Recently, corporate representatives in Tokyo and Beijing, China, used the virtual studio and real-time subtitles of Alibaba Cloud video cloud “cloud Guidance Station” to conduct immersive live streaming, conduct business communication and successfully complete the cloud signing ceremony.
The 32nd Olympic Games concluded last week in Tokyo. As Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has said, “This is the most digital Olympics ever.” Not only were the games the first to be broadcast on the cloud, but there were a number of innovations in other technologies. In the Olympic Village, the representative of Ali Cloud International Sports Business Department in Tokyo successfully completed the live streaming connection and cloud signing ceremony with partners in Malaysia, the United States, China and other places through the virtual studio and real-time subtitles of ali Cloud video broadcasting station products.
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Virtual studio to create an immersive live experience
Cloud directing relies on ali Cloud’s powerful live video and media processing services to innovate the effect of directing, recreate the traditional video production tools in the cloud, and create an immersive live broadcast experience through integrated production.
Aliyun Video Cloud is the first cloud manufacturer in the industry to provide virtual studio capabilities. As the key capability of cloud broadcasting, virtual studio uses real-time automatic image keating technology of depth algorithm to support a variety of devices and multiple stations. Even if the two parties are in different places, they can also appear to be in the same space and present an immersive live broadcasting experience.
Based on the advanced real-time keying rendering technology, the virtual studio can keying the real-time live stream, and combine the specific background image and multimedia booth to synthesize the unified live stream output. It supports a variety of devices, multi-station, and remote broadcasting, and can realize the broadcasting scenes such as dual-screen, split screen, and picture-in-picture. In addition, the background of live broadcasting can be changed according to the specific scene, which is close to the demand of live broadcasting to the maximum extent, and helps customers to create scene-oriented immersive live broadcasting experience.
This cloud signing also uses real-time subtitle capability, which, combined with voice recognition technology, supports four languages, Chinese, English, Spanish and Russian, and real-time rolling display of bilingual subtitle, meeting the needs of users in many countries and regions to watch the live broadcast at the same time, making the live broadcast more simple, professional and international.
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Integrate multiple capabilities to realize the integration of production on the cloud
In addition to the virtual studio and real-time captioning capabilities, cloud guidance also supports multi-station live broadcasting, which can be used for multi-channel streaming fusion and switching playback for multiple stations at the event site. Different channels through the video frame level synchronization playback, users can have multiple viewing angles, not missing any wonderful.
Cloud guidance can also quickly set up a rota station, aggregate a number of live and video programs, create a rota station type broadcast room, enrich the live scene and content form, flexibly call, easily configure, and effectively coordinate the landing of business scenarios.
At the same time, the online production and real-time packaging capabilities of cloud guided broadcasting also support the integration of live broadcast materials, on-demand materials, pictures, text, dynamic H5 component materials and AI capabilities. For example, live broadcast of live broadcast images, anchors and commentary images can be supported in camera, and live broadcast of games can be broadcast while commentary. Support H5 page dynamic components to connect with live broadcast business data, build score system, equipment system, event peripheral data system, etc. The ability to reconstruct video content production links to multi-dimensional data information, enhance content richness, expand traffic exposure, and monetize advertising value.
In addition, video AI capabilities are essential for enabling the cloud on the director and have been well practiced and validated in numerous activities. The cloud guide of Ali Cloud video cloud is integrated with intelligent video production. It can strip, clip and guide the live broadcast in real time and automatically generate character collection according to the live broadcast content. It can also identify speakers and dynamically display character information through AI capability.
For example, in the cloud surfing experience project of the Cloud Games, the live stream was quickly collected into small file slices through the real-time slice of the guide stream, and the wonderful collection was generated by combining the video AI with the wonderful shots in the surf screen, which was then mixed with the live stream for broadcast.
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Low cost access, widely used in new scenarios
By reengineering traditional video production tools in the cloud, cloud director greatly saves the cost of hardware procurement. In the past, traditional broadcast scenes usually need expensive broadcast vehicles to achieve, but now, relying on cloud broadcast, broadcast operators only need a computer to remotely complete several professional broadcast at the same time.
Cloud guidance provides three types of services, console, API and Web SDK, which can be accessed by users on demand for secondary development or direct use. At the same time, support live, on-demand video sources, and pictures, documents, pages and other content sources, up to 6 video sources real-time mixing. As for cloud services, it saves the cost of hardware and software procurement, uses on-demand and pays by volume, and helps enterprises build integrated cloud guided broadcasting.
With rich program production forms and lower costs, cloud guided broadcasting can be widely used in new media of radio and television, event live broadcasting, activity live broadcasting, commercial live broadcasting and other scenarios, helping customers to break business bottlenecks and carry out business faster and better. In the context of the epidemic, cloud guided broadcasting highlights its advantages. It can overcome the obstacles of space, easily realize the transmission of programs in different places, and help all kinds of events to be carried out online from offline to online, with multiple experiences and diversified forms.
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