Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services to build applications to encode, protect, analyze and deliver video at scale. This week, at the Build 2018 conference in Seattle, I was happy to announce a major new API version for Azure Media Services, along with new developer focused features, and updates to Video Indexer. Media processing at scale: Public preview of the new Azure Media Services API (v3) Starting at Build 2018, developers can begin working with … Read More
Azure Premium Encoder Workflow Designer Training Videos
Back in April at the NAB Show we launched the Azure Premium Encoder. I wrote a post on this new encoder after we launched with some of the high level details about it’s capabilities. One of the key differentiators of this new Encoder is the Workflow Designer tool that we offer for you to use freely when building your workflows for the new Premium Encoder. This tool is really amazing and has tons of features to build out complex “blueprints” … Read More
Hyperlapse for Azure Media Services
Why am I showing you the Tower Bridge? Well, it is a cool bridge… but it’s mostly because I’m in London working with customers this week and it will make a lot more sense in a few moments when you read down to my “demo” of Hyperlapse for Azure Media Services. A few weeks back at the NAB show I was discussing with a few friends the new trend of giant nets surrounding a number of exhibitor booths. This seemed like … Read More
Live Encoding Preview
Today at NAB 2015, the Media Services team announced live encoding in the cloud is now available in Preview. With this new feature you can finally enable live transcoding in you Media Services live channels, allowing you to send in a single high bitrate stream instead of multi-bitrate encodings. This release also brings the following key capabilities to your live channels in the cloud: Live encoding of a single bitrate live feed into an adaptive bitrate stream Ability to ingest a … Read More
Introducing Azure Premium Encoder
A few weeks back we introduced a new encoder to Azure Media Services called Azure Media Encoder Premium. This new encoder complements our existing encoding services by offering more advanced features for the media and entertainment industry. This new encoder allows you to build out more professional cloud encoding workflows on our platform with support for more file formats and a new visual workflow designer tool. I’m really excited about the capabilities of the new Workflow Designer which allows you to graphically … Read More