Media Industry Predictions 2023
The media industry, like many other sectors, is constantly changing, and changing fast! So, the DPP has published media industry predictions 2023. This is the seventh year it has done …
Media Industry Predictions 2023
The media industry, like many other sectors, is constantly changing, and changing fast! So, the DPP has published media industry predictions 2023. This is the seventh year it has done …
Serverless Architecture… what’s the point?
What is Serverless Architecture?
Serverless architecture, cloud services, cloud-native, big data, are all terms that have been thrown around over the last few years. With claims of faster speeds, better security and overall improvement in your business processes!
In simple terms, we will break down what being “serverless” means to us and, more importantly, what it means for you when you’re using serverless platforms.
How to comment and annotate in Overcast
1. To make a comment on or add an annotation to a video or image, click the comments tab on the left.
2. To add a comment type it into the box and it will appear on the right. You can do the same thing for annotating.
If you add an annotation, it will appear on top of the image or video.
3. For videos, if you add comments while watching the video, the comments and annotations will be timecoded.
4. You can also use the “Cycle markers” button to cycle through the comments and annotations on the video
If required, you can also download the comments in many different formats.
Overcast Featured in DPP Media Supply Festival 2021
Overcast was featured in the DPP Media Supply Festival Demo Zone over the 7th and 8th of September.
We presented our demo alongside the best media providers from around the world and you can find our Media Pipeline Management demo video below.
Zahra – a case study
Zahra is a full-service content agency with owned media in the Food and Parenting verticals. Their mission is to connect brands with audiences through the creation and distribution of purposeful content.
“”The review and approval process within Overcast has made it a lot clearer for everyone who is working on the project: clients, videographer, our team. It’s so helpful being able to compare older to newer versions side-by-side using timecodes.”
— Alan Breslin, Production Coordinator, Zahra Media Group.
Image Recognition: Artificial Intelligence Is The Secret Sauce
AI image recognition is one of the new-fangled terms being bandied around. So, what does it mean and what can it do for you?
In today’s media landscape, there’s a vast volume of unstructured content that organisations are trying to manage. Let’s face it, we’ve all been there: spending hours searching through content for an outstanding soundbite or a stunning shot that we know we filmed but, alas, it eludes us.
Max Recognition uses the latest AI and Machine Learning to identify people, objects, places, and events in videos and images. It’s like magic!
Use AI To Transcribe Audio To Text: It’s A Game Changer
Wondering how using AI to automatically transcribe audio to text could rock your world?
Remember when transcription jobs meant typing out every word in a video or audio clip by hand in order to add subtitles? Not our favourite memory of “the good old days”!!
It was a slow, laborious, mundane and uninteresting task. However, it had to be done.
Thank goodness AI transcription software has saved us from this nightmare!
Cloud Storage: How To Stop Paying Ridiculous Margins
The popularity of video consumption continues to explode and not just for marketing or brand building purposes. Video can also be used in-house for employee training and dissemination of information — this is even more valid in the current era of enforced remote working.
The possibilities that video offers your business are endless: connecting with your audience through live streaming, tutorials, product demos, promotional videos, vlogging and much more.
Video files are large — but how big is big?
€1.5m Funding for Overcast’s AI Video Platform To Make Videos More Searchable
We’re delighted at the media interest in our recent announcement that we, in collaboration with Kinsense, have been granted €1.5 million under the Irish Government’s Disruptive Technology Innovation Fund to develop VISP: Video Intelligent Search Platform. This platform will use artificial intelligence to categorise and understand content for the security and entertainment markets. The three-year collaboration is expected to create 46 jobs.
DAM! Enterprise Video Is So Popular — Part 3
As the use of video in business continues to increase, enterprises need to have a growth strategy in mind in addition to fulfilling their current needs. So, they need to look for a platform that provides extensive management capabilities to streamline their process, combined with the facility to scale up video production in the future. The Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Video 2019 identifies the key capabilities of a DAM identified in this blog post as essential.