AWS Media Blog
Category: Content Production
[Updated 11/23] AWS for M&E Demo Showcase
With the announcement that the in-person IBC 2021 event is canceled, AWS will hold an AWS for M&E Demo Showcase December 6 – 10, 2021. The showcase features demonstrations to help companies reinvent how they create content, optimize media supply chains, and compete for audience attention across streaming, broadcast, and direct-to-consumer platforms. AWS for M&E […]
Read MoreSimplify configuration and increase video quality with new automatic encoder modes from AWS
If your business is encoding and delivering video, your primary goal is to make sure the video you distribute looks great for many types of source content. To achieve high video quality, video encoders need to use the best settings with inputs that have different content complexities, genres, and bandwidth constraints. Configuring settings can be […]
Read MoreStreaming sessions API for Amazon Nimble Studio
Introduction Amazon Nimble Studio empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud, from storyboard sketch to final deliverable. Studios can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists globally and create content faster using access to virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global infrastructure. […]
Read MoreEnterprise scale, security, and cost savings for creative workstations on AWS
In our second installment of Edit in the Cloud series, we covered getting started with virtual workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)—a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud—to meet the needs of creative workloads (for example, Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve) for media and entertainment (M&E). In this […]
Read MorePublic Preview: Nimble Studio introduces faster startup times with volume persistence
Today, Amazon Nimble Studio announces preview availability of faster workstation startup times and simplified workstation management for administrators with persistent volumes. While customers enjoy Nimble Studio for its fast deployment, many have asked for faster login times and the ability to save changes made to the root volume. As of today, this is now possible. […]
Read More[Updated 11/17] Your guide to media and entertainment at re:Invent 2021
The entire AWS Media & Entertainment (M&E) team welcomes you to celebrate 10 years of AWS re:Invent this year. We’re back in Las Vegas (and virtually) with an exciting program planned with five keynotes, more than 20 leadership sessions, and over 1,200 breakout and interactive sessions from November 29 through December 3, 2021. Plus, stop […]
Read MoreStreaming sessions view in Amazon Nimble Studio
Introduction Amazon Nimble Studio empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud. Studios can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists globally and create content faster using access to virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across Amazon Web Services (AWS) global infrastructure. Using the streaming sessions view included […]
Read MoreSkidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) goes all-in on the cloud in pioneering move for dynamic scalability
What do Hollywood blockbusters and one of the world’s most prestigious global architecture, interior design, urban planning, and engineering firms share in common? Turns out, quite a bit, and not just because it designed the Walt Disney Company’s Manhattan headquarters. From One World Trade Center in New York to Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the portfolio of […]
Read MoreAWS Artist Series: Optimizing the environment with foliage
Find the other posts in the AWS Artist series below: AWS Artist Series: Compositing Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles AWS Artist Series: Animating Noa AWS Artist Series: Rigging the bridge for “Spanner” AWS Artist Series: Laying out the opening shots of Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating an ocean of clouds Project Spanner […]
Read MoreAWS Artist Series: Creating an ocean of clouds
This is the 6th post in our AWS Artist series, find the other five below: AWS Artist Series: Compositing Spanner AWS Artist Series: Creating characters with dynamic wrinkles AWS Artist Series: Animating Noa AWS Artist Series: Rigging the bridge for “Spanner” AWS Artist Series: Laying out the opening shots of Spanner Spanner Noa’s silhouette hanging from […]
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