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IBM Enterprise Content Delivery Network, when used with IBM Enterprise Video Streaming, enables organizations to relieve bottlenecks associated with delivering security-enhanced video to single or multiple corporate connections.

Process

ECDN protects your network by offering flexible and scalable enterprise video delivery solutions, allowing scale through caching a single version of a video asset that is then delivered across a network to viewers. Each viewer pulls video content from the appropriate node, with built-in methodology to improve redundancy and reduce strain through multiple installations. Furthermore, this does not disrupt normal video delivery over a worldwide network for remote viewers. Performance can also be monitored in real-time as well through a web-based portal, which can visual use across the network.

The solution forgoes costly hardware deployments and can be installed on shared or dedicated hardware as a virtual server and in conjuncture with firewalls, with included flexibility for multiple instances to support multiple ISPs or multiple offices. New ECDN nodes can also be added and configured within the central interface.

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IBM Enterprise Video Streaming is an end-to-end solution for internal communications, simplifying the process of delivering town halls, conducing employee training and general department communication.

Process

The cloud based platform enhances workforce engagement and collaboration through secure, internal facing video delivered through a streaming platform. Content is secured through SSO (Single Sign-On) that can link up to a corporate directory, allowing employees to use familiar credentials to login.

Included in the service are numerous features ranging from automatic archiving of material, multi-administrative capabilities (with audit trail) and tapping into AI analysis through being infused with IBM Watson. This is done through speech-to-text processes that develop transcripts and captions for content. These are then used to enhance internal search, allowing employees and other stakeholders to not just turn up relevant content but also to jump to a specific moment in a video where a phrase might have been mentioned.

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IBM Video Streaming is a comprehensive, cloud-based online video platform for live or on-demand content to an external audience. Managed from a dashboard by account administrators, the service supports both ease-of-use and complex setups.

Process

The solution is setup to reach large audiences, both through compatibility and scalability. To broaden potential audiences, content is automatically transcoded in the cloud for delivery to virtually any device, with adaptive bitrate support to reach a range of connection speeds. Content also utilizes multiple CDNs through a software defined content delivery network (SD-CDN) layer, online video is delivered with improved geographic reach and reliability by having a built-in backup process with intelligent traffic management. In addition, content can be monitored in real-time from a web-based panel.

Through included features, IBM Video Streaming also supports numerous video marketing activities as well. This includes a built-in, clickable video overlays, to provide CTAs for content. A registration gate can also be added, enabling the generation of leads and also for their activity to be tracked as well for lead qualification.

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IBM’s OTT solution unites powerful content management capabilities with robust catalog management and subscriber administration functionality. IBM’s M&E video platform spans the entire content lifecycle. This includes not just catalog and subscriber management, but also down to content ingest as well. It provides a single and complete platform to seamlessly manage and administer all components of a content streaming service.

Process

The solution is built around maximizing revenue from every user by flexibly controlling access to ad-supported (AVOD), subscription-based (SVOD), or mixed- model video services. It allows you to monetize your video service with easy connections to in-app or direct billing providers. IBM Video Streaming for OTT Video Management allows you to get a unified view of subscriber growth trends or view activity on each device.

IBM’s powerful platform also includes new IBM Watson integrations as well to help content owners deliver relevant and contextual video assets to viewers while also generating automated closed captions.

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IBM Watson Captioning is a solution that generates automatic closed captions for video using artificial intelligence. It automates the previously time consuming and costly process of creating captions for both on-demand and live video content, empowering content owners and broadcasters to quickly generate captions.

Process

To automatically generate accurate captions, several different technological capabilities are used. This includes speech recognition, the ability to analyze audio and convert speech to a machine-readable format like text and audio recognition, the ability to separate noises like clapping from actual speech.

Caption generation is managed from a web based interface, allowing videos to be loaded into it and offers manual editing of the AI generated captions. Furthermore, the AI learns as more content is captioned and edited, while the learning can be managed from this same web interface.This includes the ability for hyper-local training as well, being able to teach the artificial intelligence on concepts like local politicians, accents, landmarks and more.

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Watson Captioning Live helps you streamline your closed captioning process by using cognitive speech-to-text applications that deliver automated captions in a fraction of the time. Users can upload a glossary of specialized terms that arms Watson with greater context and improves accuracy at no additional cost.

The result is a trainable, scalable solution that helps you save time and money while improving captions by providing:

- Flexible, accessible technology that can seamlessly integrate with existing station equipment and is always available
- Low cost and low risk with minimal up-front investment and a billing model that allows you to pay only for the minutes of captioning you use
- Self-learning technology that remembers corrections to constantly evolve and improve accuracy over time
- Positioning for future expansion with access to IBM’s industry-leading AI solutions to help you unlock deeper value in your video content.

