Case Study: The Great Courses unlocks new revenue and broadens digital distribution with AWS Elemental

The Great Courses - Customer Case Study

The Great Courses, a market leader in educational media with more than 400 courses (nearly 6,000 hours) taught by top university professors, faced a distribution challenge: much of its high-quality video catalog existed only on DVD, limiting reach and revenue. The company needed to convert a large, growing library to web-friendly formats and expand delivery platforms quickly without disrupting existing workflows.

Using Elemental Server to transcode full‑raster ProRes masters into H.264 and Windows Media files — with image processing for noise reduction, deinterlacing, cropping and logo insertion — The Great Courses rapidly digitized legacy content. The solution delivered faster‑than‑real‑time performance, high output quality, easy integration and responsive support, enabling digital downloads and wider distribution, unlocking new revenue from dormant titles while reducing operating costs and workflow complexity.

The Great Courses

Daniel Shine

Technical Advisor, The Great Courses