Overcast Industry Insights: The Evolution of Media Creation

MovieLabs says there is a time-critical need for executives to become more aware of supporting the future of media creation and to invest in it.

In this article, we delve into trends and strategic imperatives outlined in MovieLabs’ Urgent Memo to the C-Suite and reveals how the Cloud MAM solution that Overcast designed for Britain’s Royal Opera House fulfills those strategic imperatives.

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Overcast Industry Insights: The Evolution of Media Creation

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MovieLabs says there is a time-critical need for executives to become more aware of supporting the future of media creation and to invest in it.

In this article, we delve into trends and strategic imperatives outlined in MovieLabs’ Urgent Memo to the C-Suite and reveals how the Cloud MAM solution that Overcast designed for Britain’s Royal Opera House fulfills those strategic imperatives.

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Serverless Architecture… what’s the point?

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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.

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How to comment and annotate in Overcast

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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.

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Image Recognition: Artificial Intelligence Is The Secret Sauce

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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!

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Use AI To Transcribe Audio To Text: It’s A Game Changer

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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!

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Cloud Storage: How To Stop Paying Ridiculous Margins

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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?

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€1.5m Funding for Overcast’s AI Video Platform To Make Videos More Searchable

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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.

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