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Tag: Media Solutions
AWS Media Insights: See the keynote on demand and explore upcoming sessions
The media industry is in the midst of massive and accelerating transformation. Watch the keynote presentation from this month’s AWS Media Insights Webcast Series to learn the trends that are changing the way content is created, distributed and consumed, and the implications for organizations across the media supply chain. Presenters also share the latest announcements […]
Weta Digital goes all-in on AWS
Future of filmmaking looks to the Cloud Founded by Peter Jackson in 1993, Weta Digital is a highly respected creative force, collaborating on visual effects (VFX) for some of the highest grossing blockbusters of all time, such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar. Having garnered six Best Visual Effects Oscars, 10 SciTech […]
Playing your ads-featured content with AWS Elemental MediaTailor and VideoJS
In the previous installments of this blog series, we showed how to monetize your content with a custom workflow with FFmpeg on HAQM Elastic Container Service at Fargate and with HAQM Rekognition. In this post, we show you how to display and interact with an HLS stream in a simple webpage similar to this. Sample […]
Successful innovation for ESSENCE as Starchive and AWS help deliver the 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture
This post is co-authored by Jack Wenzinger, AWS M&E Partner SA, Ken Shek, Sr. ML Specialist SA, and Richard Averitt, CEO of Starchive. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. ESSENCE Communications is a media, technology, […]
Virtual workstations on AWS: Discussing the next must-have studio essential
A recap of a virtual panel, moderated by postPerspective In alignment with virtual SIGGRAPH 2020, AWS hosted a five-webcasts series offering tips on best practices and production-proven insights from creative studios and technology partners. Each presentation delved into the power of the cloud for visual effects and animation workflows. Untold Studios, revealed its origin story […]
[Updated 3/15/2021] Inserting ad breaks into video content using HAQM Rekognition, AWS Elemental MediaConvert and AWS Elemental MediaTailor
Customers are often overwhelmed with the amount of undifferentiated heavy-lifting involved in preparing their media for monetization and streaming. The traditional ad insertion process is repetitive, error-prone, and time-consuming, and ads are inserted in a non-intrusive way so that the attention of the audience is not disturbed when presented with ad content. A cloud-based monetization […]
Build a compelling eCommerce experience with HAQM Interactive Video Service
Introduction HAQM Interactive Video Service (HAQM IVS) makes creating live video streams simpler than ever. This means you can spend more time creating live content and features to inspire, engage, and entice viewers. HAQM IVS helps you build a compelling, interactive platform that goes beyond traditional eCommerce experiences. In this post, I show you how […]
Creating dashboards and alarms for AWS Elemental MediaConvert using HAQM CloudWatch
Introduction If you are developing an automated video-on-demand workflow, you may at times need to monitor specific parts of the workflow pipeline. When it comes to the transcoding piece of the workflow, AWS Elemental MediaConvert is integrated with HAQM CloudWatch to provide metrics and events from the MediaConvert service. You can create simple CloudWatch dashboards […]
Using HAQM Interactive Video Service timed metadata – Part 2
Introduction Before we begin This blog post is part two of a two-part series aiming to excite and enable developers to build and learn how to use the HAQM Interactive Video Service (HAQM IVS) Timed Metadata feature. You should complete the steps in part one of this series to successfully complete this tutorial. The third step […]
Using HAQM Interactive Video Service timed metadata – Part 1
Introduction Before we begin This blog post is part one of a two-part series aiming to excite and enable developers to build and learn how to use the HAQM Interactive Video Service (HAQM IVS) Timed Metadata feature. In this walk-through tutorial, you will build a full end-to-end working demonstration of an HAQM IVS live stream […]