M+E Connections
WiTH Oct. 6 Connection Corner Event to Discuss Practical AI
Several top minds in the media and entertainment space will gather Oct. 6 for a one-hour panel covering perhaps the most crucial question the industry is facing today: what, exactl... More
M&E Journal: Balancing Machine Efficiency With the Human Touch in Quality Control
Automation has become an increasingly important aspect of media and entertainment workflows. It allows for more efficiency and quicker turnaround times while taking responsibility ... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: Sept. 25-29
Technicolor Creative Studios digs into the world of concept art, MicroStrategy talks embedded analytics, and Slalom offers a big-name panel covering production in the cloud. Tho... More
XL8 at IBC: Opportunities Abound in Amsterdam
IBC 2023 was only the second time San Jose, Calif.-based AI technology firm XL8 had headed to Amsterdam, and the company didn’t waste a minute of the opportunity, showcasing live... More
M&E Journal: Strengthening Your Content’s Protection: Go Beyond DRM
The protection of valuable video content clearly remains paramount — and even more so than yesteryear due to the vast media consumption choices demanded by viewers today. Howe... More
M&E Journal: Version Control: The Foundation for Automation in Virtual Production
There are a lot of moving parts involved in making a virtual production today — dozens of digital content creation tools (DCCs), multiple pieces of software that track assets and... More
ITS: Automation: MESA Highlights Next Phase of Fabric Cloud Localization Blueprint
During the Sept. 15 ITS: Automation event, held during IBC at the W Amsterdam, MESA turned the spotlight on the next phase of Fabric’s Cloud Localization Blueprint (CLB) that wa... More
M&E Journal: Setting the Stage
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. Today, the Academy is one ... More
Wasabi at IBC: New Partnerships, New Solutions
At IBC 2023, Wasabi showed off its simple and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses that attended from all around the world, showing how the offering enables organizations to... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: Sept. 18-22
Wasabi offers tips to stop ransomware, Fortinet dives into the world of usage-based licensing, and Richey May invites Los Angeles customers to mingle over whiskey. Those are jus... More
Viewers, not Reviewers, Determine Who Wins the Streaming Melee
Have you ever wondered — really wondered — why cable TV fell out of favor with folks? Seriously, they said they had “everything” people wanted…fake reality shows; game... More
Eluvio, Signiant, Verimatrix Highlight Latest Innovations
MESA members Eluvio, Signiant and Verimatrix all used an online webcast on Sept. 7 to tout their latest innovations ahead of IBC2023, which kicks off in Amsterdam on Sept. 15. S... More
Fabric, EIDR, Xperi, Studios Launch Authenticated Data Specification (ADS) Project at IBC
Media and entertainment catalog management firm Fabric is collaborating with industry leaders IMDb, FOX Entertainment, Paramount, ITV, EIDR and Xperi to solve one of the entertainm... More
Adobe Unveils More AI Features and Technology on Eve of IBC
On the eve of IBC2023 in Amsterdam, Adobe introduced several new features using artificial intelligence (AI). “A major focus for our team over the last year has been connectin... More
Perforce: How Hansoft Makes a Game Developer’s Job Easier
Perforce’s Hansoft application for planning and collaboration makes game development a whole lot easier for the creative teams working on those titles, Johan Karlsson, product ma... More
M&E Journal: Don’t Neglect Glossaries When Automating Localization
Speech synthesis is a technology that has been in the forefront of many discussions recently in the media and entertainment industry, with a strong media presence and funding spree... More
Warner Sisters President to Offer Up SoCal Women’s Closing Keynote
At Women in Technology Hollywood’s (WiTH) SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit, being held 3rd Nov. at Nya Studios in Los Angeles, Cass Warner, president of Warner Sisters, accompli... More
M&E Journal: Automation is Nothing New. So Why Isn’t Everyone Using It?
Automation debuted nearly 2,000 years ago, when the Chinese developed the water-wheel to automate such activities as grinding grains and raising water. Over the two millennia s... More
EditShare, Shift Media to Merge, Operate as EditShare
Media management and workflow processes specialist EditShare has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with cloud-native video solution provider Shift Media... More
M&E Journal: Generative AI Meets Multi-Modal AI for Video-Based Content Classification
Text-based indexing peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and companies leveraged keyword optimization to promote their brands, products, and services. In 2007, the iPhone’... More