Streambox Announces New Products for AWS Media
Streambox, a leader in remote workflows for Post Production and Live Content Streaming & Contribution, has announced support for Epic Games Unreal Engine and two new products for AWS Media solutions.
Bellevue, WAS(20 Feb 2023)
Streambox is proud to announce support for Epic Games' Unreal Engine! Our Spectra & Spectra VM encoders now integrate with Unreal Engine's via Epic's API to enable a broad range of extended capabilities, including a flexible means for conducting remote collaboration sessions over IP for both Unreal Engine desktop and AWS cloud deployments. For Unreal Engine on AWS, Spectra VM also provides a reference quality feed from Unreal Engine back to the creative person, with ultra-low latency, at up to 4K DCI HDR 4:4:4 12-bit. Spectra VM also supports Unreal Engine nDisplay at various stages of preproduction - we will soon be providing additional details on several different workflows for Virtual Production
Alex Telitsine, Streambox CTO, notes: “There has been notable new activity in professional media production workflows to the cloud, thanks to the capabilities of AWS Media Solutions. Our new products are designed to address practical considerations for providing a user experience that is as close as you can get to On Prem activities, including high quality, low latency reference feeds from the cloud back to the creative, the ability to conduct collaborative sessions with remote clients, and providing a bridge between creative apps and AWS CDI”.
Spectra VM now provides a bridge between cloud-deployed creative apps, such as BlackMagic DaVinci, Adobe Premier & AfterEffects, Unreal Engine, etc., and AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI), a network technology that transports high-quality, uncompressed video within the AWS Cloud, with high reliability and network latency as low as 8 milliseconds.
This new development enables popular creative apps to take advantage of CDI-based signal distribution without the need for native CDI support and opens a number of opportunities to build live video workflows with select AWS Media Services, products from AWS Partners, and offerings from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Amongst other things, connecting creative apps to CDI means they can take advantage of AWS Media Connect to deliver streams in JPEG-XS and H265 formats. It also supports "air-gapped" workflows, where applications are deployed on different AWS zones.
In addition to creating a bridge to CDI, SpectraVM provides two additional outputs: a full resolution, reference-quality feed back to the creative's desktop with latency as low as 70ms and a secondary feed that can be used to conduct multi-point collaborative sessions over IP.
Streambox will be hosting two Roundtables at the HPA Tech Retreat 2023: Tuesday (#28) - Remote post production workflows; Thursday (#12) - AWS cloud-based post production, both of which will be conducted by Alex Telitsine, Streambox CTO.
About Streambox
Streambox is the leading provider of high-performance streaming media encoders and decoders, with more than 20 years of continuous innovation reflected in our current offerings. The Streambox product line offers a wide choice of form factors, performance levels and flexible deployment models so you are ensured a solution that suits your needs, whether On Prem or in the Cloud. Our Emmy Award-winning technology provides the most reliable, lowest latency streaming capabilities over any IP network, and delivers a review quality signal up to 4K DCI, 4:4:4 12-bit, with 16 channels of audio. Streambox continues to innovate and has recently introduced cloud-based solutions for AWS Media applications, which are compatible with all the most popular authoring platforms, including Adobe, Avid, DaVinci, Autodesk Flame, Unreal Engine and more. Visit our website to learn more about why we are the trusted streaming solution for the world’s leading media companies, including Netflix, CNN, Disney, Warner Media and more!