Remote and Distributed Live Productions
Vantage now offers a seamless “end-to-end” captioning workflow, providing solutions for live productions, including sports, cultural, or political events. Production companies increasingly produce these events remotely or in a distributed manner, often with reduced staff. While this reduces costs, maximizing audience engagement and revenue remains critical. Companies aim to create Video on Demand (VoD) versions, such as highlight packages, news inserts, or full event replays to make the most our of their content.
As the competition for audience attention intensifies, delivering content swiftly becomes crucial to retaining and expanding viewer engagement. Furthermore, today’s audiences are more discerning and accustomed to high-quality, readily available content. They expect these VoD versions to be accessible almost immediately, in excellent quality, and compatible with any device.
The Importance of Closed Captions
For both regulatory and accessibility reasons, VoD content must include accurate closed captions or subtitles. Although technology for capturing, editing, and repackaging content has improved, content producers have continued to face challenges in one area – The Captioning Workflow. To meet expectations, captions must accurately reflect spoken dialogue and, in some cases, include sound descriptions. Thus, producers must generate captions both quickly and accurately.
Challenges and Solutions
Until now, meeting these demands has been challenging. However, Vantage, our media processing platform, now integrates professional closed captioning and subtitling through Stanza, a cutting-edge captioning tool. This integration streamlines the captioning workflow, enhancing efficiency and convenience for Vantage and Stanza users. With just a few clicks, users can export Stanza files directly into Vantage from the Stanza interface.
Stanza: A Broadcast-Quality Captioning Tool
Stanza provides broadcast-quality captioning with state-of-the-art AI-powered speech-to-text capabilities. Its browser-based interface works across all major operating systems, allowing editors to access media files from anywhere. In addition, our custom-engineered AI models ensure exceptional quality and accuracy.
Key Benefits of the Integration
The direct connection between Vantage and Stanza offers several advantages:
- High-Quality Captions: Generate captions efficiently within your workflow, eliminating manual processes and saving time.
- AI-Driven Accuracy: Use AI technology to ensure high-quality, accurate captions and subtitles.
- Cost Savings: Avoid unpredictable costs associated with traditional transcription services.
- Efficiency and Security: Reduce delays and keep media files secure by eliminating the need to transfer files.
Accessing the Integration
Existing Vantage customers can get access to this direct integration by downloading the Vantage Update Pack from the Vantage Download Center. If you are not yet a Vantage or Stanza customer – please Contact Us and we will get a demo scheduled for you.