Broadcasters, sports leagues, and enterprises can now find content five times faster and log metadata ten times quicker — with 50% greater accuracy — thanks to Viz One 8.1, the latest release of Vizrt’s industry-leading media asset management (MAM) system.
Broadcasters and content owners today face mounting pressure to deliver more content, faster, and across more platforms. With the ever-growing volume of raw footage and the limits of manual shot logging and archive research, traditional workflows are no longer sustainable. Viz One 8.1’s integration with aiconix’s DeepVA AI platform directly addresses these challenges, automating key stages of media management — including contextual metadata creation — to help content teams move from time-consuming manual processes to intelligent, insight-driven production.
“Media archives are only as valuable as your ability to find and use what’s in them,” says Jochen Bergdolt, Head of MAM at Vizrt. “Viz One 8.1 delivers the kind of AI that makes a measurable difference – saving hours of manual tagging, surfacing the most relevant assets instantly, and helping content creators tell better stories, faster.”
Search, find, discover, and reuse content faster than ever
Viz One 8.1 introduces AI-powered visual recognition that transforms raw footage into structured, searchable data – helping content teams surface the right content in seconds. It adds “visual understanding” to archives and workflows, automatically identifying and tagging faces, objects, and scenes within video material, including through trainable custom models. This enriched metadata fuels advanced, vector-based search, uncovering “related content” and breaking long assets into meaningful scenes for faster research, compliance, and editing.
Teams can focus on training AI for unknown entities and performing optional QA reviews, with early tests showing a 10x reduction in time spent logging and a 50% increase in accuracy, and a 5x improvement in surfacing the right clips, scenes, and themes for reuse, compliance, or monetization.
“Content creators need AI that works for their specific needs, not a one-size-fits-all solution,” says Esther Arroyo, CMO at aiconix. “DeepVA’s ability to train custom models and generate structured, machine-readable metadata ensures Viz One customers can optimize their workflows and deliver more relevant, localized content to their audiences.”
The result? Faster research and clip discovery, fewer bottlenecks, and greater creative flexibility for content creators working across news, sports, and entertainment on any platform.
Built on a future-ready foundation
Viz One 8.1 builds on the containerized architecture introduced in Viz One 8, designed to scale seamlessly across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. DeepVA’s AI services are deployed securely within each customer’s Viz One environment, providing powerful AI workflows without requiring sensitive data to leave their infrastructure.
Together, Vizrt and DeepVA are pioneering a pragmatic approach to AI in media: delivering automation where it adds real value, without adding unnecessary complexity or “AI noise”. This marks an important step in Vizrt’s mission to revolutionize viewer experiences through cloud, AI, and digital-first workflows. Recent innovations have cut setup time with AI-powered lens calibration, made virtual environments more lifelike with AI-generated talent shadows and reflections, and simplified the use of augmented reality graphics in any indoor or outdoor setting through AI-driven greenscreen-less keying.
“Viz One 8.1 is the next step in our long-term vision,” adds Bergdolt. “By combining Viz One’s proven reliability with intelligent automation, we’re giving customers the tools to work smarter today – and build stronger media operations for tomorrow.”
Viz One 8.1 is available now. Learn more at: https://www.vizrt.com/products/viz-one/
