Why caption? Why subtitle? Because a large chunk of your audience either needs or prefers to watch video reading text without sound. Subtitles and captions are an essential part of business for any media organization who wants to reach the widest possible audience, for a multitude of reasons: legal requirements, international distribution, accessibility…. Captions provide…
Now part of Dalet, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform and complementary offerings, are constantly being refreshed with new features and a fully revamped user interface. We continuously strive to bring our clients the best experience, and with that in mind, we have fully refreshed the Ooyala Flex Media Platform Knowledge Base, aligned to our…
We have seen an abundance of live streams available to watch Wimbledon for several years. Take Virgin Media for instance – the broadcast channel surprised everyone in 2019 by announcing that it would be offering its customers access to all of the big matches on Centre Court in 4K with HDR. This was a strategic…
The massive amount of content available to journalists on social media is both a gift and a curse. The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ scenario on social media platforms provides journalists a wealth of real-time commentary on what is – to the digital majority – top breaking news and hot topic trends. News pros can leverage…
Cold desert mornings & IMF conversations! The sound of an alarm clock breaking through the fog of last night’s networking in the bar. It’s still dark outside, but if I don’t ride my bicycle then all those calories will turn me into a heavyweight of the industry. Two hours later, the warm shower has removed…
Government organizations and institutions are facing steep challenges to efficiently manage the massive amounts of multimedia content and associated metadata needed to fulfill their mission to actively reach, inform and better engage with citizens. To overcome these challenges, they require proven solutions that meet their demanding requirements in terms of efficiency, agility, security, cost, and…
Where does Dalet OneCut sit in the Dalet ecosystem and in the news production workflow? One of our key focuses at Dalet is to offer true unified news operations for news organizations. As part of this mission, we have developed a powerful, multimedia editing tool for journalists and storytellers: Dalet OneCut. How is Dalet OneCut…
As the way we consume content changes dramatically, broadcasters and media organizations need to constantly adapt their programming and processes with an ever-shorter time to market to follow the frenzied proliferation of new formats and versions, serving multiple distribution outlets – from theatrical releases, broadcast, social media to VOD and OTT. In a recent report…
An extension of the Dalet Galaxy five MAM, NRCS and Workflow Orchestration platform, Dalet OnePlay is a new-generation studio automation solution designed to modernize live productions, increase audience engagement and open up new revenue opportunities while optimizing operational costs and reliability. Dalet OnePlay was designed to be the perfect complement for show production, making it…
In the day-to-day operations of your media facility there exist many stress and pressure points making life interesting to put it mildly: Managing the visible challenges is demanding enough but when something materialises out of thin air and knocks a large part of yourworkflow off-line it can almost drive you to distraction. And, of course, the…
In modern newsrooms speed and accuracy are everything. The difference between breaking a news story or being an “also ran” can come down to the efficiency of your workflow in the newsroom. The ability to capture, store and find information is central – the quality of your journalists’ output relies heavily on their ability to…
This Q&A article is a repost from The Broadcast Bridge website. Kevin Savina, Product Strategy Director for Dalet, discusses with The Broadcast Bridge important 2017 trends in media asset management – multi-platform distribution, collaboration, workflow orchestration and business intelligence reporting – that broadcasters, facilities and content producers should keep at the forefront of their decision-making….
Some say the annual HPA Tech Retreat in Palm Desert, CA shapes the agenda for the rest of the year in the media industry, and as it relates to program distribution, 2018 is no exception. We’ll likely look back at 2018 as the year that IMF (the Interoperable Mastering Format) went from an emerging capability…
Staff input and adoption can make or break your next big project. Five key change management takeaways to consider for your next endeavor. Everybody Loves Change…Right? Technology moves at a breakneck pace, and some assume that the constant change around us means we are comfortable when changing tools and processes within our own workspace. This…
Did you know that most of the world does not distinguishbetween the terms “captions” and “subtitles”? Except that is, in the United States and Canada, where these terms do carry different meanings: Subtitles In North America, “subtitles” are designed to help viewers who can hear but cannot understand the language or accent, or the speech is not…
A long time ago in a time in a laboratory far, far away, a small team unpacked a shiny new server and ran their media software. Discovering that they could get standard definition video to decode and encode at almost real time, the transcode market was born. Thanks to Moore’s law and a little performance…
If you look into the meaning of NRCS, what do you get? Newsroom computer system. But let’s take it a bit further, and really break it down. Room. This word implies containment – one single location from which the news is collected, produced and distributed. Cut to this century, and that’s just not the reality…
The “blog from the show floor” has become something of a tradition now, but as this was my last IBC with Dalet, I’ve had more time off the booth than usual to get a real sense of what the focus of the show has been. Collaboration – that’s certainly been a theme everywhere I’ve been,…
Today’s tech-savvy generation looks for its news on social media networks It is no secret that social media networks are a growing source of news around the globe. In fact, the American Press Institute reports that 88% of millennials get their news from Facebook (read the full report here). While TV is still a…
The dilemma Over the years, one of the problems I hear a lot from broadcasters, especially for news and sports production workflows, is: “I have operations in different locations. I’d love to have them work as one unit and be able to collaborate closely with one another, but at the same time, in case a…
