The Cloud Platform For Video Collaboration Use-case

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The Cloud Platform for Video Collaboration Use-Case Overview January 2016 Aframe Use-Case Overview About Aframe Aframe is a cloud video collaboration platform, helping organizations to work more effectively with colleagues, clients and partners by centralizing assets, reducing complexity and enabling everyone to view, access and work with high resolution, multi-format media wherever they are. Aframe saves cost, creates business efficiencies and increases the usage, lifetime and returns on content. Aframe meets the most demanding standards and is trusted by the world’s leading broadcast, enterprise and new media organizations. • Online, secure asset management • Accelerated file transfer • Transcode in the cloud • Support for professional video formats and unlimited file sizes • HTML5 video player with review controls • Frame accurate metadata with dynamic searching and filtering • Online sharing, collaboration, review and approval • Comprehensive Metrics Dashboard for a birds-eye view of usage and distribution statistics Aframe is the perfect solution for video production, marketing, promos and reversioning groups, training divisions and sales teams that need to keep their content secure while working with colleagues, clients and partners in different locations or timezones. Aframe is trusted by the world’s leading broadcast, media and corporate organizations Trusted by Leading Organizations © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 2 2 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe for Production Aframe reduces the complexity of managing media across all types of production. Cloud-powered workflows means everyone, wherever they are based, has instant access to the content they need. By eliminating the traditional challenges, teams can focus on creating the best quality content and complete productions in record time. “ All in all we were able to save 20 weeks on the edit, equating to about two weeks per episode, which is a phenomenal saving. Nick Metcalfe Scripted TV - Tiger Aspect Tiger Aspect’s geographically dispersed execs review clips on mobiles and tablets for fast review and approval of dailies, whilst retaining control of access to work in progress assets. This means they are able to dedicate more time to storytelling and the creative output, ultimately delivering higher quality programming. Executive Producer Read case study ” Speed Non-Scripted TV - Arrow Media With large scale shoots Arrow Media needed a system that was flexible across various workflows; managing proxies, HD camera cards and archive. Aframe provides greater efficiency on all production workflows, enabling crews to share dailies and review rushes quickly. All content is stored in Aframe’s central cloud repository making it instantly accessible and protected. Finish productions in record time with cloud powered workflows. Everyone has instant access to the content they need from one central place. Quality Control By reducing the barriers of production, work with the teams you want to and spend more time crafting your story. Professionalism Post Production - Timeline TV As a post facility to some of the UK’s most iconic shows, Timeline needed to circulate rough cuts to exec producers, editors and commissioners spread throughout the country. The team also need to share DNx36 HD edit-ready format footage between their Manchester and London facilities. This dramatically cut the cost of sending drives by courier and accelerated the time taken to review content. Improve project management and collaboration with colleagues, clients and partners. Film - MarVista Entertainment Marvista needed to combine digital dailies content from a host of contributors and cameras formats into a single project space. Using Aframe, MarVista streamlined their workflow by sending footage direct from multiple camera types (Sony XDCAM and ARRI Alexa) into Aframe’s secure cloud-based video platform – using the latest accelerated file transfer technology. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 3 3 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe for News Gathering/Events Aframe uses bespoke cloud technology to improve the efficiency of your processes across the board – optimize upload, speed up time to air and simplify collaboration and sharing. Every service offered is about making human resources operate more effectively – whilst saving time and money. Aframe supports large volumes of multi-format media, unlimited file sizes and most industry codecs. A secure central platform reduces complexity, technical issues and eliminates the time, cost and risk of working with DVDs, hard drives or unreliable FTP. News Gathering - Fox Sports 1 FOX required a solution that could support the ingest of a wide range of professional, prosumer and consumer video formats to offer stringers maximum flexibility in their choice of camera. Aframe then standardizes this content into their house format broadcast version. This is created at the point of ingest, without any manual intervention. Content can be quickly transferred into a local edit system of choice or pushed straight to air for breaking news stories. All camera metadata is included at ingest and is carried with the footage throughout the Aframe lifecycle and into editing, with the ability to add metadata to the timeline using Aframe. “ Aframe wasn’t the first time we had tried a video management platform, we had previously tried various file hosting and transfer services, but couldn’t cope with the amount of content we were creating or the complex functionality we required. However, with Aframe, all of the HD media is ingested directly from the camera in its native format and uploaded straight into a secure cloud storage facility through accelerated UDP file transfer technology – saving time and courier charges. This was key for us when it came to the decision process as it enables the team to reliably upload and handle content on a daily basis from remote locations without any loss in quality. John Dollin Senior Systems and Operations Manager Read case study ” Events - MTV MTV selected Aframe for on-site media liaison for EMA shows in Belfast and Frankfurt. MTV created an Aframe project that up to 200 journalists could access and view and download footage directly from the online platform. Digital - Arsenal Media Group Arsenal’s challenge was to syndicate high value, rights-owned content of football’s most exciting content quickly and efficiently from a range of sources. Gather preand post-match content like interviews, press conferences and stadium action, as well as ad hoc footage of team events, whilst overcoming the problems of FTP, satellite and other transfer methods. Aframe provides a one-size-fits-all ingest platform that can cope with the demands of a multitude of high resolution material, providing seamless transcoding, review and share facilities in the browser. Arsenal’s journalists’ notes are transferred into the edit, before being distributed for review and approval, then broadcast out to the website, social media platforms, and worldwide TV broadcast programming. