Latest news

Cantemo, a provider of next-generation media management solutions, is to offer a pre-release preview of the latest version of Cantemo Portal, its media management platform, at IBC 2018. Cantemo Portal 4.0 features core upgrades, improving the simplicity of file transfers and downloads, and offering better control over user access. The latest version of the solution features upgrades to Elasticsearch, Python and Django. This includes API support for Elasticsearch aggregations, making searching and indexing even the largest of content libraries simple, quick and accurate.

Read more …

Never has there been such a need for video content to be so compelling and available on multiple devices and platforms instantly. With so much competition for viewing time in almost every media sector, producers are creating more elaborate content in a number of separate formats and resolutions. In response to this, AI technology looks sets to completely shake up the way we produce content for entertainment, pointing to a revolution in cinema, TV, VR and other video content production.

Read more …

Often times you will want to use third party tools to create files and related items in Portal rather than uploading, importing from storage, or using an auto-import folder. Here is the process I took which worked in registering both a new element available in a storage as well as adding different shapes to it. Hopefully it helps and is easy to replicate. I did it all with curl, but using anything else that can post should work fine.

Read more …

Competition in the OTT space is at an all-time-high. Faced with an increasingly saturated market, OTT providers must innovate if they want to succeed, by offering more than the TV experience. The challenge for OTT providers in particular is the multitude of different versions needed of every piece of content. This is because content needs to be distributed for multiple platforms and devices, which all have different formatting requirements. It is also because OTT platforms are in many cases being distributed outside of any previous geographic limitations.

Read more …

What is GDPR? The law is changing with regards to how companies use people’s data. From May 25th this year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be introduced to protect EU citizens from organisations using their data wrongfully or irresponsibly. This puts control of people’s data back into their own hands, rightfully so. Under the new law, people have the right to access any information a company holds about them and to know why that data is being processed.

Read more …

At Cantemo, we are continually updating our solutions to deliver the right tools in a constantly evolving industry. Each new version of Portal improves the efficiency that bit more, meaning you can get your content in front of the consumer that much quicker and easier. The latest version of Cantemo Portal is no exception, with a number of improvements to the review and approve workflows, application of metadata, and some extra flexibility in Rules Engine.

Read more …

Cantemo has launched the latest version of its Media Asset Management solution, Cantemo Portal. Cantemo Portal 3.4 features improvements to the review and approve workflows. This includes an improved user experience, as well as support for timecode based commenting. Users can add comments linked to a specific time within the video. These can also be easily updated and replied to against that same specific time. The latest version also enables single-instance metadata fields.

Read more …

It’s now been exactly two weeks since NAB came to an end and what a show it was for the Cantemo team. We gave presentations on AI, hosted a lunch and learn, spoke on podcasts and offered demos of a number of new partner integrations – it was a busy week! On the Wednesday, we were really pleased to co-host a ‘lunch-and-learn’ with partner, NetApp, to discuss the joint deployment of Cantemo Portal and NetApp’s StorageGRID Webscale at one of Germany’s most state-of the-art production and media technology companies, ProSiebenSat.

Read more …

Cantemo announced today an API integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), featuring interoperability between iconik and AWS Elemental MediaConvert. This API integration between the two solutions enables customers to easily transcode for various video formats, whilst keeping all of that media well organized, making it easy to find the right versions, collaborate with other stakeholders, and distribute to multiple platforms. AWS Media Services are a family of fully-managed services that make it easy to build reliable, broadcast-quality video workflows in the Cloud.

Read more …

Last month, NMR exhibited at BVE 2018 at the Excel in London. At our booth, we demoed Cantemo Portal and the new hybrid-cloud hub for managing video, iconik. Lots of visitors to our booth were interested in hearing more about the video (or artificial) intelligence capabilities of iconik, which enables users to identify and automatically tag video content upon ingestion with metadata capable of describing even minute objects and entities. This means that content ingested by the platform is highly discoverable.

Read more …

Cantemo, a provider of next-generation media management solutions, has introduced a new integration panel for many Adobe® Creative Cloud® applications in its cloud video hub, iconik. The panel will be demonstrated at NAB. The panel makes it easy to use Adobe solutions within iconik and, having initially been integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro® CC, has now been extended to support Adobe Photoshop® CC, Adobe Audition® CC and Adobe Illustrator® CC. Integrating iconik with these solutions means that users can access and edit media files within their normal environment, whilst being able to easily share and collaborate with others, wherever they are in the world.

Read more …

Next week, the Cantemo team will be heading to Las Vegas for NAB 2018! NAB is one of the biggest shows in our calendar so we have a number of exciting things planned and will be announcing several new features and integrations. iconik & AI Last November, we officially launched iconik, our hybrid-cloud based platform for managing video. Being cloud-based, and in order to keep up with the requirements of our customers, we have implemented a continuous delivery approach to iconik updates, which means the platform is in constant development.

Read more …