Trance: AI-enabled world of Transcription, Captioning, and Translation; anytime & 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. In this webinar we discussed how AI is transforming subtitling, translation, and transcription and covered key concepts around;
● Importing media into Trance
● Creating, viewing and editing transcripts in a single window
● Configuring presets and single-click generation of closed captions in Pro Window and Caption Editor Window
● Automatically translating to a secondary language
● Exporting caption sidecars in all industry-standard formats
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Software as a Service is here to stay – It’s the sector that’s predicted to hit well over $600 billion in global value by 2023 (FinancesOnline). Let’s recap – SaaS is the prime method of software delivery, where software and applications are hosted remotely via a vendor. SaaS applications are made available to customers through a network, which often requires a regular subscription to access. Here at PlayBox we’ve championed the countless benefits of truly utilising the cloud with cloud-native SaaS – see Cosmos Technology – and we’re here to share some of those benefits with you.
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In this IABM TV Panel, Lisa Collins (Head of Membership Engagement, IABM) talks to Chris Bailey (CEO and Co-Founder of FileCatalyst) & Andy Wilson (Industry Principle- Media for Dropbox) about Filecatalyst & Dropbox’s recent partnership. The panel also discuss the important challenges the media industry has had to go through in this period to enable seamless collaboration.
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The media and entertainment industry is in an exciting period of transformation and innovation, and Signiant is thrilled to be in the midst of it. Nowhere was this energy more apparent than at this year’s IBC conference, where we had the opportunity to speak with a wide range of organizations, vendors, and thought leaders to better understand where M&E businesses are at, where they’re going, and what they need.
Now with IBC 2019 in the rearview mirror, we’ve been reflecting on everything we’ve learned, and Jon Finegold, Signiant’s CMO, has taken the time to share his experience from the conference, and how that might affect Signiant as we charge toward 2020.
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Business Transformation – Embracing SaaS
IABM Executive Summit, London – July 2019
What are the challenges, issues and potential benefits for both media companies and vendors as they transform to a software-as-a-service based mode? George Jarrett reported on IABM’s July 2019 Executive Summit for IBC365, reproduced here with the kind permission of IBC.
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How Blackwater Digital Services uses Media Shuttle to power transatlantic client workflows
A few years ago, when Nathan Ross decided to start his own post-production company, the most valuable thing he had was insight. After graduating film school in Australia, he’d spent ten years working for production and distribution companies in L.A., during one of the most disruptive decades the industry has seen.
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By Megan Cater, Senior Manager of Digital Content at Signiant As data-intensive industries like Media & Entertainment continue to adopt cloud solutions, the simplicity and scalability of well-designed, cloud-native SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) has proven to be a major driver. However, in order to provide the full benefits of SaaS, vendors must be fully committed to the services, not just the software. SaaS connects vendors and customers in a long-term relationship that begins with onboarding, thrives through superb customer support and DevOps, and grows with ongoing product improvements rooted in feedback from customers. Entering into a partnership with a SaaS vendor that has a high-level commitment to services can provide enormous advantages to customers. Since the software vendor is responsible for operation of the cloud environment, it removes the burden of procuring, managing and maintaining on-premises infrastructure, while automatically providing the latest product releases without impacting customizations. Well-executed services also improve the usability of products over time, because they allow vendors the opportunity to get invaluable feedback from customers on an ongoing basis. That feedback comes directly from customers as well as from visibility into product usage that is often missing in traditional on-premises software. A powerful network effect is created where...
