Blackbird (software)

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Blackbird
Developer(s) Blackbird plc. (formerly Forbidden Technologies plc.)
Stable release
Blackbird / 25 January 2007;17 years ago (2007-01-25)
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Video editing software
License Proprietary
Website www.blackbird.video

Blackbird (formerly named FORscene) is an integrated internet video platform, video editing software, covering non-linear editing and publishing for broadcast, web and mobile.

Contents

Designed by Blackbird plc to allow collaborative editing of video at resolutions of up to 540p and up to 60 frames per second on bandwidths as low as 2MBit/s, [1] it is capable of video logging, reviewing, publishing and hosting through HD and 4K to UHD quality from original sources. The system is implemented as a mobile app for Android and iOS devices, a Java applet and a pure JavaScript web application as part of its user interface. The latter runs on platforms without application installation, codec installation, or machine configuration and has Web 2.0 features.

Blackbird won the Royal Television Society's award for Technology in the post-production process in December 2005. [2] [3]

Usage

The Blackbird platform's functionality makes it suitable for multiple uses in the video editing workflow.

For editors and producers wanting to produce broadcast-quality output, Blackbird provides an environment for the early stages of post-production to happen remotely and cheaply (logging, shot selection, collaborative reviewing, rough cutting and offline editing, for example) and more recently fine cut editing. [4] Blackbird then outputs instructions in standard formats which can be applied to the high-quality master-footage for detailed and high-quality editing prior to broadcast.

Other users want to prepare footage for publishing to lower-quality media - the small screens of mobile phones and video iPods, and to the web where bandwidth restricts the quality of video it is currently practical to output. For these users, all editing can be carried out in Blackbird, before publishing to social media and online video channels, OTT [5] or commercial cloud storage. Video can also be saved in MPEG, Ogg, HTML video, podcasting formats as well as Blackbird's proprietary player.

The platform was reported in July 2012 as being used by NBC in connection with the 2012 Summer Olympics involving integration of the service with YouTube [6] [7] and continues to be used to deliver coverage for sport events such as Formula One, [8] PGA European Tour and the Premier League. §

Services

The video platform is referred to broadly as Blackbird and marketed as three distinct B2B products: [9]

All exploit the cloud for delivery. Integrations to third parties provide additional services (for example graphics, CC, transcription) and workflow (such as to other NLE systems).

Blackbird Ascent and Blackbird Forte

Ascent and Forte enable functionality including: video logging, frame accurate [10] non-linear editing (and multicam support for up to 18 cameras), reviewing, publishing, storyboarding and clipping. Ascent is designed for workflows that require a subset of Forte's features.

Blackbird Edge server

The Blackbird Edge server is a gateway between content and the Blackbird platform. Clients may elect to use a single physical Edge server per fixed or remote location to scale up operations and improve overall performance (e.g. the time taken to retrieve video for review). Features may vary based on workflow / infrastructure requirement but include:

The product exploits high speed LAN access whilst preserving the principle of access from anywhere. Deployment may be on-premise, on-location, or to public / private cloud. Linux and macOS supported. Logging, editing and reviewing of uploaded material can start as soon as the upload process starts. Files containing video, audio and still may also be picked and uploaded using a web browser for ingest.

Blackbird Player

The Blackbird Player supports; renderless publishing, multiple layers, own branding, [11] [12] clipping and URL sharing, ability to revoke access and a patented navigation bar. The Blackbird decoder is packaged in libraries for native mobile apps, applets [13] and a pure JavaScript player. [14]

Components

The Blackbird platform is made up of various components, discussed here.

Platform servers

The server infrastructure on the Blackbird backbone network (referred to as the cloud) dedicated to Blackbird's customers are distributed over numerous locations and handle around 10,000 hours of new video content each week. These act as one system, increasing both effective capacity and redundancy. As the front end does most of the work during editing, and the upload software does the compression work, the server is lightly loaded and can support many users at the same time. Sites may also attach a server to their own network (Edge) for improved performance/scalability (local ingest and caching to multiply the numbers of users on existing internet connections).

Codecs

Blackbird has its own codecs for both video and audio. These use a form of adaptive coding to allow local variations in the type of data to be encoded efficiently.

Osprey

Osprey supports loss-free video compression. Blackbird users can see broadcast quality video during editing (as well as proxy quality as has been the case with Blackbird's other codecs) and broadcasters can use the video output from Blackbird directly for transmission.

