Media Cloud Fundamentals

Tomasz Witkowski, Richard Welsh

This paper aims to provide an overview to the reader of the current state of cloud use in the media industry, the adoption in specific areas, and the challenges facing current workflows. It further discusses specific areas that will provide major shifts in cloud use and have a significant impact on the media industry. The flow of use across all stages of production, live broadcast, mastering, versioning, distribution, and analytics is covered. This paper assumes a basic understanding and familiarity with the principles of industrial/enterprise cloud, software defined resources (SDx) and content delivery networks (CDN).

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2019-10
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
Analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud, content delivery network, distribution, live broadcast, mastering, media life cycle, packaged media, post production, pre-production, production, versioning, workflow
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2019.2933757