Digital Nirvana is debuting an all-in-one automated sports clipping service for broadcasters that analyzes sports broadcasts in real-time and makes ready-to-publish clips of game highlights. The service can also make images and GIFs that are ready to be published to a website or shared on social media.
The service comes with automated caption synchronization, enabling users to publish sports media content without time lag while at the same time complying with new FCC regulations. Automatic closed captioning allows viewers on social media to consume video content without audio turned on, helping those who are deaf or have hearing loss and those in public places where it is difficult to hear.
Beginning July 1, the FCC will require that for video clips of live and near-live TV programming such as sporting events, the internet video clips must be captioned if the TV programming has captions. For live programming, there can be up to a 12-hour delay to posting a clip with captioning. For near-live, an eight-hour delay is permitted.
“Our new sports clippings service make it easy for sports broadcasters and content creators to quickly publish content to their website and social media, and it also improves the ways that broadcasters can make high quality video accessible for audience consumption from anywhere, at anytime,” Hiren Hindocha, President and CEO of Digital Nirvana, said in a statement.
“With our new automated sports clipping service, we’re aiming to make it easy for sports broadcasters to generate clips to share with its audiences, while at the same time being in compliance with all FCC regulations.”
With the service offering automated clipping with metadata and caption synchronization simultaneously and an option for manually cleaning up text, broadcasters could become more efficient and find the process simplified.
Digital Nirvana’s system will debut in Las Vegas during NAB Show on April 24-27.