Blackbird

The current Blackbird video codec is called Blackbird 9 . It is designed for both editing and video streaming over variable speed broadband Internet connections. By varying the frame rate, it can provide consistent picture quality even on slow connections.

Like its predecessor Firebird (used in the FORlive system), the Blackbird codec allows real time compression and playback of video. This is important for handling the quantity of video in modern productions, as well as the reviewing, logging, editing and publishing features of Blackbird.

The Blackbird codec (formerly "Firebird") is a proprietary video codec developed by Forbidden Technologies and used by their flagship product, Blackbird (formerly "Forscene").

Blackbird is designed for both editing and video streaming over variable speed internet connections. Blackbird can provide consistent picture quality on slow connections by varying the frame rate through the use of tokens. The tokens represent each source image which are scaled versions of each source image. [15] [16]

The Blackbird video codec facilitates a content-aware dynamic framerate. [17] The codec can create a lightweight proxy, which can be used to deliver a live stream from an event.

Stephen Streater is the principle progenitor of the Blackbird video codec, which was released in 2004. [18]

On 22 January 2017, Forbidden Technologies released the Blackbird 9 codec. [19] [20]

On 6 March 2018, MSG Networks received a New York chapter Emmy nomination for "Technical Achievement" as follows "MSG Networks Digital Video Editing & Digital Distribution via Blackbird Technology". [21]

Impala

The Blackbird audio codec is called Impala. Datarate and quality can be varied depending on the use: 10 kbit/s for modem web video and mobile playback, 30 kbit/s for audio only modem playback or broadband playback with video, and 80 kbit/s per channel for editing.

User interfaces

Functionality to support production workflows, account management and media asset management is accessible from native mobile apps for Android and iOS, web and Java platforms. In 2017 a strategic migration to JavaScript [22] was begun to deliver video playback and video editing capability to web browsers without additional programs or plugins.

Account management and MAM

Accounts and users are separate. Many individuals may use the same Blackbird account and each user is assigned a role (manager, commenter, reviewer, logger, editor, storyboard). Admin/operational and MAM features include; transfer, search and playback of material, ingest configuration, workflow, account and user settings and usage reports.

Security

Each standard user account has its own password-protected single sign-on web page. Once logged on, the users have access to their own videos, library material, and any functionality their account supports. Video is not stored on the local computer's hard disc, so when the user closes their web browser, their video is not accessible to subsequent users of the same computer.

Internet standards

The Blackbird interfaces operate through Internet standards such as HTTP, JavaScript and Java, so can be used even in companies with severe firewalls. If web browsing works, then Blackbird almost always will too.

Publishing

The Blackbird editing platform supports publishing from original sources up to 4K, to destinations including: social media and online video channels (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter), OTT and commercial cloud storage (e.g. S3, Azure). Video can be saved to a range of formats (e.g. MPEG, Ogg, XDCAM, EDL, HTML video, FCPX), still images (e.g. JPEG) and the proprietary Blackbird Player.

Timecode export

Each frame of professionally shot video is tagged with a timecode which identifies it. Combining the timecode information of video handled within Blackbird at browse quality with the original broadcast quality video allows information in Blackbird to be transferred to a broadcast quality version. Videos logged or edited in Blackbird can be exported in the form of a simple EDL or more complex XML for autoconform and offline or online on an Avid or Final Cut Pro system.

Broadcast

Videos which have been edited within Blackbird can be conformed/rendered to multiple outputs automatically at anything up to 3840p - full Ultra High Definition (UHD). At present 1080p HD accounts for the majority of production workflows. [23] After editing Blackbird uploads the full quality frames used in the finished programme into the Cloud, or alternative eco-systems via Blackbird Edge. The special effects, captions, layers, graphics, cropping and stretching, colour correction and titles are combined at full resolution on a Blackbird Cloud for download, or Edge Server, ready for transmission. Material can be reviewed and edited from anywhere on the web, not just one local source.

Systems integration

Final programmes can be made, even in High-definition, and sent in broadcast quality efficiently to the broadcaster for transmission without using any third party editing systems. However Blackbird supports integration with third party systems, both in broadcast and elsewhere.

EDL/XML

Blackbird supports Edit decision list/XML export to industry editing systems such as or Avid / Final Cut Pro. For example, creation of rough cuts in Blackbird can then be reliably conformed on Avid, even when they include clips which the Avid would not normally be able to ingest because of time code breaks and gaps.

