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Sohonet Acquires 5th Kind

Media collaboration tech specialist Sohonet has acquired 5th Kind, a leading cloud-based video collaboration platform for the film and TV production industry. Terms of the deal wer... More

M&E Journal: Transformation in Media Amid a Challenging Inflationary and Recessionary Environment

When Netflix introduced streaming video subscriptions (SVOD) 15 years ago, there were only a few competitors, primarily Hulu and Amazon. In the 15 years since, this segment of t... More

Wasabi Explains How to Future-Proof and Utilize Your Media Archives

For modern media organizations, the best archive solution is one that balances affordability with accessibility, according to Wasabi. On-premise storage is too precious to waste... More

M&E Journal: Three Reasons a Multi-Cloud Approach Is a Must

In today’s fast-paced, high-stakes world, productions can’t afford to lose any raw footage, rough cuts or finished material before the final product is in the can. However,... More

M&E Journal: May You Live in Interesting Times

Although the origin of this saying “may you live in interesting times” is debatable, this very overused phrase accurately describes our current climate. This phrase is very... More

Wasabi Reviews Key Findings From Its 2023 Cloud Storage Index

Industrywide cloud storage data was lacking, so Wasabi decided to research the subject with Vanson Bourne, which conducted a survey for Wasabi last year, Drew Schlussel, Wasabi sen... More

M&E Journal: How Far Has Synthetic Speech Come?

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

Fortinet Takes a ‘Deep Dive Into the Global Threat Landscape’

Fortinet shared cyber threat activities that its experts saw in the back half of 2022 and made predictions for what they expect in 2023 during the Feb. 22 webinar “A Deep Dive in... More

MESA Mourns Loss of Longtime Executive Assistant Don Hurley

The MESA family is mourning the loss of Donald J. Hurley, who passed away suddenly on Feb. 16 at his home in Boise, Idaho. (more…)... More

Industry Vet Scott Rose to Keynote ITS Localisation

Scott Rose, the former CTO of Iyuno-SDI and SDI Media, has been announced as the opening keynote presenter for the 28 February Innovation and Transformation Summit (ITS): Localisat... More

M&E Journal: Two Key Trends That Will Shape the Future of Your Security Team

According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, compromised web applications were the primary attack vector of 2021, accounting for roughly 70 percent of security ... More

Visual Data Implements OOONA’s Integrated Solution

Localization services and end-to-end digital media supply chain solutions firm Visual Data has announced it will adopt the integrated platform of professional management and produc... More

EIDR to Talk Localization at Feb. 28 London Event

MESA’s annual Content Workflow Management Forum has re-branded to the Innovation and Transformation Summit (ITS): Localisation, and EIDR is among those sponsoring the premiere ev... More

M&E Journal: The Localization Flash Mob

The process of localizing content for distribution internationally has charmingly been described as spaghetti-like. I prefer to think of it as a flash mob. Do you remember flash... More

M&E Journal: Video Localization Tools: The Online Era

Video localization technology first came about decades ago with the introduction of affordable desktop computers. These allowed a single person to carry out the entire subtitling p... More

M&E Journal: From Chaos Comes Community

No one could have predicted how this decade has unfolded. And we aren’t even a quarter of the way there. At the beginning of 2020 I was excited for the MESA Europe community to j... More

OTOY Debuts Octane X App for M1, M2 iPads, Bringing State-of-the-Art Cinematic GPU Path-Tracing to Mobile Workflows

Following the release of Octane X for macOS, OTOY has publicly unveiled Octane X for M1 and M2 iPads (iPad Pro and the M1 iPad Air), bringing the world’s first and fastest unbias... More

InvenioLSI, SAP Tout Solution to Tighter Control on Production Spend, Budgets

InvenioLSI Content Financials provides a solution for media and entertainment (M&E) companies looking to achieve stringer control of their production spending, InvenioLSI and SAP e... More

British HITS: An Industry Analyst’s Take on Virtual Production

Before the pandemic, the term virtual production was little discussed let alone implemented but, fast forward two years, and the world is a very different place now. If nothing ... More

Adobe Debuts Camera to Cloud Beta For RED

During Adobe MAX in October the company announced new integration with RED V-RAPTOR and V-RAPTOR XL cameras which unlocks the ability to get 8K REDCODE RAW files directly from the ... More

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