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Echo360 and Epiphan partner to bring Pearl capture to EchoVideo
Epiphan Video and Echo360 are announcing a new partnership that brings Epiphan’s Pearl family of capture appliances to EchoVideo.
This collaboration gives higher education institutions greater flexibility in how they deploy lecture capture, combining EchoVideo’s video platform with Epiphan’s dedicated, multi-source capture hardware.
EchoVideo is widely used as the lecture capture workflow and video management platform across higher education. Through this partnership, institutions will be able to add a reliable hardware foundation while maintaining the experience instructors already depend on.
This approach enables AV and IT teams to standardize on EchoVideo while expanding classroom capabilities with purpose-built capture devices designed for long-term deployment.
As an early adopter, Brad Leenstra, an AV/IT Specialist at McMaster University puts it: “The partnership between EchoVideo and Epiphan is exciting as it provides important flexibility and expanded opportunities for our procurement and deployment strategies. It also unlocks new possibilities for how we might shape new AV designs and grow our lecture capture footprint across campus. Combining EchoVideo’s app-based CMS integration with Epiphan’s centrally-managed device presets also makes connecting and configuring hardware a very quick and easy process.”
Epiphan Pearl appliances are dedicated capture systems designed to record multiple classroom sources, including instructor cameras, presentation content, and room audio.
With automated scheduling, capture can:
Because Pearl systems use dedicated hardware encoding, they avoid the instability commonly associated with PC-based capture solutions, helping reduce downtime and support requirements.
As classrooms evolve, institutions need to capture more than just a camera and slides.
Pearl appliances support up to six simultaneous video sources, enabling more flexible room designs that can include document cameras, lab setups, additional camera angles, and other AV inputs.
This gives institutions the freedom to design classrooms around teaching needs while maintaining a consistent EchoVideo workflow.
From standard classrooms to lecture halls and specialized learning spaces, Epiphan provides a scalable hardware platform for future EchoVideo deployments.
With centralized monitoring and control through Epiphan Edge, AV and IT teams can manage device fleets more efficiently, improving uptime and simplifying large-scale deployments.
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to making video learning more accessible, flexible, and reliable for institutions worldwide.
By combining EchoVideo’s platform with Epiphan’s capture appliances, institutions will be able to extend the value of their existing investments while delivering more engaging and dependable learning experiences.
The integration is available now on Pearl-2, Pearl Mini, and Pearl Nexus. Learn about EchoVideo on Pearl on the integration page.