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Smart Workflows designed to help broadcasters, production houses and content aggregators across the media supply chain accelerate content transformation and QC processes This scalable solution is based on active learning workflows which enables media companies to dapt to changing demands in media production, boosts speed to market and accelerates readiness for OTT and international distribution.

Features:

Audio Conformance -Aligning the high-res master video with audio tracks of low-res proxy derivatives to automatically generate a single video asset with multiple audio versions

Subtitle Conformance - Aligning the subtitles in different languages to the corresponding scenes to automatically generate a conformed asset complying with standard Netflix/OTT rules"

Benefits:

• Ready-to-onboard repository of accurately conformed master video feeds, audio feeds and subtitles for OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix, enabling accelerated content distribution.


• Enhance Resource Flexibility - Free up manual bandwidth for creative/subjective tasks by eliminating redundant tasks."


• Boosts Post-Production Efficiency - Reduce redundant content transformation and quality control (QC) processes in the content supply chain."


• Pay per Use Model - Exercise greater control on workflow expenditure by paying only for the assets processed, devoid of committed costs."

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Smart Analytics is an AI-powered solution which allows media companies to track and measure the true ROI for brand sponsorships at live sporting events. It enables data-driven decision-making for sponsors by retrospective analysis of past content to devise effective brand placement and investment strategies for digital branding & promotion.

Unlock New Revenue Opportunities - Enable content monetization opportunities by creating brand-specific highlights through video footage and pictures used in media reports."

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Smart Analytics is a customised AI offering which extracts deep content features and matches it with content performance parameters to allow media organisations to take more data-driven decision around their content. Media companies have realised that they need to move beyond analysing content performance solely on the basis of 3rd part viewership data or user metrics on platforms. This approach leads to a one-dimensional understanding of a program's performance without giving much insights about the content itself - Genre, emotions, character duration and specific objects of interests.

Gain insight into audience preferences - Enables broadcasters to comprehend if their efforts in giving a direction to the show resonate with a positive impact on viewership for diverse target customer segments.

Unlock Competitive Analysis - Get an in-depth comparative viewership analysis for your programme or slot against those of your competitors.

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Smart Workflows is designed to help broadcasters across the media supply chain accelerate content transformation processes This scalable solution is based on active learning workflows which enables media companies to adapt to changing demands in media production, boosts speed to market and accelerates readiness for international distribution.

Features

Detect Textless Elements  -  Identify shots with overlaid text & subtitles in a video and map those to their corresponding textless counterparts. These are commonly present after the end credits in a video asset"

Benefits:

• Increased Time for Creativity - Free up employee bandwidth for creative/subjective tasks by eliminating manual & redundant editing tasks.


• Faster Content Localization - Enable automation of various QC processes in post-production to accelerate international distribution


• Pay per Use Model - Exercise greater control on workflow expenditure by paying only for the assets processed, devoid of committed costs.


• Reduction in costs and effort involved in manual quality control and editing processes.

AthenasOwl Smart Workflows is an AI-powered solution that allows post production teams to synchronise misaligned audio tracks to videos quickly and easily for accelerated content distribution on OTT platforms. By aligning the high-res master video with audio tracks of low-res proxy derivatives, this solution helps content operations teams to automatically generate a single video asset with multiple audio versions.

Features

Shot Transition Detection - Automated detection of transitions between shots in digital video for temporal segmentation of videos.

Video Similarity Detection - Automated detection and mapping of similar shots across multiple digital videos with the purpose of aligning assets.

Audio Similarity Detection - Automated detection and mapping of similar segments across multiple audios with the purpose of aligning assets.

Benefits:

• Ready-to-onboard repository of accurately conformed master video feeds, audio feeds and subtitles for OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix, enabling accelerated content distribution.


• Faster content localization required for international distribution.


• Reduction in costs and effort involved in manual quality control and editing processes.

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This AI enabled application by AthenasOwl enables content operation teams to reduce cloud migration costs by leveraging a self learning solution that automatically detects and remove duplicate videos from large media archives.

Features:

Archive Optimization - Automatically identify duplicate versions of the entire video asset or parts of the asset and retain only the master copy for archiving purposes. This will help in reducing cloud migration costs

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AthenasOwl's AI-powered auto-highlights solution empowers content operation teams at football organizations, clubs and leagues to generate near real-time production of highlights packages based on match highpoints such as goals, red cards, yellow cards, players, brands and more.

