Sports—Reach and engage fans faster
Multi-site contribution, live previews, collaboration, NLE integrations and browser-based sub-clipping help you streamline your production workflow. Upload melt reels or push live streams, log the action from anywhere to index and make it ready for your production teams to work faster.
Operational efficiency to stay focused on Game day.
Streamline operations with tailored and scalable event production that matches your team's needs and budgets. Integrate event schedules and automate workflows to remove complexity and manual tasks and let your teams concentrate on event day operations.
Secure access to content for anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Flexible user permissions and web access, combined with end-to-end encryption and compliance with ISO 27001 standards ensure that your production, broadcast, official, medical, and coaching teams have access to footage they need, when they need it.
Take advantage of Sony's full sports stack
Leverage the full power of Sony's sports solutions with automated workflows for video files, live streams, sports data and combine with technologies like Hawk-Eye to bring end-to-end solutions that meet the unique needs of different sports or events.
NHRA
NHRA
"Sony pioneered cloud based asset management and the NHRA saw the potential to increase our productivity using Ci across all departments, from sales to editorial Ci allows us the ability to quickly edit, and deliver content to network partners and vendors."
—Rob Hedrick, Senior Director of Production
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CBS Sports
CBS Sports
"Now since our content will be in the cloud, we can globalize that content. We can have editors work from home, the broadcast center and in the cloud. We have all these different edit locations but yet the footage was centralized."
—Chris Cruz, Director of Media Services
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Sun Belt Conference
Sun Belt Conference
"The really nice thing about Ci is that you're able to scrub the footage. You don't have to downlad the content, you can look at it, see what you want and even clip off the last 15 seconds of a full game. It makes it so efficient when you're trying to produce these games."
—Travis Llewellyn, Sun Belt Conference
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Features
From the field to the cloud, but faster.
Upload files or live streams from multiple devices, locations, and sites. Accelerate file gathering with reliable, blazing-fast transfers.
File-based Uploads
Upload files and folders from anywhere, from any browser-enabled device, ensuring that your production workflow keeps moving.
Remote Contribution via File Request links
Get files from anyone, anywhere with a simple 'contributor only' link.
Automate metadata extraction
Crucial metadata is preserved no matter the method of ingest.
Upload from cameras to Ci
Automatically upload footage from Sony cameras using the PDT-FP1 over 5G/LTE network.
Folder and Bulk imports
Offload camera cards and import folders with accelerated file transfer. Import content from your own AWS S3 location.
Capture live streams
Ingest HLS, RTMP, and SRT live streams directly and preview, clip, and log while still streaming.
Get the content ready for production
Whether it's a live stream, file, or clip created in the browser, Ci automatically transcodes content into edit-ready proxies - which means your production can access the content they need to start working instantly.
Tools and apps
Sub-Clipping
Crop and render out to social media templates
- Trim long-form videos into clips in your browser
- Render mp4 or custom formats
- Preserve metadata from the source file
Tools and apps
Metadata enrichment with MediaLog
Publish logs to add to search index
- Add time-based metadata to files and live streams
- Collaborative browser-based metadata logging
- Create metadata templates to standardize logs
Features
Custom Render Profiles
Ongoing support for more formats
- Auto-transcode files into the format you need or render on-demand
- Store source files and renders in one place
- Seamlessly share renders for delivery
Features
Custom Metadata & AI-powered tagging
Enrich content with metadata to find clips faster
- Add custom metadata to files
- Automate tagging with AI-powered tools
- Filter and search by custom metadata
Deliver seamlessly and securely
Review, share, and deliver videos for review in real-time without compromising security.
Comment with On-Frame with telestration
Review gameplay analysis and recruiting videos with frame-accurate comments. Simply add mark-ups directly on videos to ensure clear notes.
Live Synchronized Playback with LiveSessions
Experience synchronized playback for real-time review sessions, enabling your team to watch, discuss, and make decisions instantly, regardless of their location.
Secure Preview and Delivery Share-Links with MediaBox
Share your content securely with partners and license holders with simple-share links. Customize permissions to control downloads, set expiration dates and track activity.
Tools and apps
Catalog and Archive
Store content in Ci as your secure, offsite back-up. Manage and archive files anyway you want and seamlessly share access. Built-in archiving, powerful search functionality, and preview-ready proxies let you keep files for years and just clicks away when you need to pull a file for a new project. Storage management policies offer an automated way of managing storage classes to keep your costs low. Bring-your-own-cloud storage* to keep your content in-place while enjoying the user-friendly experience of Ci for managing content.
*Compatible with AWS S3 storage
Integrations
Hand in hand with the tools you use
Direct integrations with cameras and transmitter devices allow you to instantly transfer footage from your camera to Ci Media Cloud, accelerating your production workflow and enabling immediate access to raw footage.
Case study
National Hot Rod Association
Case Study
Explore how the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) optimized its production workflow and streamlined media management to elevate productivity across multiple departments by harnessing the power of Ci Media Cloud.
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