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Creating a feature film with DaVinci Resolve on AWS

Getting started Roswell Films and Therapy Studios partnered with Blackmagic Design and AWS to solve a prevalent problem: the nature of working from home limits access to editing suites and offices. A feature length film still has the same deadlines, however, and needs to be edited in a seamless fashion. Those edits used Blackmagic Design’s […]

Orchestrated Media as a Service: A hybrid cloud solution powered by IMT-SoDA, Levels Beyond, and AWS

Orchestrated media as a service: A hybrid cloud solution powered by IMT-SoDA, Levels Beyond, and AWS

Authored by Jason Kranitz, President of Systems Integration at IMT. One of the most powerful things about AWS is its ability to provide a common service foundation for technology partners in the AWS Partner Network to work together to help customers meet their objectives. Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) and Levels Beyond recently proved this […]

Protecting your video stream with HAQM CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 2

HAQM CloudFront alongside media services and serverless technologies from AWS make it easy to protect your video stream from unauthorized viewing. In part one of this blog post, you learned how to set up HAQM Cognito, create an API to generate cookies and protect your stream from unauthorized access. In this post, we will provide […]

[Updated 1/4/2021]: Protecting your video stream with HAQM CloudFront and serverless technologies – Part 1

HAQM CloudFront alongside media services and serverless technologies from AWS make it easy to protect your video stream from unauthorized viewing. Whether it’s to ensure audiences have the right subscription to view the content, or that sensitive information can only be seen by permissioned viewers, there are many reasons content providers need to secure their […]

Getting started with AWS cloud video editing

In the first installment of Edit in the Cloud series, we covered the fundaments of enabling various editorial personas on AWS. Now it is time to get started and deploy the GitHub sample. This step-by-step guide details how to deploy an edit host, storage, and connectivity on AWS. This template allows users to build additional […]

How to use HAQM Rekognition video for product placement in video

How to use HAQM Rekognition Video for product placement in video

Product placement in video is not a new concept. In fact, the first occurrence is in 1927 when the first movie to win a Best Picture Oscar (Wings) has a scene where a chocolate bar is eaten, followed by a long close-up of the chocolate’s logo. Imagine if viewers in 1927 could right there and […]

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is preserving rock music history with HAQM S3 Glacier Deep Archive

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – aka Rock Hall – in Cleveland, Ohio is on a mission to engage, teach and inspire through the power of ROCK! The Rock Hall contains thousands of items of memorabilia from every era and genre of rock and roll, and millions of documents, audio recordings, photographs and […]

Get started with digital content creation on AWS

A tutorial series for cloud-based digital content creation HAQM Web Services (AWS) offers digital content creators, including visual effects and animation studios, a tutorial series to take production entirely to the cloud. This teaching series is designed for small teams looking for ways to scale production, work remotely, and improve collaboration. In the series, we […]

AWS Insights highlights APN partner launch announcements

Today, thousands of media professionals are tuning into the AWS Insights Online Conference, a virtual event featuring strategies and solutions for M&E workloads across multiple keynotes and three session tracks. As a part of this in-depth learning event, the AWS Partner Network (APN) team covers 27 recent launches and API/SDK integrations made by APN media partners across […]

Cloud-optimized channel origination with Imagine Communications’ Versio playout solution

Authored by Joe Ashba, Senior Solutions Architect, Imagine Communications.  Using AWS building blocks to create a linear playout solution for the cloud As media companies explore new opportunities afforded to them by cloud technologies, they recognize the potential for tapping these resources creatively to strengthen and diversify their broadcast portfolio. Channel origination is the most […]