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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 10 | October 2015

InMedia

Volicon Observer Media Intelligence
Platform Intros Storyboard Feature
V

olicon has announced that it has
enhanced its Observer Media
Intelligence Platform with a new
storyboard capability, built into the
platform's Review application, that
radically reduces the time and effort
required to identify, review, clip, and
annotate a specific segment of recorded
content for immediate sharing.
The updated Review application
also features improvements to the
media player and a new professional
multiplayer display that simplifies
management and review of multiple
channels simultaneously. Together,
these updates to the Observer
Media Intelligence Platform allow
broadcasters
to
monitor
and
monetise
their
valuable
video
assets more broadly, efficiently, and
cost-effectively.
"The new storyboard feature in our
Review application is enormously
valuable when users must find content
quickly without the benefit of specific
timecode information, as is often the

case when creating highlights clips
from news and sports programming,"
said Gary Learner, Chief Technology
Officer at Volicon. "Representing
video with a series of automatically
generated thumbnails and providing
robust
playback
controls,
the
storyboard feature gives users the
tools they need to locate high-value
content - even when searching hours
of video - with speed and ease."
The Observer platform records
content from broadcast and other
sources and makes this media
immediately available via an intuitive
browser-based user interface. The
interface allows multiple users
to stream, analyse, and review
that recorded content, along with
associated metadata, from anywhere
at any time. The Review application's
new storyboard capability makes it
easier than ever for these users to
find specific video frames, a capability
critical to creating timely video clips
for multiplatform distribution.

Volicon
Observer
Media
Intelligence
Platform with
Enhanced
Storyboard
Feature
in Review
Application

The Review application's storyboard
- a series of thumbnails representing
video over a large block of time
- enables users to zoom in on evernarrower windows of time, selecting
different thumbnails and scanning
forward and back at 4x, 8x, 16x, or
32x to identify the segment they
need. Using the mouse wheel to scan
through video frame by frame, the
user can employ straightforward
controls to mark in and out points
for clip extraction, select and crop a
video frame to serve as a thumbnail
for the new clip, add comments or a
description, and export the complete
piece for sharing with colleagues,

clients, or social media and online
video platforms. The new professional
multiplayer display for the Review
application allows users to browse by
channel name and then set and view
favourite channels, or to access video
instantly based on time and date with
no retrieval delay. Multiple channels
can be displayed three ways - picturein-picture, full-screen, or split-screen
- and a "sync to me" feature facilitates
single-click syncing of all channels to a
specific date and time. Navigation via
the Review application's media player
also has been enhanced. A new seek
bar provides a configurable duration
for each channel and player window.
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