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 Worldwide Accessibility Aframe exists entirely in the cloud – this eases your access and improves your security. High-Speed Transfers UDP accelerated technology speeds footage ingest – it’s faster than FTP and cheaper than a satellite uplink. Digital Beats Physical If your business spends money on DVDs, tapes, couriers, FTP servers, physical backups or storage media – you will save time and money with Aframe. 4 4 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe for Promos & Reversioning Aframe’s secure central platform helps promos and reversioning groups globally take control of their assets and manage them more effectively. With content instantly accessed from the cloud, teams spend less time wrestling with technical issues, improve productivity and increase the revenue from their content. Promos - Nine Networks Nine’s promos team required after-hours approval of mixed format, high res content by network executives. With Aframe automated workflows, promo editors easily share promos for review. Reviewers play the file on any device and provide prompt timecode accurate feedback and a Approve/Reject notification. This enables Nine to fulfil their corporate aim to ‘get people home’. Compliance - Zee TV “ We’re delighted to team with Aframe. They’ve enhanced our interactions with global vendors and suppliers by making A+E Networks’ content more easily accessible, and improving the efficiency of our post-production process. Lois Nemcovsky VP International Operations Read case study ” Reduce Complexity All finished masters are stored on Aframe’s secure cloud platform so that legal and compliance teams can easily view and mark up changes for their respective local territories. This speeds up the editing and localization process without congesting their network. Less time spent wrestling with technical issues saves time and means that teams can be more productive. Increase Control A central platform helps you take control of your IP, manage who has access to content and what they do with it. Program Department - TV2 Utilizing Aframe as a central hub between the broadcaster and the production companies they work with, the program department can quickly review and approve finished shows before they are delivered. A formerly cumbersome process for TV2 and production houses has become far more efficient and shortened the delivery time of finished programmes. Improve Productivity Bring together colleagues, clients and partners for effective collaboration. International - A+E Networks A+E wanted better visibility and more input and control over regionally produced programs. Aframe provided a central location where production companies and channel partners could collaborate on work in progress and A+E marketing group could oversee the brand and manage final deliverables for promos. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 5 5 Aframe “ Use-Case Overview Aframe for Sales With Aframe, commercial groups can create online catalogs, sales kits and screeners to improve professionalism and customer service. The central cloud platform overcomes the commercial and technical challenges of securely managing and distributing assets to improve partner communications, streamline the sales process, broaden sales reach and ultimately increase revenue. Screeners - Keshet International Keshet sales team spent excessive time dealing with technology issues which protracted the sales cycle. Keshet deployed Aframe as a central resource for securely managing and sharing screeners with international partners. The rapid review process saves time and frees everyone to concentrate on building relationships and closing deals. “ Aframe provides a variety of benefits, but most of all I can confidently say it makes our sales processes shorter. The ease of getting the decision making materials in front of the client definitely helps accelerate the process and takes my mind off having to worry about a complicated process of uploading, downloading and file sizes. It’s a great platform and I would definitely attribute the ease and efficiency of Aframe towards helping me achieve my targets. I would certainly recommend Aframe to other organizations. Cynthia Kennedy Sales Director ” Read case study Sales Efficiency Easily create online catalogs, sales kits and screeners. Improve your organization’s professionalism, reach and revenue, overnight. Self Serve Distribution - Fox Sports 1 News desk needed a way of sharing breaking news footage quickly and easily across all territories to provide an easier and faster way to distribute and sell finished content to their international partners. Utilizing Aframe as their central portal for storing and distributing media, the news desk has seen an 9 fold increase in content usage and monetization globally. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 A central portal helps overcome the commercial and technical challenges of distributing assets. Users securely access the media they need to share, streamlining the sales process. Professional Service Innovative technology combined with a simple user interface gives distribution groups a professional image and improves customer service. 