Retrieving important value from content libraries is a huge problem that Media & Entertainment (M&E) companies are facing today. Through the help of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), these companies can share their content and extract value in the form of workflow efficiencies, better content creation and even additional revenue. ML is allowing companies to access metadata associated with every frame of video, making their content searchable and meaningful. Whether applying ML in real life or less time sensitive workflow ML makes vast amounts of video searchable in an instant.

In this whitepaper, you will read about:

• What machine learning is capable of and why it matters to extracting valuable data 
• Recognizing the power of ML and AI on these company's databases
• How to get started and what to expect with these tools
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The White Paper is available for download here. 

Television news has a long history of evolving—from the days when stories in the field were shot on film through electronic newsgathering to wireless network contribution of live and finished packages. The same could be said of newsroom technologies. Each of these news workflow transitions was gradual, giving journalists and their news organizations time to adapt and adopt that in many cases was years long.

However, in March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, leaving newsrooms, like the rest of society, in a scramble to maintain a degree of normalcy while the pandemic surged and alternatives to long-established routines were deployed.

Read this whitepaper for insights on how broadcasters adapted their news workflows and how news personnel are changing their attitudes towards technologies like the cloud and virtual news production tools.

Unfortunately, relying on the home-based access model opens broadcasters to:

• hostile players compromising broadcaster data centers and stealing their content
• system slowdowns due to excessive access demands by home users
• traffic jams due to shipping large data files over commercial IP networks
• significantly reduced productivity on an ongoing basis

Teradici’s PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol solves all of these problems and more. This is why PCoIP is being used by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX house for the Star Wars movies. 

Find out more through the free Teradici white paper, “How PCoIP Technology Can Save Broadcasters Time & Money While Boosting Cybersecurity.” 

From content creation to distribution and everything in between, content creators of all sizes require media and entertainment workflows that put top notch media in the hands of consumers.

AWS solutions enable customers to build faster, smarter, and more agile workflows across the entire value chain—reducing constraints, increasing efficiency, and creating opportunities to delight viewers and drive new revenue— across all types of media, including audio, video, text, and images.

Download the eBook, Innovate Quickly, to discover how you can:

• Eliminate traditional capacity and geographic constraints
• Realize the benefits and efficiency of production workflows in VFX, editing, rendering, and asset storage
• Scale storage up and down to better integrate analytics for viewer content personalization
• Enhance broadcast, OTT and D2C and digital publishing distribution
• Experience the value of AWS services – you can watch real-world video case studies from companies such as National Geographic, Untold Studios, Mikros Animation, Universal Music Group, and more

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HDD technology has long dominated because of good performance, relatively high capacity, and low cost per TB with flash. As price differences between HDDs and SSDs decreased, the desire for higher capacity flash SSDs has become worth the discrepancy – especially as the TCO can sometimes be lower because of density and power.

That’s where NVMe, Non-Volatile Memory express, comes into play. Designed to unlock the performance of all types of non-volatile memory, from flash SSDs to the latest persistent memory technology, this primer will describe how NVMe enables greater performance in both standalone and networked implementations, and some of the key use cases that can benefit from this speed.

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Content originators and owners increasingly find their content distribution workflows being siloed as they prepare content for a diverse array of delivery platforms. The eBook “Managing Content Distribution in a Time of Flux” confronts the problem of prepping content for different distributors and looks at a strategy that relieves the headaches for in-house staff.

Discover:

-Why different distributors –whether they’re direct-to-consumer cable syndication, digital or international—have different content specifications

-How content prep silos are a workable solution that impedes content prep efficiency 

-Content prep and supply chain management that allows content owners and originators to reclaim workflow efficiency

-How context-aware workflows are a great way to relieve the burden of versioning content

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Media & Entertainment companies around the world face the same problem: how best to archive an ever-increasing number of video assets in a way that’s affordable, accessible and secure. This new white paper examines the benefits and limitations of three popular archiving strategies and how they are being deployed to meet the archiving and disaster recovery needs of media companies.

The white paper explores:

• Key considerations in choosing an archive strategy
• Costs associated with using a public cloud service and on-premise LTO tape to archive media
• How a hybrid of cloud and on-premise LTO-based archiving offers M&E enterprises greater flexibility
• How to leverage massive GPU and CPU availability while archiving on-premise to make assets easily accessible
• How station groups with as few as six TV stations can work together to make archiving affordable

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Technology-related content delivery challenges are taking a back seat to business issues as the online video segment of the industry matures. New research conducted by Broadcasting & Cable and TV Technology magazines in partnership with Comcast technology Solutions, confirms this shift, and many others as content and video providers (CAVPs) shared their strategies for optimizing the business and technical performance of their video distribution services.

This report lays out these details including:

• Controlling costs and maximizing customer lifetime value are important, but not the top business challenge
• 3 key features CAVPs identified as differentiators to stay ahead of their competition
• Why half of the responders would put most of their existing service in the cloud
• How clip sharing can be a critical component to building subscriber numbers

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Live television is proving to be a great way for OTT services to differentiate themselves from competitors. But live production is expensive, or least it has been. Now a new generation of IP-based technology enabling signal transport via an unmanaged network is changing the game for live remote sports, music and entertainment production.

This white paper explores this new production methodology and how it is making it more affordable to offer live programming. Download to learn:

• How broadcasters like Fox Sports are using live capture to enable at-home production
• How at-home production is changing the cost equation of live remotes
• Why encoding once and packaging IP for multiple devices is the smart thing to do
• Importance of monitoring live capture and live streaming quality

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The popularity of OTT content among viewers is skyrocketing worldwide, but proper monitoring is key to giving viewers the OTT experience they expect. Without it, service providers will find themselves tangled at every stage of delivery. Not good for business.

A new white paper explores monitoring in the era of adaptive bit rate streaming. Here’s how this can help you:

• Understand the points of complexity within the multifaceted end-to-end OTT delivery chain
• Pinpoint critical divides where probes are most successful to monitor quality
• Why building a reputation for reliability and quality is critical to business success

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BOTHELL, WASH.—The Alliance for IP Media Solutions has a new whitepaper available that aims to provide guidelines on the transition to IP. “AIMS Guidelines to Preparing Broadcast Facilities for IP-Based Live TV Production” presents methods broadcasters can enact to go from SDI to IP and on what products incorporating AIMS-endorsed protocols can be mixed and matched to fit specific requirements.

The white paper attempts to address elements broadcasters must take into account when designing an IP-based production infrastructure as well as other facility issues. The guide stresses that the basic workflows of live TV production remain unchanged.

“Careful consideration of points made in the document should help designers choose approaches that will serve any given facility’s immediate needs while smoothing the way for ongoing migration from SDI- to IP-based production,” wrote AIMS in its official press release.

The white paper is available for download at www.aimsalliance.org.