Modern media production requires shorter cycle times, and Artificial Intelligence to personalise content and to add interactive layers on top of the video. Producers worldwide use Limecraft Flow to streamline their production workflow and to automate clerical tasks like ingesting, transcription and logging, and subtitling. Presented at MediaMatters 2018 (mediamatters.vc).

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Limecraft – Online Collaborative Video Production of High-end Content
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Limecraft Approach
• Artificial Intelligence replaces clerical Work
• Use online sharing instead of file transfers
• Maximise creativity through radical production automation
000. | State of the Art
State of the Art
• 1-4TB of storage per shooting day
• Unstructured information
• Limited collaboration potential
Traditional methods don’t scale
• Manual transcription and “annotation”
• Excessive file transfer
• Redundant work

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Limecraft for Television Series
Limecraft Flow is a cloud-based
platform for Collaborative Video
Production
Limecraft Flow
• Automated ingest
• Automatic transcription and logging
• Computer assisted editing
• Subtitling
Benefits
• Faster access to “dailies”
• Online sharing of cuts and masters
• Seamless publication

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Use Case (1) – TV series
Conventional Process
• 80 shooting days/€30.000 per day
• 200 hours of material/10.000 shots
• 1 to 2 edit suits for “offline edit”
• Cost €100.000 (Annual)
• Dailies available 1-2 weeks after shoot
Solution
• Automates the material handling (“Ingest”)
Business Case
• 80% saving on the offline edit budget
• Material available for review next day

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Use Case (2) – Transcription
Limecraft automatically turns audio
into timed text:
• Automated Transcription
• Efficient search and retrieval
• Pre-cut the story by selecting quotes
Business Case
• Reduces clerical work by 90%
• Maximise re-use of material

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002. Subtitling
Objective
• Shorter cycle time
• Significant cost reduction
Feedback
• “I never even read the instructions. So I just went straight in and it was easy to figure out what I needed to do.”
• “It was super easy for me to tweak the words, the timings, placement,…”
• “Small things, which could be easily overlooked, like when I tweaked some words then hit play, the video automatically skips
back a couple of seconds so I hear and see what I did, without having to scroll back myself – genius.”
• “Having he warnings pop up when my subtitle chunks were too long is a really nice learning tool, and saves me having to
manually check.”
Challenge
• Fully automated subtitles, according to
BBC styling rules
Solution
• Full-featured subtitle editor

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Youtube - Limecraft University
Converts and exports to Youtube
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Converts and exports to Facebook
Audio Post Production - Protools
Creates an AAF file which can be imported in Avid Protools

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000. About Limecraft - Executive Summary
Intelligent “Media Asset Management” solutions
• Cloud-based - designed for co-production
• Artificial Intelligence - automatically adds metadata
• Automated Publication – export to OTT distribution and social media
Used for
• Reduced clerical work : avoid human errors and cut the production cost
• Automation : Shorter turn-around cycle
• Enables Creation of personalised and interactive content
About Limecraft
• About Limecraft Flow (http://www.limecraft.com)
• http://facebook.com/Limecraft.Connected
• Or just give it a try: https://platform.limecraft.com/#auth/signup