Forzify™ is a complete live and on-demand video management
system supporting OTT streaming. It is a cross-platform solution with backend servers, like
database systems for metadata, webservers and search engines,
running either in the cloud or on in-house machines. In addition to traditional streaming
and video delivery, Forzify can be used as an searchable archive and enables the users to
in a social experience. Thus, search for your favourite
happenings and let the system
recommend the most played and "liked" events - in the
order you want.
Forzify comes with iOS and Android apps. Here, you
have the same functionality as described above, and social sharing is only a click
away. The app also supports video recording of short videos to be used and combined with
all other types of contents (e.g., supporters may record themselves in the stadium and
share with friends).
Forzify allows teams, clubs and leagues to make content
available through video-embedding in webpages and blogs, also provides video widgets changing
content in regular time intervals. Underlying searches can also be used in various
statistics, like top scorer pages, player profile pages, league tables, etc., and present video for the counted events.
Forzify also solves the problem of leaking content. It
allows you to share data on social media without loosing control (and revenue). You
control your own distribution pipeline, but keep the same customer reach. In other words,
you can count your own number of views. Thus, use Forzify to make your own enterprise
YouTube or video Spotify.
Forzify tagging supports that users create events by tagging directly on the
video stream. Forzify tagging also comes with an own professional tagging interface
where a user can follow multiple concurrent streams, e.g., a media center or broadcasting
company can make events and highlights directly with a single push of a button. The tagged
event immediately becomes a searchable video clip where the event is extracted on the fly
from the OTT segments. The current tagging interface is developed in collaboration with
NTF, and the video below shows the system in use by SEF for Allsvenskan and Superettan.
As can be observed in the above video, the tagging operation can be performed in two
stages or levels. At the first level, one person can monitor one or four simultaneous
games, where he has buttons for each team, and an event it generated pressing the event
type for a team (and optionally player) and press publish. The system then automatically
generated a clip which is immediately published. Then, a second level operator will
fine-tune the events with additional metadata, exact timestamps and quality assurance. By
dividing this into two steps, we allow the first operator to focus on multiple matches in
parallel, while at the same time ensuring high levels of details in the final event
without errors. The second level operator can also perform rudimentary editing of the
resulting video clip, by adjusting clip start/stop, custom description and a relevant
thumbnail.
To further save manual labour and reduce time to publish an event, we may add AI-based operations for detection and clipping of events, and automated selection of thumbnails. These components will further reduce the manual labour and the time to produce events and highlights.
Forzify can receive a live stream from broadcasters. However, Forzify also supports live streams from network connected cameras or from mobile apps, using Forzify as backend with the same possibilities to stream and share
video events. More or less any device that streams RTMP would work, where Forzify can receive the video in the cloud, encode into approproate formats, and stream live to all supported devices.
For example, apps using iOS or Android phones' internal camera functionality can be connected to our cloud-based server allowing (instant) live streams from interviews, locker-room sit-raps, press conferences, fan-clips, etc. Furthermore, fixed mounted cameras covering the field for camera man-free productions where cameras can be scheduled for recordings. Such fixed cameras can also be connected to our soccer analytics application for immediate video feedback during a training session or a game.
The "inserted content" package of Forzify provides a type of advertisement service where content, be it ads or other content, can be inserted into the video stream on a OTT segment granularity. It is meant as a plug-in to Forzify, and the service targets personalized advertisements where in-lined video advertisements can be combined wherever required in the video content being distributed. This next generation advertisement service builds on advanced backend analytics and customizes advertisements to individual user preferences. This happens fully transparent, in real-time, and can be customized down to the individual users preferences.
Send us a notice and describe what you need, and then we can see how we can set up a pipeline
meeting your needs and requirements!
