The world's fastest, most powerful cloud video editing and publishing platform

Blackbird

Developed specifically for the browser and fully supporting remote production, Blackbird delivers unbeatable speed, scalability and richness of editing features and video output.

Blackbird is unique. The platform allows you to manage your video like no other solution – enabling lightning-fast video viewing, editing and publishing – anywhere, any time, by anyone.

Instant precision access to your video

Access live streams within seconds
Scheduled capture to enable operation anywhere
Supercharged live workflows accepting growing files, RTMP, HLS and SDI inputs
Frame accurate, multi-track, multi-channel operation

Edit Frame-Accurately Anywhere - In a Browser

Log in from any browser, anywhere – with bandwidth of just 2Mb/s
Fully-featured professional video editor for all skill levels
Create simple clips, sequenced edits, compilations, highlights and longer form content
Immediate, frame-accurate video navigation
Support for up to 12 video tracks and 36 audio tracks
Alpha channel overlays, pan and zoom and multi-cam
Audio tools to support full multichannel operations for workflows
Realtime video and audio transitions
Direct voice over
Subtitles and Closed Captions to comply with international standards
Colour correction capabilities
Blur effects
Powerful logging and review capabilities

Publish In Seconds - To Everywhere

Rapidly publish direct to social media including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch
Advanced integration to Twitter Amplify
Support for square, portrait and non-standard aspect ratios
Automated overlays, pre-rolls and post-rolls
Distribute and syndicate broadcast quality on-demand video content to OTT, web and digital platforms

Monetize Your Content

Create great content fast and efficiently
Deliver your content to subscriber platforms
Publish fast to social media platforms to drive engagement and traffic to premium monetization platforms
Insert branding, advertising and sponsored content for multi-platform monetization
Tag brands, sponsors and advertising partners in your video content
Promote OTT subscriptions & other services using real-time highlights
Add bumpers and lower-third graphics for promo messaging
Add pre/post roll adverts to videos

Rich User and Media Management Portal

Clipping, logging, editing and editorial production roles
Roles define toolset and publishing rights
Simplicity of operation allows users to focus on content creation and publishing
Powerful statistics for usage, editing and publishing

Easy Integration With Your Infrastructure

Blackbird references your media from its current location – on-premise or in the cloud
Dramatically reduces the need for uploading and downloading large files
High volume file access through cloud and/or Network Attached Storage
Works inside your Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud instances
Publishes in full quality from your source media

Extensible and Interoperable

Custom metadata input and output for integration to MAM / CMS / CDN
Data interchange APIs for AI/ML data and external data providers
Integration with Avid, Adobe Premiere and other NLEs

The Blackbird Magic

The ‘Blackbird Magic’ enables unbeatable speed, scalability and quality for viewing, editing and publishing video in the cloud. At its heart, Blackbird is an IP company and we hold 14 patents around 2 core tenets of our technology.

The Blackbird Codec: our ultra-efficient codec developed just for the cloud enables a high quality proxy version of your video to be created faster than real time – enabling you to work only on the content you need. Our unique technology dramatically reduces the cost and time of content creation and distribution – powering massive productivity efficiencies across your business and creating added value through opening up new workflows.

Blackbird Forte: our fully-featured, highly-responsive, javascript, professional editing suite has re-written the rules of what is possible in a standard web browser: 18 video tracks, 36 audio tracks, complex transitions, color correction, voice over – and much much more – all made possible from simply logging in to your Blackbird account from anywhere.

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