Using Limecraft Flow for automatic Subtitling and Localisation of Content
Download as PPTX, PDF0 likes212 views
Limecraft Flow is an online platform designed to automate media production workflows, focusing on transcription, subtitling, and localization, which significantly reduces costs (up to 80%). It offers features such as automatic machine transcription, subtitling, and localized subtitle creation that enhance collaboration in video production while improving efficiency. The platform aims to address traditional methods' limitations and leverage artificial intelligence to streamline processes.
Using Limecraft Flow for automatic Subtitling and Localisation of Content
- 1. © LIMECRAFT connected creativity Using Limecraft Flow for Automatic Subtitling and Localisation Presented at EuroCinema in Barcelona, June 18th 2019
- 2. LIMECRAFT connected creativity 000. About Limecraft Limecraft • Incorporated May 2010 • High-end Television and Film Production • Customers : producers, post facilities and broadcasters Industrialising media production • Online platform for maximum collaboration • Workflow control • Automation of manual work (auto-tagging, logging, auto-cut, subtitling) Business Case for Subtitling • Reducing 75% of the cost • Reduce the turn around time to minutes • Adding different versions at marginal cost Stay updated • www.limecraft.com • facebook.com/Limecraft.connected • twitter.com/limecraft
- 3. LIMECRAFT connected creativity Copyright 2016 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission 000. | About Limecraft • Solution overview • Use Case - Transcription • Use Case: automatically turns audio into timed text • Key feature: speech to text technology • Business Case: cuts 75% of the cost • Use Case - Subtitling • Use Case: same-language captioning for accessibility • Key feature: machine transcription and automatic spotting • Business Case: cuts 75% of the cost • Use Case - Localisation • Use Case: created translated subtitles • Key feature: machine translation and automatic timing template application • Business Case: cuts 80% of the cost Agenda
- 4. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission 001. Solution Overview
- 5. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission LIMECRAFT connected creativity 001. | State of the Art State of the Art • Manual transcription and “annotation” • Unstructured ”meta” information • Limited collaboration potential Traditional methods don’t scale • Increasing volumes of raw material • Increasing post-production cost • Several output versions versions
- 6. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission © LIMECRAFT connected creativity How Limecraft Flow addresses today’s Production Challenges Post-Production MasteringProduction Conventional video production involves a lot of manual work, copy-and-paste, excessive file transfers. This is hard to scale. Due to digitization, there’s a trend • to process more material on the input side, • to create more versions on the output side Limecraft Flow : workflows to automate manual work and increase productivity Dailies: process more material in less time Output: create different versions at marginal cost MASTERINGCOST OUTPUT VERSIONS PRODUCTIONCOST RAW MATERIAL conventional conventional Limecraft Limecraft
- 7. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission © LIMECRAFT connected creativity Limecraft “Edge” – Ingest • Backup one or more copies • Captures all the metadata • QC • Encoding of proxies • Transfer to flow and deep archive Key benefits • Secure your material in minutes • A single tool for proxies creation and transfer material • Overall control over the different versions and the master data 001. Solution Overview - Ingest
- 8. © LIMECRAFT connected creativity Using Limecraft Flow, shots are automatically cut into scenes. Limecraft Flow • Integration with pre-production • Cut in lo-res, conform in 4K • Export to post-production Key Benefits • Avoids file-transfers • Automatic transcoding and rewrapping • Offloads edit suites Limecraft Flow • Online platform for collaborative production • Automatic logging, indexing, rough-cut • Transfer back and forth post-production • Access to subtitling and localisation features • Publish online Business Case • 30% reduction of post-production cost • 75% reduction the subtitling cost • Less manual work, more creative output
- 9. How can we take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? – Which data? – How to handle inaccuracy? – What’s the benefit for production?
- 10. 003. Use Case 2 – Non-scripted
- 11. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission Limecraft uses ASR to automatically turn audio into timed text • Machine transcription (122 languages) • Computer Assisted Logging • Ease of searching • Text-based pre-cut (paper-edit) Business Cases • Saves 75% of the cost compared to manual transcription
- 12. Copyright 2018 Limecraft , NV. Confidential – Distribution prohibited without permission © LIMECRAFT connected creativity
- 13. Centralized and structured transcription and logging of material -> Faster cataloguing, better search and retrieval, more efficient editing – Supervised or unsupervised Machine transcription (ASR) and Named Entity Recognigion – Enable Search and Selection • Feed the search index • Add specific parts or subclips to the order or shopping basket – Hand-over to Edit Workstation or Archive • Compatible with Avid MC, Avid Interplay, Adobe Premiere • Timed tekst, Named Entities, Faces
- 14. 004. Use Case 3 – Subtitling & Localisation
- 15. Automatic creation of subtitles – Machine transcription – Spotting rules – Export in a variety of formats, including EBU-TT-D, SRT, STL, etc. Key benefits – 50% cost saving compared to manual subtitling – Producers and distributors can create subtitles themselves – Retain the rights of the subtitles
- 16. Generating subtitles is a bit of A.I. of itself – Subtitles must be aligned along the shot cuts – Various timing rules make up a complex algorithm • Best score wins, but might violate some constraints
- 17. 1. Auto-transcription of logging forms the basis for the next step: assistance of localized subtitling • Together with BBC we’ve been working on providing subtitling workflows to end users – Journalists, content producers who typically have no easy direct access or budget to subtitling
- 18. 1. Auto-transcription of logging forms the basis for the next step: assistance of localized subtitling • Together with BBC we’ve been working on providing subtitling workflows to end users – Journalists, content producers who typically have no easy direct access or budget to subtitling
- 19. Localisation – Translating existing subtitles (the “Template”) – Adding non-domestic subtitles at marginal cost – Enabling producers and distributors to extend their reach But: Machine Translation is a different ball game – Using Machine translation (not Automatic Speech Recognition) – Not intended for the hard of hearing – Maintain consistent timing
- 20. LIMECRAFT connected creativity #2 - A.I-assisted multi-language subtitling - Subtitlebot
- 21. LIMECRAFT connected creativity Summary • Limecraft Flow Asset Management and workflow automation Specific workflow solutions for transcription, subtitling and localiation • Same language subtitling (closed captioning) Using speech recognition for automatic transcription (saving min. 50%) Automatic spotting (saving 100%) • Localisation Uses Machine translation (saving 80%) Add subtitles in other languages at marginal cost -> Free trial available, we appreciate your feedback: www.limecraft.com
Editor's Notes
- #14: Skip to demo and mention this as walking through the demo!