M+E Daily

The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will host its seventh annual Take the DAM(n) Tour events April 15-16, this time as live e-tours, instead of as the guided NAB Show floor tours that had been held for six years running.

Running from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT, each day will see companies provide 15-minute presentations around their DAM and MAM offerings, with Mary Yurkovic, director of Smart Content for MESA, guiding pre-registered attendees through a review of each company’s capabilities. Along with the ability to discuss challenges and current trends in the asset management space, tour participants will have their questions answered by leading experts, and will hear how the technologies complement overall content strategies.

Here’s a quick look at what companies will be presenting during day one of the online TTDT. Only those who pre-register will be able to attend and access the presentations immediately following the e-tour.

• BeBanjo sales manager Dan Meyer will highlight how having good operational tools, managing planning, scheduling, metadata and rights, gives you offers better control, visibility and productivity. All vital in today’s competitive landscape, especially when experimenting with new services and business models, without incurring major operations costs.

• Prime Focus Technologies’ Rohan Warey, director of pre-sales in North America, will share the benefits of the online software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration suite CLEAR Production Cloud, which gives content creators control of their assets, from pre-production prep files, schedules, scripts and test shots, to production dailies, post-production cuts and final versions. Latest features — including an Apple TV app, next-generation HTML5 player, one-click share and support for mezzanine content — will be discussed.

• Patrick McCarthy, platform data specialist for Meta Data Systems Ltd., will showcase his company’s offering for the front-end to the modern supply chain, and how his company provides a platform-agnostic user Interface for any modern component-based asset management system.

• Veritone’s Garron Bateman, senior sales engineer, is set to dive into the company’s Digital Media Hub offering, an intuitive web portal allowing for secure, cloud-native global access to content for key stakeholders, including news media and corporate partners. The customizable service provides tailored, broadcast-quality content — including trailers, highlights, press conferences and still images —for immediate distribution.

• EditShare CTO Stephen Tallamy will share how over the last decade, cloud-computing has enabled massive-scale live streaming and VOD platforms, but that end-to-end production, video editing and post-production workflows have yet to make their way into the cloud in any large-scale way. Until now. He’ll tackle what users need to know about everything around the migration of production and post-production workflows into the cloud.

• Kyle Evans, director of sales and business development for Tape Ark, will share an overview of how Seagate Powered by Tape Ark is liberating trapped data from tapes to the cloud and the tangible opportunities the solution offers the industry, with a case study: around The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

• Signiant’s Mike Nash, director of product management,  will provide a look into how the company’s Media Shuttle product is a perfect DAM companion for media and entertainment clients, and how the fully enterprise-ready solution is being used by some of the world’s largest companies to handle valuable content.

• Bart Van Daele, product manager for Synamedia, will show off his company’s Digital Content Manager offering enables 8K live encoding, with bandwidth efficiency optimizations for streaming, cloud-native encoders, and the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to further optimize codecs.