Video Archiving

Give your audiences the chance to watch your video content anytime, anywhere. Our archiving service offers you endless hard drive space so that you can upload as many videos as you like. We can manage your archives, upload your videos, and even convert VHS to digital media. Additionally, our services take advantage of the most recent Internet technologies so that you can get the most out of your archive.

Features and Benefits

As the perfect companion service to our streaming solutions, archiving lets you post as many videos as you like on your website. For local access stations, this means that you can post important videos for your residents to see whenever they like. For example, town meetings and major events can be kept on record to ensure greater government transparency and catalogued for future reference.

Unlike many of our competitors, the major features and benefits of LightWay’s archiving solutions are:

• Unlimited hard drive space for posting unlimited videos
• Multi-platform compatibilities (i.e. Windows Media, Quicktime, Blackberries, iPhones, and more)
• Minimal load time and instant fast-forward video features
• Video indexing capabilities
• Organized online video record keeping
• Video archive instant search bar for your viewers
• LightWay’s own Automatic Stream Recording (ASR) that allows streams to be automatically uploaded
• LightWay’s own web-based Commander Suite software that allows clients to manage their archives easily.

How is LightWay archiving better than sites like YouTube and Vimeo?

Although sites like YouTube and Vimeo offer free online archiving, that is about as far as their benefits go. Unlike LightWay, their services lack versatility, professionalism, extensive user management, and viewer maximization capabilities.

For example, many local access stations find that using sites like YouTube forces them to saturate their websites with disorganized and hard-to-navigate video collections. Unsurprisingly, this makes it especially difficult for viewers to locate town meetings and other types of videos in online records.

Other major drawbacks include:

• Unwanted advertisements on embedded videos
• Media file size limits that force you to break up longer videos
• Lack of indexing capabilities
• Unpredictable load times and buffering times
• Inability to catalog video collections for easy viewer usage
• Amateur-looking video window frames

How It Works

LightWay Archiving works via Commander Suite, our own unique Internet-based software that allows our subscribers to access their website (and their archives), from any Internet connection. With this software, subscribers can:

• Edit their websites
• Upload files
• Manage their archives
• Connect and communicate with their staff
• Monitor real-time statistics about their websites (including their  streams and archives).

It is included with every LightWay media-based website.

Hardware

This service requires no additional hardware because videos are uploaded and stored securely on LightWay’s servers.

Pricing

Our archiving solutions only cost a flat rate of $1,000 per year.