Vidispine Blog

Worth watching from an IABM panel on cloud and the media industry. Hear Vidispine’s CEO discuss the impact and opportunities of the cloud together with other industry insiders.

The first ever vortech.by event exceeded all expectations, with close to 100 visitors from eight countries coming together in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss the latest technology topics of the moment. This new technology-focused conference, aimed at developers, solution architects and senior technologists in the media and video platform industry, provided major insights into a side of the Media and Entertainment industry that other events do not cover in such depth.

Vidispine partner Nablet is a German company with a strong track record in the broadcast and media industry. Nablet codecs are utilized by many leading transcoders, including our own VidiCoder. Together, we’ve now made the latest innovations from Nablet, Shrynk and Heightscreen, accessible to all by making them available in the VidiNet media services Platform-as-a-Service.

It should be easy to move between clouds. Avoid cloud lock-ins. A solution should be able to handle media that is both in the cloud, in other clouds and on-premise. Demand cost transparency, Make sure there is an API” was the message from Vidispine’s CTO, at the IABM Future Trends Theatre during IBC 2018.

There are many reasons to transcribe your spoken content in your media. The first reason that comes to mind is, of course, subtitling. Not only in the natively spoken language but also in translated versions. According to multiple research, subtitled videos improve reach, CTA, reactions, and share rates significantly. The second reason is, of course, to help you find the content you are looking for – do you remember the soundbite that the CEO made in that speech – but where is it?

This is part 3 in our blog post series about the Media Supply Chain. In this blog post, we are looking at administrative metadata and will show an important example - specifically IP and rights management.

One decade old or young, Vidispine is celebrating its tenth anniversary. We want to thank all our loyal customers, partners and friends for your support over the years. Below you will find a short interview with the founders Erik and Isak where they answer some questions on the occasion of the anniversary.

In IABM’s newly released report we can read about the effect of the transformation happening in the media technology industry and how we can convert this into opportunities for our businesses. Get a glimpse of the results from the report, and read our thoughts on it here.

Media content has always had quite a limited amount of information associated with it. Quite often this is the file name, short description and some technical metadata that the ingest process may have extracted from the source file. Wouldn’t it be great if we use technology here to harvest this metadata data info automatically instead?

The answer is machine learning video analysis – a technology that trains computer software to detect objects, faces, and environments in the media content.

A hybrid cloud storage solution is the quickest route when you need the flexibility and scalability of a cloud solution, but have on-premise assets that are impractical to move to the cloud. The Vidispine Server Agent (VSA) is Vidispine’s hybrid cloud storage solution allowing you to keep your original assets safely on-premise while still running a Vidispine solution in the Vidinet cloud infrastructure.

This is part 4 in our blog post series about the Media Supply Chain. In this blog post, we are looking at remote working within media production and the media supply chain and how we can enable that in a sustainable way.