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Timed Text Speech is ideally suited for content creators who need to produce captions and subtitles for time-sensitive content that must be aired on TV or the Internet with short turnaround times, as well as short-form content such as promos that require captioning. It also offers a time-efficient solution for captioning service companies looking for new tools to speed up their service, and a cost-effective and easy-to-use automated transcription option for corporations, government organizations, and educational institutions wishing to bring captioning in-house.

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The industry standard Audio Description product. It is part of an extensive range of products that can configured to create a sophisticated AD workflow.

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Easy to use tool for creating delivery format Audio Description files. Options are available to produce Premix WAV file, Mono WAV, DTT pair (Mono on one track, control track on the other), Premix video (creates a media file with Premixed audio track) and new M4A output.

QC report option provides a detailed report from checking a number of ESEF file parameters. This is available in a number of formats including a human readable formatted report.

The Compiler process can be automated using an XML driven batch complier service.

 

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Runs on generic Windows Server hardware and supports network or ASI delivery

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InSync Technology, experts in software motion compensated standards conversion, have partnered with Hiscale, specialists in high-performance, scalable software products, to deliver a flexible on-demand conversion solution for broadcasters and content owners of any size.

The integration will benefit broadcasters and content owners who face unexpected needs for frame rate and format conversion, such as when footage that was expected to be 1080 50i turns out to be 720 30p, and there’s no option to reshoot, or when a client requests a clip for integration into a UHD 59p program, but the only version on the server is HD 50i.

Keeping a standards converter on standby for such situations is not cost-effective. That's why InSync and Hiscale have joined forces to create a new option for pay-per-use standards conversion — FrameFormer for FLICS. With FrameFormer for FLICS, users pay for time-limited use on their preferred cloud platform, so there’s no large upfront cost to start using a new converter, and the customer avoids being locked into a costly contract with a single vendor.

FrameFormer is a high quality, motion compensated standards converter that offers frame rate and format conversion including de-interlacing, up/down/cross conversion, aspect ratio conversion, cadence management, and SDR/HDR/WCG tools for all types of content, from sub-QCIF up to 8K and beyond. FrameFormer has been carefully designed and finely tuned over many years to provide reliable conversions with automated settings, enabling fast deployment without lengthy parameter setup.

Accessing FrameFormer via FLICS provides the ultimate in flexibility, enabling customers to use their in-house processing resources as far as they can stretch, then offload peak demand into the cloud as required. FLICS incorporates transcoding, open APIs for integration into any preferred workflow, auto-scaling to handle incoming peak demand, and load distribution to make the most of available resources.

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PROFESSIONAL ONLINE TOOLS FOR SUBTITLING AND CAPTIONING. ONLINE ACCESS FROM ANY COMPUTER ANY TIME, WINDOWS OR MAC.

 Create and edit captions and subtitles in any language online, using simple and intuitive web interface. State-of-the-art tools allow frame-accurate text timing with advanced timeline, video grid for precise caption positioning on the screen, audio waveform and scene-change detection for accurate subtitle spotting.

Our tools feature import and export in almost any caption and subtitles format, including TTML/DFXP, VTT, SCC, CAP, EBU-STL, SRT, IMSC1, PAC, 890 and many more. We also support generating image-based subtitles for DVD/Blu-ray/DCP authoring.

Powerful Pro apps allow you to run automated QA scripts to check and fix your files, as well as customize hotkeys and project settings.

Create and edit captions and subtitles in any language

Author, edit, and repurpose timed text files. Accurate positioning on the video grid. For TV, web, mobile delivery, in any language.

Translate from timed template to another language

Create second language subtitles with timed template. Import and export in variety of formats. Perform automated QC checks.

QC subtitles or send for online reviewing and editing

Real-time preview of videos with captions and subtitles. Share project for online review or editing. No need to download or install anything.

Convert any subtitle format

Convert between caption and subtitle formats. Generate image-based subtitles for DVD/BD.

Transcribe

Create script files and dialog lists

Burn & Encode

Burn captions or subtitles into video with just a few clicks. Render MP4/MOV (h.264), ProRes HQ, etc.

COMPARE

A simple tool to compare two subtitle files side by side. Compare text, timing, positioning.

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InSync Technology, experts in software motion compensated standards conversion, have partnered with Dalet, specialists in high-performance, media solutions, to deliver a flexible conversion solution for broadcasters and content owners of any size.

High quality motion compensated frame rate conversion is now available as an optional upgrade within the Dalet Amberfin media processing platform. This will benefit broadcasters and content owners who face unexpected needs for frame rate and format conversion, such as when footage that was expected to be 1080 50i turns out to be 720 30p, and there’s no option to reshoot, or when a client requests a clip for integration into a UHD 59p program, but the only version on the server is HD 50i.

Using FrameFormer's unique and advanced algorithms file-based content can now be converted with the smoothest motion possible.

