Prerequisites

In order to make use of the Video Cloud feature, some prerequisites concerning licensing, permissions, and catalog settings must be met.

A respective license is must be purchased, and activated via the Remote Admin module of the Cumulus (Web) Server Console. This can be

• a valid account with one of the supported Video Cloud provider must exist.
The credentials required by the provider must be entered on the Settings tab of the Video Cloud module of the (Web) Server Console. (For details, see Setting up the Video Cloud.)

• The Cumulus Video Cloud is a genuine carefree package that allows to use a ready-configured Video Cloud solution out of the box – no need to worry about which Video Cloud provider to choose, or contract or licensing details, or configuration specifics.

• Video Cloud Connectors are aimed at Cumulus customers who want to choose a Video Cloud provider of their own, or already have a contract with such a provider. A Video Cloud Connector permits to integrate the capabilities of a Video Cloud provider into Cumulus. There are dedicated Video Cloud Connectors for the different providers supported by Cumulus.

Cumulus users who want to use the Video Cloud feature (i.e. uploading and publishing videos, making use of video links and embed codes) must have special Video Cloud Catalog Permissions.

Cumulus provides three Video Cloud specific Catalog Permissions (Permissions > Catalog Permissions > Video Cloud Permissions).

• Video Cloud Contributor – can (additionally) alter the embed code with different player skins, can make use of derivatives, can view some video-related statistics data, and can control the availability period (from - to)

• Video Cloud Administrator – can (additionally) manage video files on the Video Cloud service (upload to/remove from Video Cloud, publish/un-publish), can access the Video Cloud module of the (Web) Server Console, and can see the upload queue.

The Cumulus Video Cloud feature can be used only with catalogs that contain some Video Cloud specific fields. These fields are provided in the catalog template for Video Cloud and can be added to any existing catalog from there.

For details on how to add fields to a catalog, see Adding Fields

Cumulus provides a Video Cloud Scheduler action that reads the content of certain Video Cloud related record fields and initiates respective actions (upload to / remove from Video Cloud, publish/un-publish). A Scheduler task with this scheduler action must be set up, specifying the catalogs on which the action shall be performed, and its frequency in time.

NOTE: When a Cumulus Video Cloud license or Video Cloud connectors License is added to your Cumulus system, the Cumulus Scheduler must be restarted in order to make the Video Cloud Scheduler action available.

For details on how to set up a Scheduler task, see Setting Up a Scheduler Task.

Cumulus provides a Video Cloud trigger action that communicates modified values in the Video valid from and Video valid to record fields to the Video Cloud service – but only if the respective video is published (Video Cloud State = Published). Thus, the availability period of published videos can be easily modified. Furthermore, this trigger action can initiate the removal of a video from the Video Cloud after it has been deleted from Cumulus.

Canto recommends to set up the following catalog triggers with the Video Cloud trigger action:

• A field specific trigger that is fired when the Video Cloud Asset Modification Date field is modified.

• Additional field specific triggers must be specified, if field mapping is configured, in order to sync changed field values to the Video Cloud service.