Overview

Today, Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the way people look at information collection and distribution. Easier uploading, targeted sharing, and enhanced accessibility of content have had organizations realize how imperative it is to power their content with advanced media processing capabilities.

 

VIDIZMO offers you AI-powered visual and audio insights for smarter analysis and search optimization using ARM-based Azure Media Indexer. To learn more about its offerings, see Understanding Video Insights.



Note: This article is dedicated to the process of configuring video insights using ARM-based Azure Media Analyzer. For the Classic Azure Media Analyzer, click here.

Moreover, Microsoft is discontinuing support for Azure Media Analyzer Classic later in 2023. Read more on the update here at the Microsoft Azure website.


Here is how you may configure video insights in your VIDIZMO portal:


Before you start

  • Make sure you log into your VIDIZMO Portal as an Administrator or Manager to be able to configure video insights in VIDIZMO Portal.
  • Make sure you have an Azure subscription to avail ARM-based Azure Media Services for video indexer.


Video Indexer Configuration

1. Use this tutorial to understand the prerequisites and steps while connecting your video indexer account with Azure. 

2. You can connect your Video Indexer to Azure subscription manually. see: Connect to Azure.


Register an app with Azure Active Directory


In Arm-based authentication, we use Azure AD App to access the video indexer service.   see: Register an app

 

You will receive a brief notification after a successful connection.

 

Note: Make sure your Video Indexer account region is the same as the one you chose while setting up a storage and media service account in Azure, otherwise, the connection may fail to establish.

 

Provide permission to Azure video Indexer registered app

From the portal.azure.com. 

 

  1. Open Azure Video Indexer

         2. Go to access control (IAM) and Click on Add Role Assignment


           3. Select the Contributor role from the given list, and press next.



           4. Click on Select Members from the role assignment screen.


            

            5. Search and select the Azure AD App you want to give access to.




            6. Click on Review+assign



Note: To avoid any authentication issues, follow the same steps for media service and storage accounts associated with the Azure Video Indexer.


 

VIDIZMO Portal Configuration


To enable ARM-based Azure Video Indexer services in VIDIZMO and incorporate enhanced video insights and transcription capabilities into your Portal, follow these steps:


1. From the Portal's Homepage:

  1. Click on the Menu icon in the top left-hand corner to open the left navigation pane.
  2. Expand the Admin section by clicking on the down arrow.
  3. Select Portal Settings to open the Portal Settings navigation panel.




2. From the Portal Settings navigation pane:

  1. Within the Portal Settings section, navigate to the Apps option and expand the list of available application services for integration.
  2. Select Content Processing, which is where you can set up an ARM-based Azure Video Indexer.
  3. Click on the settings icon next to ARM-based Azure Video Indexer to connect its app to VIDIZMO and enable its services in your portal.



3. From the ARM-based Azure Video Indexer - Settings screen:

    i. Enter or paste the following information in ARM-based Azure Video Analyzer - Settings from 

  1. Tenant ID
  2. Application ID
  3. Client Secret, 
  4. Subscription ID
  5. Resource Group
  6. Account Name
  7. Azure Region


Note: The Region of your Video Indexer account must be correct. Otherwise, the Video Insights will not be generated. 

         

        8. Source Content Language


Note: Auto-detect multi-language will detect the spoken language automatically, so you will not have to specify the source content language. Auto Detect Support Nine Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazilian).   


        9. Insights Translation

       10. AI Insights


Note: There are four indexing presets available in AI Insights:


AudioOnly: It will index and extract insights based on audio (will ignore video)


BasicAudio: It will extract insights using basic audio features (transcription, translation, subtitles, captions)


Default: It will use both audio and video to extract insights


VideoOnly: It will index and extract insights based on video (will ignore audio)


    11. Select the Insight(s) that you wish to extract and display from the video

    12. Enable this check if you wish to run the processing based on the requirement from the media manager. To learn more            about it read Understanding On-demand AI Processing

     13. Click on the Save Changes button to save all the configurations 




 

Tenant ID can be copied from Azure Active Directory see: Overview Tab

 

Name, Resource Group and Subscription ID can be copied from Azure Video Indexer Overview page see: Overview Tab



Client Secret can be copied from the Certificate & Secrets see: Certificates & secrets


Inside your application, click on ‘Certificates & Secrets’.

  1. If you see the client secret is about to expire, then click on ‘New client secret’



     2. Add description and set the expiration date to 24 months (or the maximum allowed time)





Note: Copy the Secret Value immediately as this value will be hidden if page reloads. Proceed to adding this to key-vault.



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