Case Study: A Historic Conversion

For 25 years, PRIMEDIA’s Films Media Group has been on the leading edge of distribution technology. In 2004, it wanted to convert more than 3,000 titles for electronic distribution and chose Online Video Service to digitize various tape formats, for different computer platforms, while retaining the original production’s audio and video quality.

Online Video Service custom-made processes and specifications for what has become the largest, ongoing digitization of educational video content in history. Some of the specific solutions include:

• Designing specific technical parameters, such as image size and encoding program
  
  
• Choosing cross-platform formats, including Windows Media and MPEG-2
  
  
• Scheduling conversion processes for delivery in record time

Online Video Service’s work helped Films Media Group answer the growing demand for educational video on demand servers and distribution over the Internet. The company also realized significant savings by reducing the need to ship video content to customers.

See for yourself the digital archival work we've done for the Films group.