Tag: video

  • Desperately seek()ing S3 Mountpoints

    Context: images.nasa.gov metadata In our work on images.nasa.gov, we extract metadata from image, video, and audio files to make them searchable. Some of these files can be quite large, especially the 4K video files we’re seeing now.  The entire site runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with our media files stored on S3 object storage,…

  • V! Studios Wins 2020 Communicator Award of Distinction for Online Video

    V! Studios has received a 2020 Communicator Award of Distinction for its online video series, NASA ScienceCasts. The NASA ScienceCast series highlights scientific research and discoveries, keeping audiences informed, advancing understanding, and bringing wonder through animation and visualizations.  The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), an…

  • V! Studios Receives Nomination for a 2018 Emmy® Award

    V! Studios has received a nomination for a 2018 Emmy® Award for its work on the NASA ScienceCasts episode, “Two Sides of the Same Star.” The NASA ScienceCast series highlights scientific research and discoveries, keeping audiences informed, advancing understanding, and bringing wonder through animation and visualizations.  “Two Sides of the Same Star” explores the nature…

  • Accessing NASA Digital Media Now Easier With New Library Search Engine

    TYSONS, VA (PRWEB) MARCH 28, 2017 By leveraging cloud computing and storage capabilities, V! Studios developed a highly scalable, cost efficient multimedia library for NASA at images.nasa.gov, which officially launched to the public on March 28, 2017. NASA, like many other government agencies, is challenged with compiling, archiving, and retrieving massive amounts of digitized content. Prior to this…