatic ability to play full-motion video from Media Library or YouTube®
Administration
- Updated account center with improved navigation and configurable dashboard of scheduled sessions, recordings
- Automatic creation of user accounts from invitations
- Ability for administrators to impersonate a user for support purposes
- Ability to remotely control any participant's desktop (with permission)
Other
- Moderated Question & Answer – allows the moderator to review and selectively answer questions
- Video Conversion
- Pause Recordings
- Onscreen connection quality feedback
- Customizeable meeting URLs
- Session encryption via RTMPE
Natively Supported Files
IMAGE
PNG, GIF, JPG, SWF
VIDEO
FLV, F4V, MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP
AUDIO
F4A, MP3
WEB SOURCES
YouTube®, Flickr®, any URL with a supported filetype (listed above)
Supported Files for Conversion
Is your file not supported natively? If it's one of the filetypes below, you can still upload it to your session. From your SML5 Media Library, one click converts your file so that it can be shared and viewed by all participants.
VIDEO
MPG, MPEG, MP4, MPG4, MOV, MOOV, WMV
AUDIO
AAC
DOCUMENTS
PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, TXT, RTF, PDF
SAFARI Montage Live-5!
System Requirements
- SAFARI Montage® v5.3 server
- SAFARI Montage® Live-5! server
With SAFARI Montage® v4.0 and later, you can access your SML session recordings directly from your dashboard.
Full Dashboard integration of SML5 invitations, sessions and recordings, providing one-click access.
A Cost-Cutting Solution
With SAFARI Montage® Live!, districts can save money with Virtual Field Trips, on Distance Learning and on Professional Development.
- Virtual field trips designed by leading national organizations like NASA and Colonial Williamsburg replace costly real field trips, while preserving the essence of the experience for students.
- Interactive videoconferencing at the desktop connects remote students with teachers efficiently and economically.
- Professional Development costs are reduced or eliminated, including stipends, substitutes, teacher overtime, mileage reimbursements, meals and beverages, and location costs, as well as costs associated with duplicating or replacing hard copy Professional Development programs on VHS and DVD.
This new product allows you to include participants in your SAFARI Montage® Live-5! conference who are using traditional H.323-based videoconferencing systems, such as those offered by Tandberg® and Polycom®.1
PARTICIPANTS
- Include H.323 participants, and efficiently broadcast them to SML participants, such as teachers, professors and homebound students.
- The gateway supports one H.323 connection at a time, which may be a direct connection from a single H.323 unit or from an H.323 conferencing bridge capable of supporting multiple participants.2
- H.323 participant(s) connected to the gateway views the full SML session window as video on their H.323 unit. While unable to use the SML5 interactive tools, H.323 participants can still speak and be seen by all others in the session.
- System administrators can maintain a directory of H.323 callers as well as manage and operate the gateway via a web interface.
 ADD CONTACT |
 ADD SESSION |
 REMOTE DESKTOP |
 HANG UP |
 CALL/CONNECT |
 DELETE CONTACT |
SAFARI Montage® Live! and SAFARI Montage® Live! H.323 Gateway Purchase Information
For pricing and more information, call 800-843-4549 or email cs@safarimontage.com.