Benefits:

• Optimizes current processes and drives more efficient results acro the entire content workflow, contrary to ones solely reliant on manual techniques.


• Enhances turnaround times and efficiency of the processes during peak times.


• Empowers easy repurposing and targeting of content for diverse geographies.


• Eases the task of content production and delivery through multiple platforms.


• Unlock latent content monetization potential through deep search and retrieval enabled by a metadata-enriched content library.

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Enable quick search and discovery of video content. Smart Catalog helps broadcasters & media professionals automate video tagging processes, produces instantaneous content that increases ROI and unlocks new age advertising opportunities like contextual ad placement.

How Smart Catalog can Benefit media companies:

• Enable quick search and discovery - Unleash the hidden value within your video content by generating time coded granular metadata across your assets and track faces, emotions, age, gender, locales, camera shot-angles and more.


• Maximize your ROI - Drive better ROI for existing content with smarter and faster searches for repackaging existing video content.


• Unlock new revenue opportunities - Tap into latent monetisation opportunities by making use of new-age use cases such as contextual ad placement.


• Boost operational efficiency - Reduce manually-reliant tagging tasks with a self-learning model that improves over time as new entities are introduced.


• Accelerate turnaround times - Utilize cloud infrastructure for flexible load handling that enables both horizontal and vertical scaling.


• Achieve consistent accuracy levels - Media-specific contextualization ensures consistent, accurate, and useful outputs to solve the business needs specifically in the media domain.

In today's ever-changing media landscape, broadcasters are dealing with increased consumer demands across the globe while catering to viewers that seek highly personalized content and flexible viewing experience. This changing landscape has presented broadcasters with an opportunity for new revenue streams. To make the most of it, media companies need

to deliver high volumes of broadcast-ready content, across multiple platforms in different formats.

Smart Workflows is an AI-assisted end-to-end automation managed service for content transformation and QC processes leveraged by broadcasters, production houses, and content aggregators across the media supply chain. This integrated, modular and scalable solution based on active learning workflows enables effective utilization of the workforce providing an ability to adapt to changing demands in media production, faster speed to market and accelerated readiness for OTT and international distribution.

AthenasOwl Smart Workflows is an AI powered solution that enables post production teams to align the subtitles in different languages to the corresponding scenes to automatically generate a conformed asset complying with standard Netflix/OTT rules.

Features

Shot Transition Detection - Automated detection of transitions between shots in digital video for temporal segmentation of videos.

Subtitle-to-Audio Synchronization - Ensures the relative timing of subtitles and audio parts during post-production in an automated fashion.

Timed Text Conformity - Tailor-made processes to conform subtitles to the said rules of any OTT platforms in an automated fashion.

Benefits:

• Ready-to-onboard repository of accurately conformed master video feeds, audio feeds and subtitles for OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix, enabling accelerated content distribution.


• Faster content localization required for international distribution.


• Reduction in costs and effort involved in manual quality control and editing processes.

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With this solution, news organizations can employ AI to generate rich content metadata which can empower faster and more accurate search and retrieval across the news content archives. With it's custom machine learning model, news companies can detect and analyze visual elements like:

• Personality/anchor/reporter identification


• Production aspects: Telecast format, split-screen, graphics assist, logistics (locale)


• Story information: Story, sub-story, genres, format

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The way fans wish to view and interact with sport content is changing. Explore how AI-enabled smart systems and applications can empower global sport broadcasters, clubs and leagues to improve fan engagement, reduce manually reliant time-consuming processes, and increase ROI by leveraging existing content.AthenasOwl Smart Catalog for Sports is an AI-based solution that generates rich content metadata to enable better search and retrieval within sport media archives. With media domain contextualised machine learning models, sport organizations can track and generate granular metadata such as player faces, emotions, football pitch locales, custom entities (such as yellow/red card, league trophy, etc) and more.

Benefits:

• Enable quick search and discovery - Unleash the hidden values in your videos by generating time-coded granular metadata across assets, tracking player faces, emotions, age, gender, locales, camera shot-angles, and more.


• Maximize your ROI - Drive better ROI with smarter and faster searches for repackaging existing video content.


• Boost operational efficiency - Replace manual tagging with a self-learning model that improves over time when new entities are introduced.


• Accelerate turnaround times - Utilize cloud infrastructure for flexible load handling that enables both horizontal and vertical scaling.