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  • Prime Focus Technologies debuts Clear AI Agents at IBC 2024

    Prime Focus Technologies debuts Clear AI Agents at IBC 2024

    Mumbai: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), AI-powered technology solutions, unveils CLEAR AI Agents at IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. These are designed to assist & co-work with professionals within Media & Entertainment (M&E) enterprises to execute specific tasks across content management, postproduction, and marketing. The agents seamlessly handle repetitive tasks, freeing teams to focus on strategic and creative tasks. Their round-the-clock availability and autonomous capabilities in select areas ensure timely task execution, enhancing the overall user experience. Most importantly, the agents drive scale, contributing to efficiency gains and monetisation, ultimately helping content meet revenue.

    Meet CLEAR AI Agents:

       Converse – A personal assistant that helps you engage with and utilise the content in your library to its full potential.

       Search – Use AI-powered semantic search equipped with the power of reasoning, to find contextual results quickly.

       Content Highlights – Automatic generation of highlight reels from long-form videos.

       Social – Generate social media posts and hashtag recommendations to create compelling social narratives.

       Synopsis and Thumbnails – Generate titles, thumbnails, and synopsis for clips and highlights.

       Reframe – Automatically convert horizontal videos into square and vertical formats for multiple platforms.

       Dedup – Compares assets and eliminates redundant versions, ensuring a clean and cost-effective content library.

       Localize – Translate and transcreate content into the language of choice and expand into newer markets.

       ImageGen – Generate custom images to build concept art and pre-visualizations during production.

    The CLEAR AI platform now features enhanced support for agent-driven workflows, offering a new level of integration that drives impactful results across the industry.

    The launch of AI Agents underscores the pivotal role generative AI plays in making these intelligent agents a reality,” said PFT founder & global CEO Ramki Sankaranarayanan “They are the culmination of seven years of investment in AI, combining Gen AI with the small language models reflecting our commitment to fundamentally reshape the M&E industry. These agents illustrate AI’s ability to drive significant change by enhancing productivity and driving new revenue streams. Get ready to meet your agents at IBC.”

  • Zeel embraces technology solutions to create fresh content amidst lockdown

    Zeel embraces technology solutions to create fresh content amidst lockdown

    MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zeel) has embraced and optimally utilised technology solutions amidst lockdown, in order to create and offer fresh content for its consumers.

    The company has leveraged technology and implemented various solutions across its key functions, swiftly and collaboratively, creating the bedrock for creative innovation in the content offering. The teams have enabled innovations through remote production of content over mobile and professional cameras by using video and audio production technologies to support broadcast, digital and social platforms.

    On the television front, it is ready with an array of new shows in multiple languages across its regions. To begin with, Zeel is all set to bring together the entire music industry across ten states with celebrities, music stalwarts, best of SRGMP singers and judges to deliver the SRGMP 25year – Silver Jubilee Concert for a Golden cause. This 25-hour Live Music Marathon, ‘Ek Desh Ek Raag’ will raise funds for India ‘COVID Response Fund’ by GiveIndia. As a first of its kind TV + Digital Musical initiative, the show is all set for a 25 hour Digital Live-athon on 23 May and the Mega Finale TV Concert on 24 May on Zee TV and our other leading channels. The popular SRGMP title song is being rendered in 10 languages with the contribution of musical stalwarts like Pandit Jasraj, Ronu Majumdar, Selva Ganesh, Himesh Reshammiya, Shaan, Udit Narayan and more.

    Keeping the consumer need at the fore, we will bring exciting new offerings across non-fiction with Zee Kannada launching ‘Lockdown Diaries’ and ‘Coffee with Anu’, where the former is a fun filled game-chat show with its own artists. Zee Marathi is geared up to launch three non-fiction shows, titled as Vedh Bhavishyacha – a spiritual chat show, Gharchya Ghari Home Minister – a virtual format of the popular show Home Minister and Gharat Basle Saare – a first-of-its-kind standup comedy puppet show by Ramdas Pandhye.

    Zee Marathi is also set to offer four new fiction shows shot locally in Maharashtra under the new social distancing guidelines. Zee Sarthak has been airing ‘Lockdown Challenge’, a unique non-fiction show, showcasing lives of their leading celebrities during the lockdown. Zee Sarthak is also ready with a two-hour original movie, titled as ‘Mu Tame Lockdown’ to be launched this June 2020. Both, the pieces of content have been shot at the homes of the respective celebrities using mobile phones. 

    Zee Bangla has launched three shows Priyo Tarakar Andarmanal, Abol Tabol – a comedy show and Lockdown Diaries inspired by true human stories. Completely shot on mobile, Lockdown Stories is a tribute to the human spirit of fighting through short stories that aim to portray the human bonding, family strength and positivity this time has allowed us to re-establish. Airing for 6 days, the stories are inspired by real life and includes frontline health workers, young couples, a kid trying to explore his imagination and middle-class inhabitants in a city landscape represented by renowned artists like Gaurav, Debolina, Arunodoy, Tanima Sen and more. With each story, Zee Bangla and its artists intend to take a pledge to be more respectful, more patient, more empathetic and more humane.

    &TV, spearheaded innovation through two special initiatives and brought alive the festive spirit with an interactive episode on Hanuman Jayanti, enabling viewers to sing along Hanuman Chalisa on TV. Ek Desh Ek Awaaz, was a yet another special initiative undertaken on Ambedkar Jayanti. 

  • OpenTV adds Auction and Sales modules to its multi-platform product

    OpenTV adds Auction and Sales modules to its multi-platform product

    CANNES: OpenTV Corp., which provides technology solutions for advanced digital television services, has released new Auction and Sales modules that will add support for television auctions and sales to its multi-platform OpenTV Participate product. OpenTV Participate enables viewers to participate in real-time or time-shifted competitions, votes, polls, quizzes and games, via mobile phones, web, IVR, and TV remote controls.

    The Auction and Sales modules are fully integrated with existing OpenTV Participate modules, including third party billing, fulfillment, accounts, customer care, bonus, loyalty, and marketing. Operators can now run a dedicated shopping or auction channel or individual shopping or auction events.

    As with all OpenTV Participate modules, the new Sales and Auction modules utilize wizard-based logic, enabling almost any type of sales or auction event-including the popular ‘bid up’ and ‘bid down’ auction models-to be created by non technical personnel. Support for selling content is also included, enabling broadcasters to offer pay-per-use and on-demand services such as mobile TV clips, downloads, or video streaming on any platform, states an official release.
    With these new modules, OpenTV continues to enhance OpenTV Participate’s unprecedented combination of functionality in a single, scalable system, enabling broadcasters and programmers to offer their viewers an even richer choice of interactive products and services.

    “Our vision for OpenTV Participate is to enable broadcasters to convert passive viewers into active customers by offering compelling interactive services and building a profile of their viewers’ TV habits,” said Amos Manasseh, OpenTV’s VP of Global Sales and Marketing for Participation Television. “These new modules further advance this vision as well as OpenTV Participate’s unique position in the market place, benefiting both broadcasters and advertisers alike.”

    OpenTV will be demonstrating OpenTV Participate at the upcoming MipTV/MILLA, NAB, and NCTA conferences, the release adds.