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

Introduction to Recently, corporate representatives in Tokyo and Beijing, China, used the virtual studio and real-time subtitles of the Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud "Cloud Director" to conduct immersive live broadcast connections to start business exchanges and smoothly Completed 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 digitization." At the Olympic Village site, representatives of the Alibaba Cloud International Sports Division in Tokyo have used the virtual studio and real-time subtitles of the Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud Director product to successively cooperate with partners in Malaysia, the United States, China and other places. The live broadcast connection and cloud signing ceremony were successfully completed.

Virtual studio, creating an immersive live broadcast experience

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

Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud is the first cloud vendor in the industry to provide virtual studio capabilities. As the key capability of the cloud director, the virtual studio uses the real-time automatic keying technology of in-depth algorithms, supports multiple devices and multiple cameras, and 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 subtitles capability. This capability combines voice recognition technology to support four languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, and Russian. The bilingual subtitles can be displayed in real-time scrolling to meet the needs of users from multiple countries and regions to watch live broadcasts at the same time. 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 captioning capabilities, Cloud Director also supports multi-camera live broadcast, which can integrate and switch multiple streams 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 Guide can also quickly build a carousel, aggregate multiple live and video programs, create a carousel-type live room, enrich live scenes and content forms, flexibly call, easily configure, and efficiently coordinate business scenarios.

At the same time, the online production and real-time packaging capabilities of Cloud Director also support the integration of live broadcast materials, on-demand materials, pictures, text, dynamic H5 component materials, and AI capabilities, such as: support for live broadcast and host, commentary screen live broadcast, side-by-side Interpretation side event live broadcast; support H5 page dynamic components to connect with live broadcast business data, build 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, video AI capabilities are also indispensable for the empowerment of directors on the cloud, and have been well practiced and verified in many activities. Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud's cloud directing and video intelligent production are integrated, which can disassemble, edit, and direct the live broadcast 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 to achieve, but 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 an integrated cloud-based broadcast.

With its rich program production methods and lower costs, Cloud Director can be widely used in radio and television new media, event live broadcasts, event live broadcasts, commercial live broadcasts and other scenarios to help customers break business bottlenecks and conduct business faster and better. In the context of the epidemic, Cloud Guide has highlighted its advantages, surmounts the barriers of space, easily realizes the broadcast of remote programs, and facilitates the transformation of various events from offline to online, multi-experience and multi-form enrichment.

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, constantly innovate industry application scenarios, and create new value space for customers.

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