Nevada City, California, August 29, 2024 – As media proliferates across a growing number of platforms - including OTT streaming services, social media video channels, direct-to-consumer offerings, interactive content experiences, and traditional linear TV - the media and entertainment industry faces unprecedented broadcast and video production challenges, pushing traditional media processing to its limits. Addressing these challenges requires solutions capable of handling this new landscape of media ingest and delivery, which includes managing diverse formats, ensuring compatibility across numerous platforms, and meeting varying standards for quality and accessibility, all while streamlining the process to accommodate the accelerated production and distribution timelines demanded by today’s content-hungry audiences.

At the IBC2024 in Amsterdam (September 13-16, 2024), Telestream will showcase a range of AI-powered solutions engineered to transform how media professionals ingest, enhance, and deliver content. These media processing tools are designed to optimize every step of the media production lifecycle, with a focus on speed, quality, and efficiency.

Eliminate Bottlenecks and Accelerate Media Processing Workflows

In today's multi-platform media environment, the rapid delivery of high-quality content across various platforms is a necessity. However, media companies are encountering significant challenges that impede their ability to process media swiftly and meet the demands for quick content turnaround.

“While the promise of AI and Machine Learning are riding high on a wave of hype, we at Telestream see these innovations as powerful enablers for solving real-world problems that our customers face,” said Simon Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Telestream. “We are delivering innovative solutions that provide real value as the industry evolves. By tackling the industry’s critical bottlenecks head-on, we are empowering our customers to achieve more with fewer resources and solve challenges that have long impeded progress.”

In direct response to these industry-wide content delivery bottlenecks, Telestream is excited to announce a suite of innovative AI-powered media processing tools, marking a significant advancement in the production and distribution of media content.

• Automated Workflow Creation: Telestream's Vantage Workflow Designer automates the configuration of media processing workflows by leveraging AI. This drastically reduces manual interventions, streamlines operations, and minimizes errors, significantly speeding up the production cycle.
• Intelligent Quality Control: Telestream Qualify automates 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 quality control.
• Efficient Captioning: Media companies face pressure to meet accessibility standards and audience demand for accurate, multilingual captions. Stanza’s new AI-powered speech-to-text captioning capabilities offer instant caption file generation with built-in support for translations, comprehensive formatting, and flexible layout controls, available as a cloud service or locally on a captioner’s machine.

Seamless Integration and User-Friendly Adoption

Telestream understands that AI should enhance workflows, not complicate them. It has designed its solutions for easy integration within existing workflows, reducing concerns about the complexity of new technologies and enabling media entities to innovate confidently while maintaining control over their content.

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About Telestream

For more than 25 years, Telestream has been the catalyst for innovative and industry-defining solutions that have helped thousands of enterprises and professionals deliver engaging and impactful content to their audiences. The company's premier glass-to-glass media processing, production, and distribution ecosystem for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises operations continually pushes the boundaries of cutting-edge technology to deliver best-in-class workflow automation, quality control monitoring, content management, analytics, and distribution. Leading media and entertainment organizations worldwide rely on Telestream every day for the optimal and reliable delivery of their most mission-critical operations. Telestream is the recipient of countless awards for its video content products and services and is privately held.