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Show Daily | Tuesday 26 June 2018

Zoo Digital Extends Cloud-Powered
Localisation Services for APAC

identify suitable in-territory traditional and
alternative recording environments - all to
offer greater choice to content owners.
ZOO also welcomes on board Norie Negishi,
Head of Asia Operations and Business
ZOO Digital is a world-leading provider of localisation and digital distribution
Development. Norie is joining ZOO to help
services for the biggest names in the TV and movie business...
grow capacity as the company expands its
t booth 6K3-02, ZOO is launching cloud
cloud dubbing services in key
Cloud dubbing works like an
subtitling and dubbing services for Asia
territories in Asia and Asia Pacific.
online recording studio and ZOO
Pacific and emerging markets, including Korea,
She joins ZOO with a 20-year
is using it to record in-territory,
Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Pakistan and
track record with the Walt Disney
in key dubbing languages with a
UAE.
Company in Asia Pacific including
number of advantages for content
As a first for the entertainment industry, the
working as Executive Director of
owners.
team is demonstrating how cloud dubbing
Operations for Disney Character
It gives dubbing directors and
is changing the game for TV and movie
Voices International.
voice talent the flexibility to work
localisation.
The appointment builds on
remotely from anywhere in the
recent strategic growth of ZOO's
world for casting and recording.
cloud dubbing services. The
Free from the constraints of studio
role will involve working with
locations, this opens up a far
(L-R) ZOO President, Gordon Doran with Kantana CEO, Surachedh Assawaruenganun dubbing directors, voice artists
wider pool of dubbing talent.
and potential partners to help ZOO's clients
It also gives content owners the flexibility
expanding in Thailand and Vietnam. ZOO has
access more talent and reach new audiences
to choose where they want their dubbing
built on its partnership with one of Thailand's
around the world.
projects to be recorded.
oldest and largest film studios to help grow its
Gordon Doran, President, ZOO Digital, said:
Furthermore, it has made it financially viable
cloud dubbing service.
"It is our priority to build our capacity and
to dub a wider variety of TV content including
The production company has been trained in
reach for content owners in Asia Pacific. The
factual, drama and unscripted content. For
ZOO's cutting-edge software and is currently
territory offers an excellent opportunity to
content owners, this opens up new revenue
using it to work on a number of in-territory
access a range of voice talent and original
streams.
dubbing projects.
content."
In addition to the above, ZOO Digital's twoKantana is helping ZOO to build capacity,
Norie Negishi, Head of Asia Operations
www.zoodigital.com
year-long partnership with Kantana Group is
increase the local dubbing talent pool and
and Business Development, ZOO Digital

AWS Features Solutions for Smarter,
Faster, and More Efficient Video
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, is demonstrating new video
processing and delivery technologies on stand 4D2-01...

he latest innovations from AWS are
intended to give media and entertainment
companies, enterprises, start-ups, and
government agencies the ability to deliver
video faster and more efficiently, build
intelligent video applications enhanced by
machine learning, and extend the reach of
their video content," said Andrew Thornton,
General Manager - APAC for AWS Elemental.
AWS is showcasing solutions designed
to advance the quality of streaming video,
while at the same time reducing the network
bandwidth and storage capacity required to
deliver outstanding viewing experiences.
Demonstrations include Quality-Defined
Variable Bitrate Control. QVBR is a video
compression technique that automatically
adjusts to the complexity of source content,
maintaining
high-quality
video
while
reducing storage and distribution costs.
In this demonstration, an AWS Elemental
Live encoder processes HD inputs for live

streaming while adapting in real time to meet
user-specified requirements for video quality.
CMAF for OTT Distribution - Support
for the Common Media Application Format
(CMAF) lets customers realise video quality
improvements,
increase
compression
efficiency, and benefit from simplification of
content creation and storage. Demonstrations
incorporate live video processing, onpremises and in the cloud, using AWS
Elemental Delta and AWS Elemental
MediaPackage to generate CMAF-compatible
fMP4 HLS outputs.
Machine learning services from AWS help
video providers enhance workflows with
automated capabilities that improve viewer
engagement, increase the efficiency of timeintensive workloads, and unlock additional
revenues.
Demonstrations include Server-Side
Advertising Insertion. AWS Elemental
MediaTailor lets video providers insert

individually targeted advertising into their
video streams without sacrificing broadcastlevel quality of service. With AWS Elemental
MediaTailor, viewers of your live or ondemand video each receive a stream that
combines your content with ads personalised
to them.
Automated Metadata Extraction and
Analysis - Cloud-based approaches to

unlocking the value of content libraries
integrates machine learning and analytics
services to automatically extract metadata
from live or on-demand video streams with
a combination of Amazon Transcribe, AWS
Elemental MediaConvert, AWS Elemental
MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage,
Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Kinesis
Video Streams;
Automated Transcription and Translation
- Machine learning tools, including Amazon
Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and AWS
Lambda, along with AWS Elemental
MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaPackage,
and Amazon CloudFront video services,
comprise an intelligent workflow that
performs automated speech transcription
from video clips and translation of those clips
into multiple languages.
www.elemental.com
Andrew Thornton,
General Manager - APAC

http://www.zoodigital.com http://www.Amazon.com http://www.elemental.com

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