CENTURY CITY, Calif.—Ateliere Creative Technologies is making it easier for its users to repackage and accelerate content delivery with the release of a new clipping function that allows users to modify titles and their attributes on the fly.

Available now for the Ateliere Connect cloud-native media supply chain platform, the new function uses time-based metadata for fast clipping turnaround, thereby creating operational efficiencies, the company said.

“In today’s hyper-competitive streaming market, the ability to deliver the right content, at the right time, to the right viewers and platforms is key,” said company chief technology officer Ryan Kido. “Ateliere continues to bring innovation to its platforms that give[s] our customers the edge to build engaged subscriber bases. With this new, easy-to-use clipping functionality, Ateliere customers get additional tools in their arsenal to accelerate sales and compliance workflows even further.” 

The first release of Ateliere Connect’s clipping function allows users to set time ranges and save them as timecoded metadata markers to make marking and extracting content as a new file fast and easy, it said.

Segmenting titles efficiently empowers sales teams to get content to their customers faster, accelerating bulk packaging and delivery options. Future releases will include clip stitching and metadata-based editing, the company said.

With the company’s proprietary FrameDNA AI/ML and Deep Analysis tools, it is possible to identify specific video elements such as opening and credits and slates, studio logos, black frames and color bars, automating bulk removal and saving hours of otherwise manual work, it said.

More information is available on the company’s website.

CUPERTINO, Calif.—TVU Networks has announced that its TVU MediaMind and TVU Search platform have been adopted by ANI, South Asia's top multimedia news agency. 

The TVU solutions are being used to enhance ANI's video processes and to ensure swift and engaging news delivery. For ANI, the deployment has simplified content discovery by analyzing video metadata, speech, text, and faces, freeing news teams to focus on storytelling, the companies said. 

"TVU gave us a fast and efficient solution to an immediate need from our editorial team,” explained Ishan Prakash, editor, ANI Live Services. “The speed, reliability and quality of their ingest and clipping solution is unmatched in the market and allows us to provide a world-class multimedia product to ANI subscribers across South Asia. ANI is constantly evolving its news agency offering, and companies like TVU are an important element to our technological upgrades. TVU technology is always in line with the changing ways in which news is consumed".

The integration allows ANI to harness the platform's live ingest feeds, clipping features, and the TVU Search portal, providing real-time access to the latest news. Clipped video content is automatically uploaded to ANI's AWS S3 Bucket, offering customers quick and accessible news updates on their new multimedia web portal.

In addition, TVU's all-in-one platform has improved ANI's operational efficiency, replacing complex manual processes with a centralized solution for managing video content, the companies said. ANI is now poised to further evolve their ingest capabilities into this automation platform, enhancing their multimedia offerings and audience engagement.

TVU also noted that the deployment is part of a growing trend towards cloud solutions for content creation. Overall, the video hours ingested by TVU MediaMind and TVU Search in 2022 increased by 630% compared to 2021.

“Ani's adoption of TVU MediaMind and TVU Search serves as a validation of our direction in developing cloud-native and hybrid technology for remote production,” said Paul Shen, CEO of TVU Networks. “We're thrilled to partner with ANI - a media powerhouse that shares our visionary outlook for the future of news production."

SAN FRANCISCO—Twitter is touting a new tool as part of its Media Studio that is designed to ease the video clipping of live streams for sharing on the social media site. LiveCut is a cloud-based web application that enables editing and distribution of video highlights of a livestream from a Twitter account.

This new service will serve as a replacement for SnappyTV, which has been Twitter’s real-time video-clipping service for the last five years. LiveCut integrates SnappyTV’s core functionality while utilizing its own features to provide fast and free video-clipping services to social media producers. In addition, publishers can now launch private broadcasts, share broadcasts across teams and create and monetize video clips.

LiveCut is a part of Twitter’s Media Studio.

“We’re confident that we’ve created a product that seamlessly serves video producers’ live-clipping needs on Twitter and, looking forward, will continue investing in it to develop new features that expand its functionality,” Twitter’s announcement read.

As a result of the introduction of LiveCut, SnappyTV is being sunsetted, with the service expected to officially go away by Dec. 31, 2019. Looking to aid in the move to LiveCut, Twitter has made available resources for SnappTV users, best practices and how-to guides on LiveCut.