Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough on what motivates a new breed of global sports fans Ian McDonough: Look to the US for a glimpse of future trends of tech innovation in global sports and to see how cloud video is delivering scale and speed. As a lifelong fan of Liverpool Football...
Blackbird is all about creating and distributing video as easily and efficiently as possible. I recently introduced the Blackbird JavaScript editor. Running in a browser transforms the delivery of our cloud video platform by distributors, resellers and OEMs to their clients. Blackbird Edge is about simplifying how Blackbird puts videos...
Blackbird Platform The Blackbird Platform has been undergoing a number of transformations. The platform is now available on https://cloud.blackbird.video – your login details are unchanged but password managers will require you to enter your credentials at login. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. Blackbird Ascent and Forte The JavaScript version of...
The following is an article written by Digital Media World about Blackbird in November 2018: Cloud infrastructures have become more interesting to media companies because of their potential to cost-effectively, and rapidly, scale operations up or down. Also, within a cloud environment, organisations can use or offer customers services and...
Blackbird Edge server for OS X This recently released and field proven technology enables remote production teams and executives to gain visibility of content and the ability to begin operations faster than ever. The ability for Edge on OS X to fulfil live operation with its HLS ingest capability also...
To all Blackbird users: We are thrilled to announce that Blackbird is transitioning to a browser based editing application. As part of this transition you will be able to login into your existing Blackbird account using a web browser (Chrome recommended) with no requirement for Java applet configuration or installation...
The sheer audacity of it! Who – apart from Forbidden Technologies, the makers of Blackbird – could even envisage a professional-level cloud video editor in JavaScript? When we originally voiced this idea, it was met with incredulity. Yes, it would allow the ultimate cloud experience for the booming video market....
The following is an interview that Forbidden Technologies’ CEO, Ian McDonough, gave to IABM at IBC 2018: We asked Ian McDonough, CEO at IABM member Blackbird, to tell us a bit about this apparently new name in our industry. Forbidden Technologies could really be described as a customer-centric R&D company for many...