Why caption? Why subtitle? Because a large chunk of your audience either needs or prefers to watch video reading text without sound. Subtitles and captions are an essential part of business for any media organization who wants to reach the widest possible audience, for a multitude of reasons: legal requirements, international distribution, accessibility…. Captions provide…
Now part of Dalet, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform and complementary offerings, are constantly being refreshed with new features and a fully revamped user interface. We continuously strive to bring our clients the best experience, and with that in mind, we have fully refreshed the Ooyala Flex Media Platform Knowledge Base, aligned to our…
We have seen an abundance of live streams available to watch Wimbledon for several years. Take Virgin Media for instance – the broadcast channel surprised everyone in 2019 by announcing that it would be offering its customers access to all of the big matches on Centre Court in 4K with HDR. This was a strategic…
The massive amount of content available to journalists on social media is both a gift and a curse. The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ scenario on social media platforms provides journalists a wealth of real-time commentary on what is – to the digital majority – top breaking news and hot topic trends. News pros can leverage…
Cold desert mornings & IMF conversations! The sound of an alarm clock breaking through the fog of last night’s networking in the bar. It’s still dark outside, but if I don’t ride my bicycle then all those calories will turn me into a heavyweight of the industry. Two hours later, the warm shower has removed…
Government organizations and institutions are facing steep challenges to efficiently manage the massive amounts of multimedia content and associated metadata needed to fulfill their mission to actively reach, inform and better engage with citizens. To overcome these challenges, they require proven solutions that meet their demanding requirements in terms of efficiency, agility, security, cost, and…
Where does Dalet OneCut sit in the Dalet ecosystem and in the news production workflow? One of our key focuses at Dalet is to offer true unified news operations for news organizations. As part of this mission, we have developed a powerful, multimedia editing tool for journalists and storytellers: Dalet OneCut. How is Dalet OneCut…
As the way we consume content changes dramatically, broadcasters and media organizations need to constantly adapt their programming and processes with an ever-shorter time to market to follow the frenzied proliferation of new formats and versions, serving multiple distribution outlets – from theatrical releases, broadcast, social media to VOD and OTT. In a recent report…
An extension of the Dalet Galaxy five MAM, NRCS and Workflow Orchestration platform, Dalet OnePlay is a new-generation studio automation solution designed to modernize live productions, increase audience engagement and open up new revenue opportunities while optimizing operational costs and reliability. Dalet OnePlay was designed to be the perfect complement for show production, making it…
In the day-to-day operations of your media facility there exist many stress and pressure points making life interesting to put it mildly: Managing the visible challenges is demanding enough but when something materialises out of thin air and knocks a large part of yourworkflow off-line it can almost drive you to distraction. And, of course, the…
In modern newsrooms speed and accuracy are everything. The difference between breaking a news story or being an “also ran” can come down to the efficiency of your workflow in the newsroom. The ability to capture, store and find information is central – the quality of your journalists’ output relies heavily on their ability to…
This Q&A article is a repost from The Broadcast Bridge website. Kevin Savina, Product Strategy Director for Dalet, discusses with The Broadcast Bridge important 2017 trends in media asset management – multi-platform distribution, collaboration, workflow orchestration and business intelligence reporting – that broadcasters, facilities and content producers should keep at the forefront of their decision-making….
Some say the annual HPA Tech Retreat in Palm Desert, CA shapes the agenda for the rest of the year in the media industry, and as it relates to program distribution, 2018 is no exception. We’ll likely look back at 2018 as the year that IMF (the Interoperable Mastering Format) went from an emerging capability…
Staff input and adoption can make or break your next big project. Five key change management takeaways to consider for your next endeavor. Everybody Loves Change…Right? Technology moves at a breakneck pace, and some assume that the constant change around us means we are comfortable when changing tools and processes within our own workspace. This…
Did you know that most of the world does not distinguishbetween the terms “captions” and “subtitles”? Except that is, in the United States and Canada, where these terms do carry different meanings: Subtitles In North America, “subtitles” are designed to help viewers who can hear but cannot understand the language or accent, or the speech is not…
A long time ago in a time in a laboratory far, far away, a small team unpacked a shiny new server and ran their media software. Discovering that they could get standard definition video to decode and encode at almost real time, the transcode market was born. Thanks to Moore’s law and a little performance…
If you look into the meaning of NRCS, what do you get? Newsroom computer system. But let’s take it a bit further, and really break it down. Room. This word implies containment – one single location from which the news is collected, produced and distributed. Cut to this century, and that’s just not the reality…
The “blog from the show floor” has become something of a tradition now, but as this was my last IBC with Dalet, I’ve had more time off the booth than usual to get a real sense of what the focus of the show has been. Collaboration – that’s certainly been a theme everywhere I’ve been,…
Today’s tech-savvy generation looks for its news on social media networks It is no secret that social media networks are a growing source of news around the globe. In fact, the American Press Institute reports that 88% of millennials get their news from Facebook (read the full report here). While TV is still a…
The dilemma Over the years, one of the problems I hear a lot from broadcasters, especially for news and sports production workflows, is: “I have operations in different locations. I’d love to have them work as one unit and be able to collaborate closely with one another, but at the same time, in case a…
