Author: Telestream LLC

  • Telestream Expands Its Cloud Services with the Introduction of UP

    Telestream Expands Its Cloud Services with the Introduction of UP

    New cloud-native platform extends Telestream Cloud Services to support Global Ingest, automation, review, and real-time monitoring across hybrid and distributed production environments

    NEVADA CITY, CA / ACCESS Newswire / March 11, 2026 / Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, today announced the expansion of Telestream Cloud Services with the introduction of UP, a new cloud-native solution designed to support Global Ingest, orchestration, review, and real-time monitoring in modern production environments. With UP, Telestream extends its cloud portfolio beyond high-scale cloud processing and hybrid workflow extension, addressing the growing operational demands of distributed, IP-based media production.

    As media organizations navigate cost pressures, audience fragmentation, and increasingly distributed production models, cloud adoption has accelerated rapidly but unevenly. Some companies are extending trusted workflows into elastic cloud environments. Others are building cloud-native production pipelines from the ground up. UP furthers Telestream’s mission to deliver a unified Global Ingest strategy that spans live, camera card, and file-based workflows. With cloud capture and monitoring plus system-aware metadata, technical teams can achieve precision, flexibility, and speed, no matter the format, source, or operational environment.

    “Media companies are modernizing in different ways and at different speeds,” said Charlie Dunn, Executive Vice President, Products, Telestream. “Some are evolving established infrastructure. Others are launching fully cloud-native operations. Our approach is to give customers flexible options, whether they’re scaling global processing, extending existing workflows, or operating real-time production entirely in the cloud. With UP, we’re expanding our cloud services to address the operational layer of that transformation.”

    A Broader Cloud Services Portfolio

    Telestream Cloud Services now include three distinct offerings:

    • UP – A modular, cloud-native service layer for ingest, orchestration, review, and monitoring

    • EDC (formerly known as Encoding.com) – API-first cloud media processing at scale

    • Vantage Cloud – Extending Vantage workflows into cloud environments for hybrid operations

    Each service addresses different operational requirements.

    UP expands the portfolio into cloud-native operational control, supporting ingest, workflow automation, collaborative review, and live signal monitoring in distributed production environments.

    EDC provides highly parallel, API-driven AI analysis, transcoding, QC, captioning, and audio processing for OTT platforms, FAST channels, and global content distributors. Designed for elastic scalability, EDC enables high-throughput media processing without infrastructure management overhead.

    Vantage Cloud allows existing Vantage customers to extend trusted workflows into cloud environments, enabling burst capacity, geographic flexibility, and hybrid deployment models without re-architecting established pipelines.

    What’s UP?

    UP is Telestream’s cloud-native platform that brings ingest, orchestration, review, and live monitoring into a single operational environment. Built for distributed and hybrid production models, UP gives teams real-time control and visibility across cloud-based workflows.

    At launch, UP includes:

    • UP.Capture – Elastic live and file-based ingest in the cloud for multi-source, fast-turnaround production.

    • UP.Review – Proxyless playback and annotation with growing file support to accelerate editorial decision-making.

    • UP.Workflow – Low-code automation for ingest, QC, AI tasks, captioning, and delivery.

    • UP.Lens – Cloud-native multiviewer monitoring and intelligent alerts for SRT and other live contribution feeds.

    • UP.Ingest – Professional camera card and file-based ingest for sports, news, and mobile production.

    UP supports deployment as managed SaaS, within customer-controlled cloud environments, or connected to on-prem infrastructure, allowing organizations to modernize without abandoning existing systems.

    “For nearly three decades, Telestream has helped the industry navigate major technology shifts,” said Benjamin Desbois, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Telestream. “With UP and our expanded Cloud Services portfolio, we’re giving customers the freedom to modernize on their terms, connecting Global Ingest, automation, and monitoring into a unified operational layer that’s ready for wherever their workflows need to run next.”

    Meet with Telestream at NAB 2026

    Members of the media are invited to meet with Telestream at NAB 2026. To schedule a briefing, please contact Kristin Canders at kristin@grithaus.agency.

    To learn more about Telestream Cloud Services and the new UP offering, please visit: https://www.telestream.com/up/.

    Download the Telestream UP + Cloud Services press kit here.

    About Telestream

    Telestream has been at the forefront of digital media innovation for nearly three decades, serving as the trusted partner behind some of the world’s most mission-critical media operations. Its industry-leading test and measurement and media workflow solutions streamline operations and scale efficiently across the entire media lifecycle – from capture and live production to automation, processing, quality control, content management, and distribution. Designed for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, Telestream ensures high-quality media delivery to any audience, on any platform. The company is privately held and headquartered in Nevada City, California. Learn more at www.telestream.net.

    Press Contact

    Kristin Canders
    Grithaus Agency
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    SOURCE: Telestream LLC

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  • Telestream Advances Production-Ready AI Across Its Product Portfolio

    Telestream Advances Production-Ready AI Across Its Product Portfolio

    New AI capabilities drive smarter automation, enriched metadata, and assisted workflow design for live and file-based workflows on-premises and in the cloud

    NEVADA CITY, CA / ACCESS Newswire / February 26, 2026 / Telestream, global leader in media workflow technologies, today announced expanded practical AI enhancements across its Vantage, Vantage Cloud, EDC, Stanza, and Qualify product lines. Building on the foundation introduced with Vantage AI in 2025, Telestream is advancing its production-ready AI workflows, accelerating localization, strengthening quality control, and introducing new AI-assisted workflow design capabilities that connect and unify enterprise operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

    The latest enhancements reflect a shift from introducing AI features to operationalizing AI across the enterprise, driving measurable workflow impact across ingest, processing, compliance, and delivery.

