Picture this: content volumes are growing, engineers are drowning in routine tasks, and the risk of broadcasting defective video keeps increasing. Sound familiar? This is exactly the challenge we faced when a major VoD service reached out to us.

The Problem: When Manual Work Becomes a Bottleneck

Initially, the client had a classic content preparation workflow:

Input storage — where master files from content providers and the internal studio landed

VoD transcoder — transcoded files into multiple profiles and saved them to intermediate storage

Packager — packaged the ready profiles for publication

Sounds logical, but there was a problem: the system operated in manual or semi-automatic mode.…