At NAB 2024, Telestream will introduce a new AI-powered suite of media processing tools designed to change how media pros ingest, enhance, and deliver content, optimizing every step for speed, quality and efficiency across the media production life cycle.

The industry’s shift to remote production presents significant challenges for media companies, particularly in accessing high-resolution, mezzanine content. Telestream’s GLIM as a Service, a new cloud-based solution, addresses this issue by offering instant playback of content in any format through a web browser.

This service streamlines remote content access, eliminating the need for extensive downloads or specialized playback hardware. By enabling quicker access and simplifying the production process, GLIM as a Service, according to Telestream, not only accelerates production workflows but also reduces operational costs by eliminating the reliance on physical hardware and streamlining content review and approval processes.

AI-Powered Tools
Telestream is introducing a suite of AI-powered media processing tools, marking a significant advancement in the production and distribution of media content. These solutions are designed to empower production teams, enabling them to produce and distribute high-quality content more efficiently and swiftly than ever before, aligning with the demand for fast turnaround times across diverse platforms.

• Automated Workflow Creation: By leveraging artificial intelligence, Telestream’s Vantage Workflow Designer automates the configuration of media processing workflows. Telestream says this drastically reduces manual interventions, streamlines operations and minimizes errors, significantly speeding up the production cycle.
• Intelligent Quality Control (QC): Telestream’s AI-driven QC tools automate the process of ensuring consistent content quality across large volumes of media. This automation supports the delivery of high-quality content at the speed demanded by multiple platforms, eliminating the scalability challenges of manual QC.
• Efficient Captioning and Subtitling: The integration of AI also extends to captioning and subtitling processes, making them faster and more efficient. This not only enhances content accessibility and global reach but also ensures that content can be quickly turned around to meet the immediate needs of a diverse and widespread audience.

Simplified Adoption and Integration
Understanding the industry’s hesitation toward complex technology adoption, Telestream says it has focused on making its advanced AI solutions accessible and easy to integrate. This approach lowers the barrier to adopting these technologies, enabling media entities to adapt and innovate quickly.

Quality Control
Telestream is offering updates to its Qualify QC:

• IMF Compliance: Enhanced with Netflix Photon support, ensuring Interoperable Master Format (IMF) packages meet critical industry standards.
• Harding FPA Test: Incorporates detection capabilities for potentially epileptic content, prioritizing viewer safety.
• Dolby E Presence and Dolby Vision Validation: Verifies the inclusion of Dolby E audio and the accuracy of Dolby Vision metadata, guaranteeing top-notch audiovisual experiences.
• Rude Word Detection: A new tool to screen and flag unsuitable language, ensuring content suitability for all audiences.

These enhancements to Qualify QC reflect Telestream’s commitment to advancing quality control processes, making it simpler for media professionals to deliver content that is not only compliant but is also of the highest quality and delivers the best viewer experience.

Live Capture in the Cloud
Telestream is introducing a new cloud-based Live Capture as a Service offering that is designed to simplify the live capture of content from any location in real time, allowing production teams to bypass the traditional hurdles of remote setup and maintenance. With this solution, media companies can overcome the limitations of traditional physical infrastructure, facilitating a faster transition from live capture to broadcast and optimizing production workflows. This new flexibility not only accelerates content delivery but also empowers companies to capture and monetize additional content.

Emerging Protocols
Telestream is introducing the Inspect Monitoring Platform, a monitoring solution crafted for SMPTE ST 2110, SRT and NDI protocols. The platform offers a comprehensive solution for continuous media stream integrity monitoring, in-depth issue analysis and strategic optimization of broadcasting and streaming operations. This approach enables production companies to detect, diagnose and optimize high-quality content delivery across all platforms and protocols.

Managing Media Storage via Diva 9
As the media industry transitions to cloud storage, organizations have to navigate integrating cloud solutions with existing infrastructures, all while safeguarding their assets and ensuring operational continuity. By adopting a hybrid storage strategy, these organizations can strike a balance between ensuring seamless access to content, optimizing storage costs and implementing robust disaster recovery protocols. The challenge lies in executing this balance effectively.

Diva 9 addresses these critical pain points associated with moving content to the cloud by offering a seamless, hybrid content management solution. It facilitates the smart transition of media assets between on-premises and cloud environments, leveraging intelligent media storage policies, advanced Elasticsearch search functions and integrations with MAM, automation and other cloud systems. This approach ensures the secure and scalable storage of content and improves accessibility and cost-effectiveness.