OOONA, a provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that Andrew Garb has joined the company as Global Account Manager for the OOONA Integrated platform.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that its flagship OOONA Integrated product was selected as the platform of choice by media localizer JustRightSubs to support its growth plans.

Finesse Services has selected the OOONA Integrated platform. Finesse is entering the next phase of its growth by expanding its services to include translation work in multiple Asian and European languages. The company delivers diversified media services that enable content owners, content creators and service providers to produce, manage and repurpose media with increased efficiency and at lower cost. “It is a great time to be in the video localization market, as audiovisual content is expanding globally,” says Rajnish Babbar, CEO of Finesse. “The security OOONA Integrated offers has been indispensable to our growth as we target some of the largest content owners and language service providers globally. In the last few months we have transitioned our workflows and processes to the OOONA platform which has quickly become the backbone of our operations.”

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that UK-based start-up FooEngine has integrated the OOONA Convert API into its media processing platform.

FooEngine is a media logistics company that provides cloud-based audio/video processing and digital packaging, tailored for the media and entertainment industry.

OOONA has formed a technology partnership with PBT EU. The latter specializes in the broadcast and media market with a host of hardware and software product solutions for broadcast playout and localization services.

The two companies acknowledge the complementary nature of their solutions for the media localization market and will now be offering some of each other’s products. OOONA’s suite of web-based Tools for subtitling and captioning will be integrated in PBT EU’s NEXT-TT management platform and SubtitleNEXT Live, a state-of-the-art desktop software for the creation and delivery of live subtitles and captions, will be made available to OOONA’s customers.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announces that Blu Digital Group has integrated the OOONA toolkit inside its proprietary platform, BluConductor™.

OOONA announces that The Kitchen has chosen OOONA’s Integrated solution to run its media localization workflows.

The Kitchen is an Emmy Award-winning media services company with studios in 14 countries across the globe. With over two decades in the business, The Kitchen has worked on thousands of high-profile subtitling, dubbing, game localization and anime projects, building a reputation for consistent quality, and has garnered exceptional brand recognition worldwide.

The Poool, an independent reference directory of media localization professionals, announced today that it is adding a certification component to its platform. The Poool platform has been developed by OOONA, a global provider of management and production tools for the media localization industry, and is backed by multiple industry stakeholders.

Long defined by elaborate sets and busy craft service tables, Hollywood film and video production has gone virtual over the past two years, fueled by pandemic concerns, the need to accelerate delayed production, and the insatiable consumer demand for new content. Survey data, released today by Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) consulting firm Altman Solon, found that almost 70% of industry respondents anticipate expanding virtual production, and more than 60% will increase their use of remote collaboration tools and cloud-based technologies even after the pandemic has ended.

GoSub, Ooona’s media localization training services arm, has appointed Prof. Jorge Díaz-Cintas and Dr. Yota Georgakopoulou to board as consultants. Their role is to help the division expand and offer training in new languages and audiovisual localization practices.

Ooona will demonstrate the latest refinements to its flagship Ooona Integrated media localization platform at the April 23rd through 27th 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Centers of attention on Ooona booth C3122 will be the Ooona Mobile App, an expanded user interface now available in 12-languages, support for Japanese timed text editing, plus a host of API integrations to management systems and language technology platforms from selected partners.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that VRT has signed a contract for a multi-year license of the OOONA Integrated platform.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, has decided to localize the user interface of its popular online toolkit for the creation and handling of timed text assets for the media and entertainment industry.

SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Entertainment Technology Center, a department within the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (ETC), an entertainment technology think tank and research center. The memo supports a partnership between the two organizations to collaborate on a SMPTE solution for on-set virtual production (OSVP) — the first in the Society's planned series of Rapid Industry Solutions (RIS) intended to address quickly evolving technologies and their application across the media and entertainment industry.

OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, reports a successful 2021 with steadily increasing demand for its unified range of products across the entire broadcast and web-based media market. The year has seen accelerating customer migration from desktop software to cloud-connected services, giving localization providers the freedom to work remotely and encouraging team cooperation.