The IABM Technology and Trends Roadmap isn’t just for industry technologists to use as a reference. IABM has discovered industry execs using it as a starting point for their keynote speeches: product line managers are using it to plot their own products; and corporate board members get a better understanding of where the company’s products sit on the adoption curve, hence a better grasp or risks vs gross margins. This also assists marketing activities by giving an indication of how best to promote products within M&E and adjacent/vertical market areas.
TotalMedia’s AI exploration for broadcasting
The world of broadcasting has seen incredible change, from silent films to the high-definition digital content we enjoy today, accessible across various platforms. Now, the industry appears ready for another exciting evolution, driven by the potential of Artificial Intelligence. TotalMedia is actively involved in this exploration of AI’s possibilities for broadcasting. We focus on using AI to enhance various aspects, aiming to improve efficiency, audience engagement, and creative freedom. We believe our solutions can contribute to shaping how audiences experience media in the future.
HPE – Is sustainability compatible with AI in the media and entertainment industry?
When none other than Tyler Perry halts an $800 million studio expansion after seeing a text-to-video AI demo, you know something major is happening in media and entertainment. AI isn’t new to the industry—Netflix has used machine learning (ML) to serve up recommendations since the early 2000s—but generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing more than distribution and marketing. GenAI is primed to change how film, television, and music are imagined and produced.
NStarX – Can GenAI help with better visibility on the outcome of film making?
Financing Movie Making requires convergence of investors, bankers and several financial institutions coming together. The entire movie making process is complex across the lifecycle of pre-production, production, post-production, distribution etc.
As a producer of a movie, the intent is to ensure the success of the content (movie) and make financial profit. The entire moving making process results in a lot of data generation (from scripts, marketing assets, actors, posters, trailers, props, exchange of information, ideas and so many other aspects across the lifecycle).
Can AI or GenAI help with finding patterns through the latitude of data across the movie making lifecycle? Can it help with prediction of success of movies that allows producers, directors, financiers to take informed and wise decisions for moving making? NStarX Data Scientists have been looking at this problem for a while now!
Genelec – Sustainability: we’re all in this together
With the current climate crisis acting as a daily reminder of the scale of the problems facing us globally, it’s essential that we as an industry all commit to being part of the solution by putting sustainability at the very heart of our business. At Genelec we don’t see this as a regulatory hurdle to overcome or an opportunity to try and ‘greenwash’ a corporate image to make ourselves look better, but something that is crucial for the broadcast sector to survive and thrive.
Aximmetry Technologies 3D cleanplate feature – NAB 2023 BaM Award winner – Create
The essence of virtual production is to present a perfect illusion of reality. Aximmetry virtual production platform has to create a close to perfect virtual environment in real-time to be able to immerse viewers in the virtual world. To preserve this illusion of reality for the audience the 3D background has to move in sync with the real camera. This is the reason why most advanced production facilities use camera tracking today and this is why the Aximmetry software is compatible with all camera tracking solutions.
Poised for mass adoption? Synthesized voices for the media and entertainment industry – Take 1
Synthesized speech is nothing new. We’ve long been accustomed to hearing the robotic tones of computer-generated voices in messaging systems, access services and, more recently, in virtual assistant technologies like Siri and Alexa. But we’d never consider replacing the talent in our media productions with a synthesized voice. Or would we?
5G and the Future of Broadcast – BT Media and Broadcast
2022 was a ground-breaking year for BT Media and Broadcast, characterised by many firsts. Namely, using the power of 5G technology to deliver truly engaging broadcast experiences, placing sports fans at the very heart of the action.
Vislink 5G Wireless Camera Technology Supports New Broadcast Innovations
Wireless camera systems provide the freedom to roam a live event, to get to the heart of the action and offer high impact shots to the event director. Wireless camera systems have a reputation for delivering high and guaranteed quality images with very low end-to-end latencies – enabling the director to have the creative freedom to cut between camera systems at will.
Creating XR content
XR is one of the trendiest and most recent flavours of Virtual Reality, and many understand it as the usage of virtual backgrounds, displayed on large LED video walls, for movies, drama, or live events. However, the concept of XR (Extended Reality) goes far beyond these applications, which are often spectacular, but also do not take advantage of the many possibilities this technology can provide.