Many media professionals spend hours bent over a keyboard and mouse in an editing bay, followed by more hours at a terminal managing the intelligent compression of the media to its optimum viewing experience. Once the settings are known, a consistent video experience may be obtained by reusing the same parameters. Telestream's FlipFactory Publish 1.1 is server-based software so simple that anyone with a Web browser can use it, yet so powerful that enterprise content professionals can trust it to consistently publish video for the Web. Keeping it simple We were impressed with how FlipFactory simplified media conversion in different scenarios. A set of wizards lets you establish a publishing workflow.
Factories consist of encoders and destinations.
The categories that need to be selected are based on the outcome the user wants and the format of the file the encoder begins with. Once the encoders are created, the end user no longer sees all the options. An account may have an unlimited number of encoders, but going too far down this path increases complexity and defeats the purpose of FlipFactory Publish. The important parameter for success is to have filters set, if necessary, and the correct encoders for a particular destination or application. We found it was difficult to manage more than four products in one factory, because each product needed a nickname and keeping them straight required a naming scheme.