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Most media industry trend reports can provide directional guidance on consumer behavior but miss practical applications for media technologists to solve short- to long-term challenges. In this webcast, we discuss how new video workflow solutions from AWS directly address the changes your business is going through. Highlights include: Fast and affordable media production and archiving […]

For many video providers, achieving and maintaining superior quality for their streaming content is a top priority. However, the path to sharper images and better playback can often lead to unacceptable increases in processing and distribution overhead. In this 20-minute breakout session from the recent AWS Insights Online Conference, Kevin Moore, AWS Elemental director of product management […]

This article originally appeared in FEED Magazine, Issue 07. For years, Arqiva has been the network underpinning a notable portion of UK broadcast delivery. But last month the company launched a new, cloud-based service – a suite of virtualized media management tools aiming to expand Arqiva’s already far-reaching broadcast services to include cloud-based playout, OTT […]

Technology has caught up to sports fans who want to connect 24/7 with their favorite teams. In September 2018 the NFL alone accounted for approximately 3% of all streaming plays and viewing hours in the US. Fans today want to be able to follow their favorites from anywhere, on any device. Cloud technologies can help […]

Gone are the days when watching sports on television meant turning on the one and only broadcaster which owned the rights to televise an event. Several sports-specific OTT offerings have launched in the last year with broadcasters realizing that sports are the last bastion of streaming video for which viewers are willing to pay a […]

Missed any of the media-related sessions from re:Invent? Below are the videos and slide decks (where available) for M&E-related breakouts. Click here to see the full list of M&E-related sessions across breakouts, chalktalks, and workshops. If you want to see all videos and slide decks across all re:Invent 2018, they are available here and here respectively. You […]

Many more vendors have achieved integration and interoperability with AWS Elemental Media Services, further extending the selection of available tools for building cloud-based video workflows. Following are some of the software solutions recently made available by members of the AWS Elemental Technology Partner Program to support live or on-demand video using cloud infrastructure: Content Protection […]

An Amazon CloudWatch dashboard is a customizable home page in the CloudWatch console that monitors multiple resources in a single view. It can consist of a number of widgets, with each widget providing operational information about different resources monitored by the dashboard. For media workflows, CloudWatch dashboards can make it easy to view and monitor […]

If you develop video applications, you probably need to create poster frames (a highlight image that is representative of a video) and thumbnail images (periodic frame grabs over the duration of the entire video) as a part of your workflow. Have you ever wondered how to create a poster frame for a specific frame in […]

Back in May, AWS launched the Media Analysis Solution. Our Machine Learning team has created a step-by-step guide for how to start using this Solution. Click here to read Start Building: Make Content Archives Searchable by On-camera Talent, Dialog, Activity, and More With This New Solution from AWS .  You can learn about media use cases […]