Getting Started with Brightcove Video Connect for Adobe Experience Manager

This topic provides an overview of Brightcove Video Connect for the Adobe Experience Manager.

Plug-in Version	Documentation	Download	Compatibility Notes
5.5.3	Same as 5.5.2	Plugin with Source	Removes hardcoded ingest profile if no value selected in the AEM OSGi config
5.5.2	Overview Installation Configuration Using the Connector	Plugin with Source	Supports AEM 6.5
5.5.1	Overview Installation Configuration Using the Connector	Plug-in with Source	Supports AEM 6.2, AEM 6.3 and AEM 6.4 Uses Brightcove CMS & Dynamic Ingest API's Embeds Brightcove HTML5 Player Supports Classic UI and Touch UI Uses AEM asset manager Added UTF-8 multi-language support Extended Proxy support for S3 video upload
5.5.0 (EOL)	Overview Installation Configuration Using the Connector	EOL	End of Life as of January 1, 2020 Supports AEM 6.2 and AEM 6.3 Uses Brightcove CMS & Dynamic Ingest API's Embeds Brightcove HTML5 Player Supports Classic UI and Touch UI Uses AEM asset manager
4.2.0 (EOL)	Click Here	EOL	End of Life as of December 31, 2017 Supports AEM 6.2 Uses Brightcove Media API for video management Uses Brightcove CMS API for player embed Embeds Brightcove Legacy Flash SmartPlayer Embeds Brightcove HTML5 Player Supports Classic UI
4.1.2 (EOL)	Click Here	EOL	End of Life as of December 31, 2017 Supports AEM 6.1 Uses Brightcove Media API for video management Uses Brightcove CMS API for player embed Embeds Brightcove Legacy Flash SmartPlayer Embeds Brightcove HTML5 Player Supports Classic UI

For help with this connector, please fill out this worksheet and include it with a support ticket to Brightcove customer support.

AEM Mandatory Upgrade Explanation

The Brightcove Connector for AEM, v4.2 and previous versions, ceased to function at the end of 2017 because we retired the underlying API’s and Flash Player used by the Connector. We updated the Brightcove Connector in the v5.0 release to use our current APIs and HTML5 player. The 5.0 Brightcove Connector supports AEM versions 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 in both Classic UI and Touch UI modes and now synchronizes video assets between Brightcove and the AEM Digital Asset Manager (DAM).

Actions Required

If you are currently using an AEM/CQ release prior to AEM 6.0 and are also using the Brightcove Connector, you will need to upgrade to a newer version of AEM and the Connector per the discussion below.

If you are currently using AEM 6.0/6.1 with the v4.1 Connector or if you are currently using AEM 6.2 with the v4.2 Connector you may to continue using your existing Connector version under the following three conditions:

1. You do not require Touch UI support
2. You only use the Connector to embed video and you are managing your video content directly in Brightcove Studio and are not using the Video Manager (/brightcove/admin) in the Brightcove Connector.
3. You are not moving to AEM 6.3 or AEM 6.4

You will need to upgrade to AEM 6.2 or AEM 6.3 or AEM 6.4 and you will need to use the new v5.0 Connector under any of the following three conditions:

1. You require Touch UI support
2. You use the Connector to upload videos and/or edit metadata
3. You need to keep a copy of your master video in the AEM DAM