    “Last year we introduced Vantage AI as a new foundation for intelligent media workflows,” said Rich Andes, Vice President of Product Management at Telestream. “Today, we’re expanding that foundation with deeper integration across cloud and hybrid deployments, enhanced QC automation, and scalable localization workflows. This is practical AI in action: embedded, explainable, and designed for real-world production environments.”

    Telestream Practical AI: What’s New in 2026
    Telestream’s latest AI advancements deliver meaningful operational progress across five core areas:

    AI Caption: Expanded Localization at Scale
    AI-powered captioning and translation now support up to 128 languages across Vantage and Stanza workflows, enabling automated speech-to-text, caption generation, and multilingual subtitle delivery in a unified processing chain. These enhancements significantly reduce turnaround time for FAST channels, OTT distribution, and global sports syndication.

    AI Qualify: AI-Assisted QC Embedded in Production Pipelines
    Enhancements to Qualify integrate AI-powered lip-sync validation, subtitle alignment checks, and spoken-language verification directly into automated QC workflows. By flagging only exception-based issues for operator review, teams reduce manual inspection time while improving delivery confidence and platform compliance.

    AI Speech: Real-Time Speech Intelligence for Growing Files
    Speech-to-text and metadata extraction capabilities now support growing file workflows, enabling real-time tagging and searchable metadata during ingest and processing. This allows news, sports, and live production teams to accelerate time-to-edit and improve content discoverability without waiting for file completion.

    AI Vision: Visual Intelligence Reduces Manual Lifting
    AI Vision introduces frame-level visual intelligence across Telestream workflows, automatically transforming video into actionable metadata that extends beyond traditional file properties. Using advanced computer vision, AI Vision identifies objects, logos, lower thirds, safe-area violations, and objectionable content, while generating scene-level descriptions in real time. These capabilities enable describing the scene within a video feed as metadata, logo detection and removal across large content libraries, and ad-break identification and replacement for VOD repurposing. AI Vision reduces manual review time, strengthens compliance workflows, and expands automation for live and file-based production environments.

    AI Media Analyzer: Content-Aware Analysis
    AI Media Analyzer advances content inspection from basic technical validation to contextual understanding of what is actually inside a media file. Rather than simply verifying resolution, frame rate, or codec, Media Analyzer detects the nature of the content, segments media into meaningful sections, and generates metadata that reflects scene changes, content types, graphic overlays, and potential compliance risks. This content-aware analysis enables faster review cycles and more accurate downstream workflow triggering. It provides significant operator time savings across ingest, processing, and delivery environments, transforming media assessment into an automated, production-ready capability. This feature is available in Telestream’s EDC platform and will be coming soon to Vantage AI.

    These enhancements ensure AI capabilities are integrated components that create a trusted production infrastructure.

    “AI delivers value when it’s operationalized at scale,” Andes added. “Our customers don’t need more labels or transcripts; they need intelligent automation that reduces turnaround time, improves accuracy, meets compliance, and scales with their infrastructure and workflows. That’s what this next phase of Practical AI delivers.”

    Designed for Control, Security, and Trust
    As with previous releases, Telestream’s AI capabilities remain secure by design. Customers retain full control of their content, whether deployed on-premises, in private environments, or via managed cloud services. No customer media is used to train shared models, ensuring compliance, auditability, and cost predictability.

    Built for the Next Era of Media Delivery
    In addition to AI workflow enhancements, Telestream continues to invest in next-generation format readiness and compliance standards, including support for emerging codecs and audio standards and exploration of C2PA metadata workflows to address growing content authenticity requirements.

    Together, these advancements reinforce Telestream’s position as a workflow platform partner, helping broadcasters, streamers, and content producers modernize operations without sacrificing control, quality, or reliability.

    Meet with Telestream at NAB 2026
    Members of the media are invited to meet with Telestream at NAB 2026. To schedule a briefing, please contact Kristin Canders at kristin@grithaus.agency.

    To learn more about Telestream’s production-ready AI, visit https://www.telestream.com/vantage-ai/.

    Download the press kit here.

    About Telestream
    Telestream has been at the forefront of digital media innovation for nearly three decades, serving as the trusted partner behind some of the world’s most mission-critical media operations. Its industry-leading test and measurement and media workflow solutions streamline operations and scale efficiently across the entire media lifecycle-from capture and live production to automation, processing, quality control, content management, and distribution. Designed for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, Telestream ensures high-quality media delivery to any audience, on any platform. The company is privately held and headquartered in Nevada City, California. Learn more at www.telestream.net.

    Press Contact
    Kristin Canders
    Grithaus Agency
    (e) kristin@grithaus.agency
    (p) +1 (207) 974-7744

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    SOURCE: Telestream LLC

    View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire