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No Limits To Your Live Streaming Ambitions

Posted on February 11, 2021August 21, 2024 by Fiona Ashe

Overcast MAX #1: Max Live Streaming

“The video streaming market is on track to become a $124.6 billion industry by 2025.”
— Grand View Research

There’s no doubting the burgeoning popularity of live streaming. The wide-ranging benefits to business who use it include:

access to a wider audience, unlimited by geographical or size constraints;
direct communication with customers and potential clients;
lower costs than running a real world event or traditional broadcast platforms;
viewers can access your live stream on any device, on the go;
the opportunity to grow your community;
involve viewers through live interaction;
the opportunity to cross-promote your social channels;
repurpose the content by sharing clips from the live stream afterwards;
take advantage of the SEO benefits of YouTube;
use analytics to evaluate the success of your live event.

Overcast MAX

In our previous blog post, we gave an overview of MAX, our suite of next-generation cloud applications for production, collaboration, storage and distribution that makes remote video collaboration effortless.

Max Live Streaming

You don’t need to be in the media and entertainment industries to grow your business through live streaming. It can be used for in-house trainings, public events, town hall meetings, etc. — in fact, anything you can think of. But you need a simple, high quality, secure way to do it: say hello to Max Live Streaming.

If you’ve tried live streaming before, you may have experienced low quality streaming due to limitations in the available bandwidth — it’s a common problem with free services. No such worries with Max Live Streaming!

It’s cloud-based adaptive HD streaming, so you are guaranteed a high quality result. You’ll never run out of bandwidth, which means you can be confident about being able to deliver the content to your audience the way you want to.

If you find that streaming is benefiting your business, you can easily scale up your live stream strategy — with no limits!

It’s quick and easy to set up; and once that’s done you can bring non-tech employees into the workflow and let them manage the content. If you’d like to create a channel, it’s as simple as dragging and dropping content.

We provide you with a network that has enterprise grade security. But while secure live streaming used to be prohibitively expensive, now your event can make money and you can re-invest it in your business.

Max Live Streaming is so easy that you can get up and running in seconds. What are you waiting for?

What else have we got?

In our next post, we’ll explore where to store and archive all those large video files and how to manage them effectively with Max Storage.

Get in touch

If you have any questions about live streaming, please do get in touch. Our email address is info@overcasthq.com or you can click here to get in touch. Ask for Philippe. He’s always good for a chat!

Boost Your Video Production To The MAX

Posted on February 8, 2021August 21, 2024 by Fiona Ashe

It’s been a long two years of working from home for most of us and we’ve had to grapple with the unexpected challenges of remote working.

For teams collaborating on videos, most have found that sharing/downloading video content is problematic, reviews and approvals are slow, workflows are clunky (at best), and speed to market isn’t speed at all (quite the opposite!)

For compact teams and small businesses, Overcast provides off-the-shelf SaaS solutions, but larger organisations will need a solution that includes a more complex tech stack, seamless collaborative workflows and best-in-class security

Enter Overcast MAX, a suite of next-generation cloud applications for production, collaboration, storage and distribution that makes remote video collaboration effortless.

So, how does MAX work? Well, it’s a managed SaaS solution that improves your workflow and tech stacks through nine tailored products.

Max Live Streaming

“The global video streaming market size was valued at USD 50.11 billion in 2020. It is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.0% from 2021 to 2028.”
— Grand View Research

Max Live Streaming is a simple, secure, low-cost way to live stream broadcast events, town hall meetings, training and everything else you can think of. You can get up and running in seconds and scale up to your heart’s content. Even non-techies can do it!

Max Storage

Storage is one of the top concerns in relation to video production since video files are large and complex. Not a problem. You’re no doubt familiar with parties where you BYOB (bring your own bottle) — this occasion allows you to BYO storage. Best party trick ever!

With Max Storage, you can manage your workflows in the cloud or with a hybrid solution that conforms to your workflows. Not to mention the awesome benefit of future-proofing your content.

Max Transcribe

Transcribing is a slow, laborious and mundane task. But it’s a piece of cake with Max Transcribe, which uses the latest AI and Machine Learning to transcribe the audio content in a video. This makes your content immediately searchable and findable using time-stamps, plus you get your video content to market quicker.

Max Recognition

Remember a time when you had to spend ages scrolling through tapes searching for an amazing shot you know you filmed but cannot locate? Fortunately, those days are gone. Max Recognition uses the latest AI and Machine Learning to identify people, places, objects and events in videos and images. Also useful for managing archive footage.

Max User Interface (UI)

Every sector has its own jargon. For example, the media industry would refer to “assets” and “projects”, while the security industry talks about “evidence” and “cases”. Max UI is service-designed to allow you and your business to use the terms that are relevant to your industry.

Max Orchestrate

Technology is changing so fast these days that sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Monolithic architecture and legacy technology will stymie your workflows. So, if you need to simplify complex tech stacks and add/subtract new services, Max Orchestrate is the magic pill.

Max Identity

Naturally, when choosing a technology solution, security and identity protection are key concerns. No need to worry: Max Identity includes Single Sign On (SSO) and a number of Identity Security Techniques, including two-factor authentication, multi-factor authentication and auto logoff.

Max Editor

Max Editor is designed to ensure your audio-visual and graphics editors can use their preferred platforms — like Adobe or Avid — and still benefit from optimised cloud workflows. It’s secure. It’s speeds up collaboration. And you don’t have to download any content. Yay!

Max Simulator

Whether you are planning to invest in a cloud-based asset management platform for the first time or you need to expand your existing one, you’ll need to assess the cost and ROI, right?

Throw your calculator in the bin! Max Simulator uses 20+ inputs to run an accurate simulation to help you fully understand your hosting and storage costs.

Overall benefits

With Overcast MAX Modules you can take back control of your IT infrastructure. In the following series of blog posts, we’ll delve deeper into each product to illustrate how you can reduce your costs, accelerate operational efficiencies, and aid competitiveness. First up: Max Live Streaming.

In the meantime, if you’d like to chat about your specific video asset management needs, we’d be delighted to help you to identify the ideal solution for your business. Email us on info@overcasthq.com or click here to get in touch.

DAM! Enterprise Video Is So Popular — Part 3

Posted on December 10, 2019August 22, 2024 by Fiona Ashe

What Do You Need In A DAM?

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 following key capabilities of a DAM as essential:

1. Capture/Recording and Publishing

– Ability to capture, tag, and edit a video recording
– Ability to publish

2. Video Content Management/Portal

– Ability to store video content and display it in different modes for users
– Ability to deliver video content to multiple devices (includes transcoding)
– Ability to provide delivery of video content to global locations (via content delivery network capabilities)
– Ability to search for content
– APIs for integration

3. Live Video: Streaming and Integration

– Ability to deliver a live broadcast to a large number of users
– Ability to record the live broadcast for later use
– The ability to connect with existing video conferencing systems for capture or for broadcast federation

4. Content Analytics

– The ability to analyze what is happening in a video, either live or after the fact
– The ability to recognize people and images in a video or image
– The ability to recognize sentiment of people talking in a video

Why Use Overcast?

Overcast is specially designed for enterprises. Our streamlined process means that your team will be able to collaborate effortlessly on video. You’ll be amazed at how fast reviews and approvals are, no matter where in the world your team is. AI-powered search enables you to find whatever clips you’re looking for in the cloud-based repository. You’ll save lots of time with speedy file transfer and no-one will be tearing their hair out trying to format videos for various channels: our platform will do that for you at the click of a button. And since it’s encrypted, you can feel secure in the knowledge that your files are protected. So why not contact us today for a free trial to make your life easier and save you time and money?