a strong media supply chain with its links in the cloud · there should be flow control there...

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A strong media supply chainwith its links in the cloud

Isak Jonsson, PhDCTO, Vidispine AB

Future Trends Theatre, IBC,Amsterdam, 2018-09-16


About Vidispine

• Design principles are• No lock-in & full transparency• Act as an eco-system of solution• Cost control• Agile: Start small, ready to grow

• Founded 2009• 35 people in Sweden• Part of Arvato since last year• 150+ installations, all over

the world• Cloud since 2011


The supply chain• One single strong

chain?

• Or a rusty mess?


The supply chain - ComponentsLinks in the chain

• Capture• Curation• Asset management

• Transcoding• DRM• QC

• Distribution• Monetization

And: There should be flow control There should be cost control It should be easy to set up It should be future-proof: hybrid

and multi-cloud


Your Media Supply Chain in less than an hour


Connecting the dots (building your chain)Services are added to the Vidispine API instance via the Vidinet Dashboard


Choose best of breedsLinks in the chain

• Capture Auto-import from Azure, AWS. On-prem: VSA with acceleration

• Curation EditMate, AccuratePlayer• Media management Vidispine API

• Transcoding Vidispine Transcoder with Tachyon, Elemental MediaConvert, Hybrik, Bitmovin

• DRM Elemental MediaConvert• QC Tektronix Aurora, Vidispine Transcoder

• Distribute CloudFront, Azure CDN, Akamai, …• Monetization Data aggregation and analysis, Open integration API

Green: availabletoday in Vidinet


Configurable and API driven


Many options: The chain becomes strongerthan the weakest link

The API driven approach makes it possible to • Have multiple paths in the chain• Have integration with other, non-

Vidispine components• Follow the asset’s lifecycle and integrate

this with business tools


API for stabilityUI customizable for workflow

https://www.vidispine.com/blog/how-to-build-media-applications-with-vidispine-development-toolkit-pt1


Cost controlA challenge for users of cloud services is to get transparency of the cost model of the service.

Vidinet Media Services gives API endpoints to query operations for cost. This is supported for all services managed by Vidinet.


Summary

• The cloud gives the capability to build media supply chains in an agile way.

• New services can be added on demand.• Testing new workflows becomes very simple.

• Things to look for:• Multi-cloud and multi-region awareness• Predictable cost model• Support for (partial) on-premise workflows

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