Workflows

Webinar: Integrating AI in media content workflows

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Date: Thursday 19th July, 16:00 BST
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are starting to transform the way content is created, managed and delivered.

New cognitive-computing tools are enhancing creativity, eliminating mundane repetitive work and unlocking new value from content.

AI is suddenly everywhere: the ready availability of powerful AI services from all the major cloud providers means hundreds of media technology products are plugging into AI and offering new ways of working.

This webinar cuts through the hype to reveal how media companies are actually using AI tools throughout the content supply chain – from aiding craft and creative work in post-production, automating metadata extraction and compliance, to making smart content recommendations to audiences. The speakers will explain how best to use AI, what we can and can’t do, and how it will continue to change workflows into the future.

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Speakers: 

Michael Gamböck Michael Gamböck, Senior Strategy Relations EMEA, Creative Cloud Video, Adobe
Josh Wiggins Josh Wiggins, Chief Commercial Officer, GrayMeta
Neil Taylor Neil Taylor, Lead Data Strategist for Commercial Innovations, Channel 4
Jean-Pierre Evain Jean-Pierre Evain, Principal Project Manager, EBU Artificial Intelligence Committee
Robert Ambrose Moderator: Robert Ambrose, Managing Consultant, High Green Media

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Video: Exploring Image Corruption in the Workflow, and how to Stop this from Happening

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Corrupted data is a fact of life. Yet LTO tape Systems, SAN, NAS, Object Store, RAM, and WAN Optimizers all have configurations available to protect the fidelity of image contents in the workflow. Most serious is an archive scenario where content may sit untouched for a long duration and any corruption remains undetected for extended periods of time.

This talk from SMPTE Technical Conference 2017 by Keith Hogan covers the problems with hashes, looks at where errors can get introduced and ways to mitigate problems.

Depending on the path a video frame takes through the workflow, it will be treated to a varying set of protection technologies, like RAID, erasure coding, ECC Memory, and parity checking. Even on the network, errors can be introduced but checksums don’t always work.

To overcome the uncertainty of associated with how these methods ensure fidelity, the industry employs failure detection at each stage of the workflow (generally MD5 checksums). Keith discusses the protection mechanisms provided or employed by each workflow element and how frame corruption can occur, even when all of the protection technologies are working as designed. Finishing with a method for providing protection to images at the frame level using Forward Error Correction, such that there is uniformity of protection for images applied throughout the workflow, Keith shows that media errors may be recovered in most cases without having to access a backup copy.

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Meeting: IMF for Broadcast & Online

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Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 – 15:00 to 16:45
Location: Dock10, The Studios, MediaCity:UK, Salford, M50 2HQ

Hosted at Dock10, join the DPP experts to find out about the new IMF Specification for Broadcast and Online.
Starting with refreshments and networking, the session will cover the business case behind the need to develop a new Inter-operable Mastering Format, how it fits in to existing programme delivery cycles, what SMPTE specifications are with a view of how IMF might evolve for advertising deliveries globally

Speakers

Andy Quested

Andy Quested started working as a BBC Technical Assistant in 1978 becoming a video tape editor in 1985. Andy worked on many comedy, children’s and documentary series, editing all episodes of “Keeping Up Appearances”! He also worked on the introducing of non-linear editing, stereo and widescreen production. In 1998 Andy moved to a new BBC technology department where he led the production technology for the BBC’s first HD programmes including the iconic series “Planet Earth I”. He is the technical lead for the DPP’s AS-11 format, co-chairs the EBU Video Systems Strategic Group and is an active member of SMPTE, especially the UK Region and became a Fellow in 2014. At the ITU, Andy chaired the Rapporteurs Group that developed the HDR Recommendation until 2015 when he became chair of Working Party 6C which has responsibility for the international standards for production and international exchange.

Andy Wilson,

With over 17 years of working on red button interactive television services, broadcast innovation, product management and digital rights for the BBC, Andy now leads the growth and delivery of the DPP.  Andy’s previous BBC work included the migration of Engineering Teams to support new technologies and studios in MediaCity UK, New Broadcasting House, UHD broadcasts, supporting the 2012 London Olympics and running the industry skills programme for File Delivery.
Andy joined the DPP from his role as Partnership Lead for BBC Make it Digital, a year-long campaign to develop the coding and digital skills of audiences across the UK. He was also Head of Delivery for BBC micro:bit, ensuring 1 million children across the UK received a new computing device to help grow their engineering and digital skills. Andy led collaboration between 54 partners, to deliver the BBC’s most ambitious education initiative in 30 years.
Andy has experience in developing big data services, powered by machine learning, through his work in developing audience measurement tools for television and online services.

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Video: Turner’s Cloud Archive for CNN’s Video Library and Global Multiplatform Versioning

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From AWS re:Invent 2017, Michael Koetter from Turner and Bhavik Vyas from AWS explain that Turner is creating a copy of CNN’s 37-year news video library in AWS to take advantage of the cost and architectural benefits of cloud storage.
This project has unique requirements around retrieval times, and Turner partnered with AWS to drive specific capabilities such as those Amazon Glacier expedited and bulk retrieval options. These cloud-based archives can enable Turner to use other cloud-based value-add services, such as AI/ML/search, and media supply chains efficiently. Turner’s global content exploitation strategies call for extensive versioning of content assets required for distribution to different platforms, products, and regions.
Today, this involves complex workflows to derive multiple downstream versions. Adopting the SMPTE Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF) and cloud-based object storage, Turner will dramatically simplify these workflows by enabling cloud-based automation and elastic scalability. Hear Turner’s strategy, implementation around these media workloads, and lessons learned.

Speakers:
Michael Koetter, SVP, Digital Media Systems, Turner
Bhavik Byas, Global Ecosystem Leader, M&E, AWS

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