6 6 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe for Marketing With its heritage in broadcast, and a growing rosta of corporate clients, Aframe is uniquely placed to help training and marketing departments with best practice management of video. With less time spent wrestling with technical issues, colleagues, clients and partners can upload, organize, search and share courses and marketing materials instantly, improving collaboratation on projects wherever they are. “ Before Aframe, I would have to make all the decisions about shot selection, select all of the clips, upload them to an FTP server, have the editor download them and live with my choices. Aframe makes repurposing easier and more effective. Portal - Bridgeman Footage Bridgeman’s marketing team needed to host a screening site to empower clip sales from their archive library. This needed to be on brand, whilst simple enough for users to search, find, and purchase footage. Aframe stores the original media including full metadata before transcoding content into a web proxy for streaming and then is tagged for fast retreival. Once content is purchased, Aframe automatically delivers this content to the customer in a format of choice. Jeff Gangemi ” Senior Marketing & Communications Manager Read case study Increase Security A cloud-based portal means the team can be more flexible and adaptive to changing scenarios. Training - Apple Apple’s training department struggled to gather and distribute finished content from multiple sources. Apple chose Aframe to enable third party suppliers to upload content so they can be worked on and sent for internal review and approval. Finished masters can then be distributed across the global Apple Store retail network for training on new products and services. Increase Control A central platform helps you take control of your IP, manage who has access to content and what they do with it. Improve Productivity Bring together colleagues, clients and partners for effective collaboration. Corporate Communications - TELUS International TELUS International use Aframe to centralize locally captured production assets. Remotely located editors can immediately and securely access footage via the browser, making rough cuts available to international reviewers who could add comments tied to timecode, with all feedback logged and visible centrally. With Aframe, the marketing and learning and development teams were then able to easily repurpose finished pieces and footage before sending out to relevant employees and departments globally. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 7 7 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe for Asset Management Aframe’s secure, central platform reduces the complexity of working with high resolution, multi-format media and helps colleagues, global offices, partners and agencies collaborate more effectively. With broadcast-grade technology, business leaders can scale their video operations fast without compromising quality or security. Library - VICE Media Vice had a fragmented global infrastructure. Finding footage was time consuming and distributing individual programs to each of their 35 international offices was inefficient and costly. Vice uses Aframe as secure central media library for storing finished masters. Vice offices can search thousands of clips to create pitch and brand reels while colleagues, clients and partners across the globe with the appropriate permissions can efficiently self-serve the materials they need. Full disaster recovery gives Vice peace of mind that their highest value content is always secure and available. Contribution / Distribution - British Film Institute (BFI) BFI needed help gathering content from a range of suppliers, before QC checking and ingesting into their archive and digital player. Third party suppliers send their finished masters to BFI’s secure portal on Aframe in a range of high res formats. Viewing proxies are automatically generated for easy online viewing and quality control checking. High resolution content is downloaded to be added to BFI’s own archive. Connecting restoration partners with the BFI has increased collaboration and speeded up the process of delivery. “ The platform is making our processes more efficient, which will save time and money; but it’s also about giving us more time to produce interesting, innovative content that will support our fundraising and campaigning efforts. Ian Williamson ICT Director Read case study ” Accessible Eliminate the time, cost and risk of sharing media files globally. Aframe can manage high volume, multiple formats and unlimited file sizes. Powerful Aframe is the only system to combine a professional video toolset with enterprise grade cloud security, storage and worldwide accessibility. Professional Service Aframe has passed the industry’s most stringent security and disaster recovery tests and is trusted by the world’s largest broadcasters and corporations. Disaster Recovery - UNICEF When storing video Unicef UK relied on multiple external hard drives and RAID drives which meant there was no way to collaborate or share footage remotely. Adding further complexity - storage on these drives was at full capacity. To future proof content from any failure or corruption, Unicef UK looked to Aframe to provide full disaster recovery of their video assets, whilst providing a platform for partners and teams to access and repurpose content. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 8 8 Aframe Use-Case Overview Aframe Value Summary Increase Revenue Re-purpose and extend the reach of content to increase revenue and returns by making it easier to find once it has been produced. Improve Collaboration Live and timecode accurate feedback against the video content, improves communication between clients and partners, giving a more efficient and rewarding customer experience. Improve Efficiency A centralised platform for collaboration transforms operations, creates modern, streamlined workflows and improves productivity. Make Full Potential of Your Content Dynamic searching and self-service discoverability of content increases the efficiency of the workflow and the usage, lifetime and value of assets. Save Time A simple, intuitive interface with support for multi-format media reduces complexity and speeds up production time. Security Full encryption, multi-layer security and private infrastructure provides industry leading control of content and protects your brand. The creation of 2 x additional copies of each piece of original material (so 3 in total), 1 of which is stored in a geographically diverse location, provides back-up of content. Scalability A flexible cloud solution creates business agility and helps you scale fast without compromising quality. Control Costs Consolidating to Software as a Service avoids capital expense and helps you manage your costs. © Aframe Media Services Ltd. aframe.com - Confidential - UK & EU: +44 (0)800 197 6870 US: +1 978-799-9440 9 9