x-dream-Fabrik Evolves: Announcing New Ingest, Playout, and AI-Driven Features

1. Advanced Ingest & Live Production Capabilities

Efficient workflows start at the very beginning of the media lifecycle. We have introduced major enhancements to ensure seamless acquisition of your live and file-based media assets.

• Ingest Module (Available Now): Managing your incoming assets is now smoother than ever. The fully deployed Ingest Module offers robust end-to-end ingest workflow management. This includes automated transcoding upon arrival and integrated enhancement workflows—such as automated metadata enrichment—to make sure your media is production-ready instantly.
• Live Recording Support (Available Now): For fast-paced environments, x-dream-Fabrik now officially supports live recording via SDI and SMPTE 2110 standards, ensuring reliable, high-quality stream capture into your central asset storage.
• Studio & Live Production Integration (Roadmap): To further bridge the gap between live operations and software orchestration, we are building deep integrations with Ross and Blackmagic studio production environments. Soon, users will be able to control Ross systems directly from the Squared Paper interface within the x-dream-Fabrik ecosystem.

2. Next-Generation Playout Solutions

Monetizing content via live programming and linear streaming requires highly reliable execution. We are expanding our PLAYOUT module with powerful infrastructure options.

• Skylark Playout Engine (Available Now): The integration of the Skylark Playout Engine is fully complete, providing an incredibly reliable, flexible stream-encoding and scheduling core for linear programming.
• Matrox-Based Playout Module (Roadmap): For customers requiring hardware-accelerated or SDI-heavy environments, a dedicated Playout module based on Matrox technology is firmly placed on our upcoming development roadmap.

3. The AI Hub Development: Shaping the Future of News & Production

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just an optional add-on; it is an core engine for media efficiency. Following intense development through our AI Hub Development Phase (October 2025 - January 2026), we successfully launched the Alpha version in January.

The underlying AI architecture is set to revolutionize how editorial teams interact with their media assets. Moving forward, this foundation will fuel our upcoming AI-Powered Editorial Workflow features, including:

• Integrated Chat in Story Workflows: Editorial and news teams can collaborate alongside an embedded, context-aware AI assistant to brainstorm, draft, and refine scripts directly inside the story workflow.
• Editorial Workflow Monitoring Panel: Gain real-time, high-level visibility over your ongoing content pipelines, tracking how assets move from ingestion through AI processing to final publishing.
• "Wizard View" within the Editorial Board: This upcoming view will guide journalists through complex tasks using AI-assisted workflows—making cross-media publishing and social media adaptation easier than ever.
• Deep Editing Integration: Direct integration of AI capabilities within the timeline and rough-cut editing phases to minimize tedious manual trimming and metadata tagging.

Ready to Experience the Newest x-dream-Fabrik?

Whether you are looking to deploy on-premises, completely in the cloud, or as a hybrid system, x-dream-Fabrik continues to break down the walls of traditional, monolithic software. With its unique microservices architecture, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and customizable, role-based user interface, managing your entire content supply chain has never been this efficient.

Want to see the new Ingest and Playout modules in action or get an exclusive look at our AI Hub developments?

Contact the x-dream-group team today to book a customized demo.