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Producers and distributors of high-end content are challenged to cost-effectively localise their content. Limecraft Subtitling and Localisation services allow producers and distributors to automatically create an initial subtitle template at a fraction of the cost compared to conventional methods, and to subsequently add other languages at marginal cost.

Extending their know-how of setting up production-grade workflows that make use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve productivity ratios, Limecraft cracked the challenge of automatically creating subtitles in both the original language as well as in non-domestic languages. The software is available as a service through their cloud platform Limecraft Flow.

 

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Looking at LIVE event production in the cloud?

Preparing content for LIVE distribution to a global marketplace?

Performing LIVE remastering of legacy archive content?

FrameFormer Live is a turnkey software application which provides a single channel of motion compensated frame rate conversion of live video streams.

It can handle input and output of SD,HD and optionally UHD/4K IP streams supporting IP based streaming protocols (SRT,RTP,RTMP,TS) & codecs (H264,H265,MP2)

Full service set-up (decode, encode, scheduling, alarms etc) and monitoring via web based UI.

Interoperability with other business systems i.e control, monitoring, scheduling via RESTful API.

The software can be deployed on premise or in the cloud - based on minimum hardware recommendations

 

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Cambria Live works as a standalone, all-in-one live studio encoder or as a part of a network of multiple Cambria Live workstations overseen by Cambria Broadcast Manager (BCM).

Playlist Creation/Import

Create playlists with a group of files for repeated playback, highlight clips edited in Cambria Live, or a playlist to be muxed with a separate audio track.

Powerpoint Input

Users can integrate PowerPoint presentations into a live broadcast for E-learning and seminars.

Cambria Live Controller

Cambria Live Controller integrates seamlessly with your existing playout server and ad scheduling systems while mixing live and file assets. Customizable controllers communicate with these systems and control Cambria Live’s engine via API.

Audio Level Control

Allows users to adjust audio levels on the fly while live streaming.Cambria Live EditCreate multiple video clips on the fly during an event by simply setting in and out points on Cambria Live Edit timeline.

File Recording

Simultaneously stream and record a broadcast as a TS or MP4 file.

Multi-view Function

Cambria Live can replicate the feel of a multi camera broadcast by creating virtual cameras in software that can be cued as if you had multiple studio cameras.

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IBM Watson Captioning is a solution that generates automatic closed captions for video using artificial intelligence. It automates the previously time consuming and costly process of creating captions for both on-demand and live video content, empowering content owners and broadcasters to quickly generate captions.

Process

To automatically generate accurate captions, several different technological capabilities are used. This includes speech recognition, the ability to analyze audio and convert speech to a machine-readable format like text and audio recognition, the ability to separate noises like clapping from actual speech.

Caption generation is managed from a web based interface, allowing videos to be loaded into it and offers manual editing of the AI generated captions. Furthermore, the AI learns as more content is captioned and edited, while the learning can be managed from this same web interface.This includes the ability for hyper-local training as well, being able to teach the artificial intelligence on concepts like local politicians, accents, landmarks and more.

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With nearly a decade of developing AI and computer vision tools for the world’s number one interactive video platform at WIREWAX, and with another two decades of experience in the video and broadcast space, the team identified ways to leverage the platform’s award-winning image processing technologies in the big media sector too.

Lightning fast; face and object recognition, segmentation, fingerprinting, speech recognition and many other unparalleled tools available in the suite has changed the game for the broadcast and media industry.

Being able to scan entire archives of video assets and create a powerful, digital understanding of videos, programmes and movies with this core technology has enabled large TV and movie studios to leverage data and digital tools and services like never before.

 

We’ve not met a media business on the planet that doesn’t have a digitised asset problem. Lack of metadata, no understanding of content, zero monetisation capabilities and gigantic and disorganized archives. Not to mention expensive asset management, overpriced syndication and VOD preparation, and notoriously slow and extortionate manual services.

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Digital Nirvana’s MetadataIQ is known for accelerating the speed of content creation while simplifying and automating the metadata generation process. MetadatorIQ is a secure, scalable platform to automate the process of metadata generation for production, pre-production, and live content residing in AVID. It aids in a secure and efficient generation of metadata Avid based assets. The 100% automatic generation and ingestion of relevant metadata along with locators into AVID helps editors to accurately identify relevant content, thereby saving time and effort.

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Digital Nirvana's Trance opens door to AI-empowered transcription, captioning, translation; anytime and anywhere. Trance is an enterprise-level, cloud-based web application from Digital Nirvana integrated with cutting edge STT technology and cloud-based architecture, leading to significant efficiency gains. Honoring our long term commitment to provide services to the media industry, Digital Nirvana created the platform as an internal tool for providing customers with exceptional closed-captioning, metadata generation, and transcription services.