The director went to the cloud and moved the "virtual studio" to the Olympic Village

Recently, business representatives in Tokyo and Beijing, China, used the virtual studio and real-time subtitles of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud "Cloud Director" to conduct immersive live broadcast connections, start business exchanges, and successfully complete the cloud signing ceremony .

The 32nd Olympic Games ended in Tokyo last week. As Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, said: "This is the Olympic Games with the highest level of digitalization" , this Olympic Games is not only the first Olympic Games to be broadcast on the cloud, but also many innovations in other technologies. Cloud International Sports Division in Tokyo have used the 1611dd044d7ee4 virtual studio, real-time subtitles and other capabilities of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud Director’s products to gradually interact with people in Malaysia, the United States, China and other places. The partners successfully completed the live broadcast connection and cloud signing ceremony.

Virtual studio, creating an immersive live broadcast experience

Cloud Direct is relying on Alibaba Cloud's powerful live video and media processing services to innovate the effect of directing, reengineering traditional video production tools in the cloud, and integrated production to create an immersive live broadcast experience.

Cloud Video Cloud is the cloud vendor in the industry to provide 1611dd044d7f3b with the virtual studio capability. As the key capability of the cloud director, the virtual studio uses the real-time automatic keying technology of the deep algorithm, supports multiple devices and multiple cameras, even if the two parties are in different places, they can appear to be in the same space and present an immersive style. Live broadcast experience.

Based on the advanced real-time keying rendering technology, the virtual studio can perform keying processing on the real-time live stream, and combine specific background images and multimedia booths to synthesize a unified live stream output. It supports multiple devices, multi-cameras, and remote broadcasting, and can realize dual-screen, split-screen, picture-in-picture and other broadcasting scenes. In addition, the live broadcast background can be changed according to the specific scene, which is as close to the live broadcast demand as possible to help customers create the scene An immersive live broadcast experience.

The cloud contract also uses the real-time subtitle capability , which combines voice recognition technology to support four languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, and Russian, and displays bilingual subtitles in real-time scrolling to meet the needs of users from multiple countries and regions to watch live broadcasts at the same time. Make live broadcast simpler, professional and international.

Integrate multiple capabilities to realize the integration of production on the cloud

In addition to the virtual studio and real-time subtitle capabilities, cloud director also supports multi-camera live , which can integrate multiple streams and switch playback for multiple cameras at the event site. Different camera streams are played synchronously at the video frame level, allowing users to have multiple viewing angles without missing any excitement.

Cloud also directed quickly build carousel station , aggregate multiple live video programs, create the type of carousel station studio, live scenes and rich content forms, call flexible, easy configuration and efficient collaborative business scenarios landing.

At the same time, 's 1611dd044d802e online production and real-time packaging capabilities also support the integration of live material, on-demand material, pictures, text, dynamic H5 component material, and AI capabilities, such as: support for live broadcast and host, commentary screen live broadcast , Live the game while commenting; support H5 page dynamic components and live broadcast business data to open up, build a score system, equipment system, event peripheral data system, etc. This capability reconstructs the video content production link, and uses multi-dimensional data information to enhance the richness of content, expand traffic exposure and realize the value of advertising.

In addition, the video AI capability is also indispensable for the empowerment of the director on the cloud, and has been well practiced and verified in many activities. Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud's cloud guide and video intelligent production are integrated, which can disassemble, edit, and guide live broadcasts in real time, and automatically generate a collection of characters based on the live content. It can also use AI capabilities to identify speakers and dynamically display character information.

For example, in the cloud surfing experience project of the Yunqi Games, the live stream is quickly recorded into small file slices through the real-time slicing of the guide stream, combined with video AI to generate a wonderful collection of wonderful shots in the surfing screen, and then mixed with the live stream to broadcast.

Low-cost access, widely used in new scenarios

By reengineering traditional video production tools in the cloud, Cloud Director greatly saves hardware procurement costs. In the past, traditional broadcast director scenes usually required expensive broadcast director vehicles. Now, relying on cloud director, director operators only need a computer to complete several professional live broadcasts remotely at the same time.

CloudBroadcast provides three types of services: console, API, and Web SDK, which users can access on demand, which is convenient for secondary development or direct use. At the same time, it supports live broadcast and on-demand video sources, as well as multiple content sources such as pictures, documents, and pages, and up to 6 video sources are mixed in real time. For cloud service capabilities, it saves software and hardware procurement costs, uses on-demand and pays for volume, and helps enterprises build integrated cloud-based broadcasts.

With its rich program production methods and lower cost, Cloud Director can widely apply to broadcast new media, event live broadcasts, event live broadcasts, commercial live broadcasts and other scenarios to help customers break business bottlenecks and develop businesses faster and better. In the context of the epidemic, Cloud Director has highlighted its advantages and overcomes space barriers to easily realize off-site programs, and help various events from offline to online, with multiple experiences and .

Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud is based on the live broadcast business verification of various top events and major events such as the World Cup, Double Eleven Carnival, CCTV Spring Festival Gala, League of Legends S10, etc., accumulating profound experience in live broadcast of events and events, with a flexible and easy-to-use professional cloud Production and broadcasting capabilities, low-cost and high-efficiency value, and stable and reliable in-depth guarantees, continuously innovate industry application scenarios, and create new value space for customers.

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