SDI

Serial sigital interface improves Blackbird's integration into the high end broadcast environment. SDI support allows Blackbird to ingest source material in both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) resolutions from any professional video source in real time. The SDI video input meets both Phase Alternating Line (PAL) and National Television System Committee (NTSC) standards.[ citation needed ]

Licensing

The software is provided as a service (SAAS) which is charged by usage. [24]

History

Blackbird is a development from an editing system made by Eidos Interactive in the 1990s. This history starts from the first public showing of this product, at the International Broadcasting Convention in Europe in 1990.

1990–1999
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
1990 [25] -1999Edit 1, Edit 2, Optima
  • Software codecs
  • Cheap removable storage
  • Reliable platform
  • Quick to learn
2000–2005
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
February 2000
  • London float for Forbidden Technologies plc
  • Shares rise 5000% in first week
February 2001Java video streaming on website Java
  • 384x288 pixels
  • 25 frame/s
  • 40 kbit/s for talking heads.
  • Picture quality "cartoon-like"
May 2002Live video streaming to mobile phone Java/GPRS Picture quality poor e.g. monochrome
December 2002Broadband web streamingJava384x288 pixels, 25 frame/s
September 2003FORlive [27] launched Linux compression/ Java player
  • Live video compression
  • 384x288 pixels, 25 frame/s.
November 2003FORmobile launched Symbian Series 60
  • Mobile phone player application
  • 160x120 pixels, up to 12.5 frame/s, colour.
September 2004Forscene launched [28] Java
  • Forlive compression
  • Optima-style editing
  • Formobile/FORweb publishing
September 2004IBC TV news use FORscene/FORmobile [11] Symbian Branded player
February 2005 GMTV first broadcaster to sign up [29] JavaInternational access to GMTV
May 2005Logging added to ForsceneJavaJava logging, editing and publishing tool
September 2005Upload over-the-air from mobile phones [30] Symbian
  • Video: up to 352x288 pixels
  • Photographs: phone resolution
September 2005IBC TV news use FORscene/FORmobileSymbianBranded player. The mobile player can be sent from handset to handset for free via Bluetooth, and videos can also be distributed virally via Bluetooth once the Forscene mobile player has been installed. Forbidden has coined the term Viewtooth to describe this process. [31]
September 2005First broadcast TV series uses Forscene Channel 5 (UK) Trust Me - I'm a Holiday Rep
2006–2010
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
January 2006New video codec designed for editingBlackbird 1 codec
January/February 2006First prime time TV series uses ForsceneBBC1 (UK)Super Vets
April 2006 Podcasting released Video iPod, iTunes
April/May 2006 British Army uses Forscene mobile player [32] Symbian mobile phonesAscent of Everest published on mobiles
May 2006Video PodcastForsceneVideos edited in Forscene can be published directly as video podcasts. These can then be downloaded and viewed in a podcast viewer such as iTunes or on a video iPod.
June 2006Forscene review [33] BBC Breakfast, This Morning, Sky News

Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News

Broadcasters select Save the Children footage
August 2006Forscene Ogg support addedJavaOgg format is supported by Wikipedia for upload of suitable video content
September 2006Forscene online chat feature addedJava
  • Share edited videos
  • Forscene users talk in real time
  • Contributions (and logging entries) are spell checked (as of Nov 2006)
November 2006Citizen JournalismJava / Symbian mobile phonesThird project completed at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP). Citizen journalism began at the IBC in 2006.
January 2007Account ManagementWebInterface provides for management of accounts by customers.
February 2007Forscene Flash support addedJavaExport of video to the Flash format for use with the Adobe Flash Player.
March 2007Forscene Speed ControlJavaVideo and/or audio clips can be edited for slow motion/fast motion style effects.
April 2007Forscene FadesJavaFade up and fade to black with a single drag on the video track.
May 2007File names/playbackJavaMulti-line file names and three-speed playback control.
June 2007SecurityJavaLog on now supports the secure HTTPS protocol.
August 2007Images / playbackJavaImages can be integrated directly into the video track and playback can now be viewed at 150% (as well as 100% and 200%).
September 2007DVJavaBroadcast quality DV can be output directly from the web interface and effective transfer of DV from the field over standard internet links.
October 2007Webstart/codecJavaWebstart can be used to run FORscene, providing access to more memory available, and better performance. The Blackbird codecs deliver better picture quality and lower memory requirements.
December 2007Audio/graphics/codec/ account managementJavaSimpler stereo audio editing by linking the two audio tracks. Add anti-aliased graphic overlays with transparency levels and fades. Accounts distinguish between departmental and inter-departmental (programme-wide) levels of access.
January 2008CodecJavaBlackbird codec upgraded to version 5.
February 2008Saturation/recompress/ 1GB/audioJavaRight dragging in the video window adjust saturation levels. Recompress videos to benefit from the latest codec. Modern machines may set a new memory limit to 1GB (reducing network traffic). Improved audio quality.
March 2008Proxy box/AAFJavaBoost internet performance for videos captured locally or viewed recently. Support for Avid's AAF files is available, complementing existing support for EDL and FCP (XML).
June 2008Thumbnails/storyboardJavaWeb published videos have click-through thumbnails. Storyboard offers a simpler editing process with fewer clicks required to use it.
July 2008AAF/white balance/JPEG exportJavaAdditional data added to AAF output to carry more information through to Avid from FORscene. Adjust for colour differences between artificial / daylight conditions. Export a video frame to a JPEG image.
August 2008Colourful fadesJavaColour wheel controls fades to/from colours other than the default (black) can pick from colours on the video window.
October 2008TitlesJavaIn addition to imported graphics Forscene's subtitle functions are enhanced with background and font colour, transparency, and size controls.
September 2009Forscene ServerServerSites can multiply the number of users on their existing internet connections whilst preserving all the advantages of internet access from anywhere.
September 2009Forscene HDHDForscene can now output HD directly providing remote access to video for editing from anywhere in the world, only uploading the fraction of HD that is actually used in the final programme, and ability to use existing computers and internet links.
September 2009OspreyCodecWith Osprey codec Forscene enables video editing at broadcast quality locally through a web browser interface and wide-area over the public Internet.
April 2010MulticamJavaMulticam can support up to eight concurrent synchronised video streams for logging and editing.
2011–2015
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
February 2011AndroidMobileClient available on the Android platform (consumer edition) including integration with YouTube and Facebook.
February 2014iOSMobileForscene client demonstrated on the iOS platform (iPad).
July 2015evaiOSVideo social network launched.
August 2015Blackbird 8CodecRelease of Blackbird 8 codec.
2015–2019
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
March 2016CaptevateJavaScriptVideo editor designed for the consumer market launched.
August 2017VidLibJavaScriptConversion of core video library from Java. Downloads and renders edits in real-time. Will initially support two applications; Blackbird Player ("The Player") and Blackbird Clipper (shot selection of live or pre-recorded video).
March 2018Blackbird 9CodecRelease of Blackbird 9 codec.
April 2018Cloud ProviderAzureForscene made available on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace cloud computing infrastructure.
May 2018Ascent/ForteIntegration AI OS integration annotates content with meta-data and drives workflow.
September 2018Ascent/ForteJavaScriptProducts Ascent and Forte JavaScript implementations launched. Frame accurate editing can be undertaken in browsers without additional configuration or installation of plugins or applications.
January 2019BlackbirdFitness TechnologyPeloton select Blackbird to edit on-demand virtual classes.
March 2019BlackbirdSportsIMG adopt Blackbird to clip, edit and publish live sports video content.
May 2019BlackbirdSportsDeltatre extend use of Blackbird for turnaround of long and short-form game highlights and clips for a range of sports, including rugby, cycling and athletics.
May 2019BlackbirdSportsNRL use Blackbird to support packaging short highlights during live NRL matches to be distributed to the league’s global fanbase.
June 2019BlackbirdSocial MediaA+E Networks adopt Blackbird to give executives, producers, editors, marketers and others within the ability to view, edit and enrich video library content.
August 2019BlackbirdNewsTownNews extend use of Blackbird to 39 TV stations.
October 2019Aperture Solutions GroupCloud Editing Turnkey SystemThe US Department of State and its production teams will use Blackbird to rapidly clip, edit and publish news broadcast live to its social channels including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and to own website and other digital news outlets across the United States. [34]
November 2019BlackbirdAWSBlackbird's cloud production and distribution system chosen by Bloomberg Media. [35]
December 2019BlackbirdSportsEleven Sports adopt Blackbird for rapid editing and publishing of sports content to fans online
2020–2024
DateVersionPlatformSignificant features
June 2020AwardPlatformTV Technology’s Best of Show Digital Video Award [36]

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