1. What is Faculte's vision and mission?
We started in 2007 with a simple mission. We wanted to help professionals and organizations use media to share knowledge and information online. We want to enable people to quickly and easily assemble media and other content to create captivating marketing, training and business communications.
2. What's with the name?
The Middle English Dictionary's top two definitions of "Faculte" are: 1. The power, ability, facility, opportunity, possibility to do something 2. A field of knowledge or experience. We believe that the name "Faculte" captures in one word, the essence of our entire mission statement wherein our goal is to help people and organizations share and sell knowledge online. Cool huh, to find one word that captures our entire mission and vision?
1. What is the Broadcast Studio?
The Broadcast Studio is a multimedia communications platform that enables you to create interactive video presentations, called Broadcasts.
2. What is a Broadcast?
A broadcast is an interactive video presentation that can be made up of video, images, audio and documents as well as content created through the Broadcast Studio's tools to present such as narration, annotation, and webcam recordings. A Broadcast plays through Faculte's universal multimedia player and can be easily embedded in different sizes on a website or blog, linked to on its own dedicated page or embedded as a widget.
3. How much does it cost?
Basic accounts are free of charge. Users of basic accounts have access to full production and limited sharing functionality, but have no access to premium features (such as branding, collaboration, etc.), and limited number of views per month (more views can be purchased for an additional charge). Premium accounts are charged monthly subscription fees, and the pricing structure is available on the Sign up page.
4. How do I earn money from my broadcasts?
Users of both basic and premium accounts can use Faculte's pricing and payment feature to charge and collect payments for their broadcasts. All you need to do is to tell us the email address associated with your Paypal account. After setting the price for your broadcast, go ahead and distribute the link on your site, blog or newsletter. Viewers who click on that link will need to pay for viewing the broadcast. It's really that simple.
Faculte will charge transaction fee on the sale of every broadcast purchase. The transaction fee is calculated as follows:
| Broadcast Price | Faculte's Transaction Fee |
|---|---|
| $1-5 | $1 |
| $5.01 - $10 | 20% of broadcast price |
| >$10 | $2 + 15% charge over $10 (example: the fee on a $16 broadcast is $2+(15% of $6)=$2.90) |
At the beginning of every month, Faculte will disburse to the account owner's PayPal account the total payments collected during the previous month for all the paid broadcasts purchased from that account, minus the Faculte transaction fee, provided that the balance in the account exceeds $50.
5. Do I need to install any software to use Faculte?
Faculte requires no software to be downloaded or installed. All that you require is your browser and the latest Adobe Flash Player plugin, which you can get here for free. All files and data created reside on secure Faculte servers.
6. What browsers does it work on?
We have tested it on the most popular web browsers: Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7 and 8), Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome on Windows XP, Windows Vista and the Mac. If there are additional browsers or operating systems that are critical to your needs, let us know!
7. Are there any limits on creating broadcasts?
In theory, there is no time limit. The length of the broadcast really depends on the context. For marketing, it will probably be shorter. For training it may be longer. Our customers have created broadcasts that vary in length from a quick 1-min biz communication show-and-tell, to 10 mins marketing/demos broadcasts, to up to 30 mins product tutorial and training broadcasts.
8. How do I share a broadcast?
Once you make a broadcast, you have several options. You can send the broadcast as a link through email. Or you can copy the URL for the broadcast (each broadcast gets its own URL) and use that within documents, emails, web pages or on social networks. Or you can copy the embed code and embed the broadcast as a widget within your site or blog page.
9. How do I control the privacy of a broadcast?
When you make a broadcast, you can specify whether you want the broadcast to be visible to everyone or whether you wish to place a password on it. You can even come back later and add a password to a broadcast that has already been distributed. With this very simple mechanism, you can now control access to all content that belongs to you.
10. What is the difference between a broadcast and a file?
A broadcast is an interactive video presentation created using the Broadcast Studio. A broadcast can contain anything from pre-produced videos to a mash-up of media with narration and annotation. Since a broadcast is always hosted on faculte.com and accessed through a link, it is streamed directly online and not downloaded. That means the content is always fresh and current. A file on the other hand is exactly that - a file!
11. What kind of files can I include in my broadcast?
You can include videos, images, audio, documents (like word, powerpoint and pdfs). You can also record your voice through a microphone or record video through your web cam.
12. I can make a podcast or record a video using other tools. Why do I need Faculte?
A podcast is great for users to download audio and listen to on the go. A fully edited and pre-produced video is great if you have the time and skill set to use video-editing programs or the budget to hire someone else. YouTube is great for sharing lower quality videos for free. But what you need to create a rich piece of content - that can either be video, audio and a presentation or a mashup of different media with your own narration? What if you want to control that piece of content you have created - either by placing a password on it or by setting a price on it for sale? What if you want to be able to distribute this anywhere and have it maintain your brand and fit your look and feel? Well, Faculte is the only way for you to do all of these things. So enjoy Faculte!
13. What's next for Faculte?
You tell us! Seriously, we want you to tell us what you would like to see in our product. We have a long wish list of our own but would love to hear from you.
Stay tuned for updates on the Faculte blog.