You will need to start paying for any usage after the trial period. You can do this in a number of ways.

• If you do not upgrade, your trial will cease. Your account will then be disabled.
• You can sign up by entering your address and company credentials within the My Magic tab in Magic Publisher.
• You will receive a monthly e-invoice which can be settled by bacs, cheque or by phoning us with your credit card details.

We think we have the smart way of streaming where you only pay for what you use. No choosing a package that you are tied into for a year. No paying any premiums for going over your allocated amount, and no losing any data transfer (minutes) if you don't use it.

We automatically apply discounts the more you use.

The new MAGIC Publisher Version 3 uses the Zencoder cloud to encode your videos and is therefore not reliant on what codecs you have on your computer. Advantages :

• Speed:

  Zencoder is extremely fast – significantly faster than Flix Cloud. It has faster servers, faster encoding tools, faster encoding recipes, and shorter queue times. In fact, Zencoder is designed to offer near-zero queue times, and the average queue time across the entire system is less than 30 seconds.

• Quality:

  Zencoder's H.264 encoding is unmistakably better than Flix Cloud's.

• Compatibility:

  Zencoder supports hundreds of video and audio codecs, including many that Flix Cloud didn't support. It can also handle many corrupt or unusual files, and can usually eliminate problems like audio/video desync.

We have a standard built in analytics service that provides you with the number of hits and data transfer per video.

If you have a Google Analytics account then you can enter the account number in MAGIC and let our team know and you can start to collect your viewing statistics.

We can also integrate with many other analytic tools, e.g Coremetrics.

For a monthly fee you can opt for the in depth, advanced analytics.

You have to accept our Terms & Conditions and our Acceptable Use Policy, however, there is no contractual period with MAGIC Publisher and no license fee. You can leave whenever you like and will only pay for the amount you have used.

The answer is YES. MAGIC Publisher does support H264.

H.264 is a next-generation video compression format. H.264 is also known as MPEG-4 AVC. Developed for use in high definition systems such as HDTV, Blu-ray and HD DVD as well as low resolution portable devices such as Sony's PSP and Apple's iPod, H.264 offers better quality at lower file sizes than both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP (DivX or XviD).

Apple has official adopted H.264 as the format for QuickTime. It is also one of the formats chosen to be supported by both high definition DVD standards, and is destined to be the future standard format for Blu-ray.

H.264 is also sometimes referred to as MP4, again this is technically incorrect. MP4 is a container format much like AVI or MKV and it can be used to “house” many different types of compression codecs, not just H. 264. It is true though that MP4 is a very popular choice for the H.264 format. MP4 should not be confused with MPEG-4 video either.

Captioning is the ability to be able to show synchronized text with the video to improve accessibility for those without speakers or with a hearing impairment.

A playlist is a selection of videos that are shown within one video player on a page.

The videos can be provided as a drop down table, as thumbnail images in the player or just text links. MAGIC Publisher enables you to create players with infinite playlists.

Wthin MAGIC Publisher you can upload any type of file including .pdf, .doc, powerpoint or images, banners or other video media into the asset library.

You can then associate these assets with either videos or multiple videos in different ways.

• Downloadable documents,
• Timed banner or skyscraper adds
• Calls to action such as hyperlinked images
• Pre post or interstitial ads

You can share the videos in a number of ways by sending the video URL link or by sending the embed code by email.