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
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
Carbon Efficient
Generates up to 91% less CO2 than on premise and cloud based workflows:
- No virtual machine infrastructure needed
- Browser based platform – removes the need for additional computer equipment
- Runs on any laptop with no GPU requirements
- Requires just 2Mb/s bandwidth to operate
- Supports remote production eliminating travel to venues
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.
Blackbird Workflow
Frame-accurately view video forwards and backwards at multiple speeds with Blackbird
Use these keys to frame-accurately view the cloud video
- Press J – to reverse, twice for 2x speed, 4 times for 4x speed
- Press K – to pause the video
- Press L – to play, twice for 2x speed, 4 times for 4x speed
- Up arrow – to zoom in to the video Waveform
- Down arrow – to zoom out of the video Waveform
- Left arrow – to move the frame backwards
- Right arrow – to move the frame forwards
Blackbird gives our customers powerful cloud-based video editing capabilities they can't get anywhere else.
Brad Ward - CEO, TownNews