Industrial Brothers– a full-service animation studio that creates and produces its own children’s content– thrives on a collaborative model with its artists working together in close physical proximity. When the studio needed to implement remote working for its team members due to the pandemic, Qumulo stepped in to recreate the studio experience and deep collaboration with production in the cloud. Within days, Qumulo’s file data platform replicated Industrial Brothers’ creative workflows on the AWS cloud, enabling the artists to keep production timelines on track.
Secure content packaging with ExpressPlay DRM and AWS Media Services
In today’s OTT video streaming universe, the number of service contenders has risen dramatically with the latest entrants like Disney+ and NBC Universal’s Peacock service. With so much choice, competition for eyeballs is higher than ever. These days viewers of course expect access to content anytime and on any device, with limited patience for operators that do not meet such expectations. This makes it challenging for operators to effectively monetize their services while also protecting the content against piracy in various forms.
Cinesite Studios Taps Qumulo to Bring Motion Pictures to Audiences Faster with Cloud Rendering
Cinesite Studios turned to Qumulo to leap over technical barriers in its creative workflows, and deliver exceptional imagery for blockbuster motion pictures faster than the studio ever thought possible.
With Qumulo and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cinesite’s animation and VFX pipelines leveraged Qumulo’s hybrid file data services in order to deliver compelling images Cinesite was able to render 16K video at scale on Qumulo’s file system running on AWS with industry-leading levels of speed and agility.
Cloud Education: How Ravensbourne University adopted AWS for live video, and fresh thinking
In this session hear how Ravensbourne University in the UK created a live-streaming workflow, using services from AWS to reach hundreds of schools with educational events featuring the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Driving the content supply chain: How IABM members are facilitating the new media factory
Earlier this year, IABM unveiled the results of a major project to provide a new model to reflect how the industry works today. In just a few years, the industry has moved on almost unrecognizably, which is why we set about researching and constructing the new model which would not only reflect the way the industry is today, but also accommodate future developments and changes. The result is the new IABM BaM™ Content Chain: from Creator to Consumer. The BaM™ Content Chain moves away from an inward-focused, product-centric view of the broadcast and media business, to one based on the creative, operational, economic and technical activities supporting the content supply chain: mapping how a piece of content gets from creator to consumer. It describes the industry in the same way that broadcast and media companies themselves think, using the same terminology. We asked a number of IABM member companies to tell us how they are adapting to broadcast and media end-users’ new ‘media factory’ approach that has given rise to the BaM™ Content Chain, how their products and services work across and within the chain, and what they see coming next. Integrating the content supply chain First, we asked respondents...
Amazon Web Services interview at IBC 2018
IABM TV interview with Simon Frost (Head of Marketing & Business, AWS Elemental) on new solutions
IABM Member Blog – Accelerated Ingest to Cloud Services
We are in an era of data inundation. According to a report by IDC, by 2020 there will be as many digital bits in existence on the Internet and in storage devices as there are known stars in the universe.
This article discusses the technical reasons behind this challenge, explores the pros and cons of data transfer options provided by cloud vendors, and introduces Signiant Flight, the fastest and most flexible way to move data to and from cloud services.
