Frequently Asked Questions
Nomad Media unifies your media workflow from content import to distribution, so teams move faster with fewer tools.
Yes. Nomad Media supports easy bulk upload capabilities. The platform allows you to drag-and-drop entire content libraries directly into the system. Nomad Media's cloud-based infrastructure automatically handles the upload process and can manage assets regardless of size, with automatic storage scaling to accommodate your growing library.
The platform supports multiple file formats for video, audio, documents, and images, making it simple to migrate entire asset libraries at once. During bulk uploads, Nomad Media automatically begins processing assets with AI analysis, metadata enrichment, and proxy generation—so your content becomes searchable immediately after upload.
Yes. Nomad Media provides robust filtering and sorting capabilities to refine search results. Filtering capabilities include:
Advanced filtering: Multiple filter options to narrow results
Category filters: Filter by content categories and collections
Cross-station filtering: Refined search and discovery across multiple stations
Yes. Nomad Media provides granular content search capabilities that locate specific moments within videos at the timecode level. You can search for:
Specific people: Using facial recognition to identify individuals appearing in videos
Objects and scenes: Visual elements detected through AI object recognition
Spoken words and phrases: Every word is transcribed and searchable through audio transcription
On-screen text: Text detection captures visible text within video frames
Audio bites: Specific audio segments or spoken contentSearch results show the exact timecode where content appears, allowing you to jump directly to relevant moments rather than reviewing entire videos.
For live video streams, Nomad Media can analyze content in near real-time (3-10 second latency) and tag moments as they're captured.
Yes. The Live Experience platform allows you to share channels to multiple platforms including YouTube, Facebook Live, organizational platforms, and syndication websites.
Yes. Nomad Media includes versioning and backup capabilities as part of its management tools. The platform maintains version history for your assets, allowing you to track changes over time.
Additionally, Nomad Media provides native data backup and recovery features, ensuring that your content is protected and previous versions can be restored if needed. This is particularly important for organizations that need to maintain audit trails or comply with regulatory requirements for content tracking.
For people: Yes. Face detection starts by "training" faces as they are uploaded to Nomad and cataloged by AWS Rekognition. You use the Nomad interface to give a name to each group of similar faces. The system creates unique face "thumbprints" that are stored only in your account, and you map those thumbprints to names. This training data stays exclusively in your account and never leaves.
For specific terminology: Yes, to an extent. Nomad Media can utilize specialized models for domain-specific terminology. For example, models can be trained to be highly proficient at identifying medical terminology from audio tracks. These models follow two tracks: generic and specific. However, it's important to note that Nomad Media uses pre-trained models from sources like Hugging Face rather than training custom models on your content.
Yes. Nomad Media uses audio-to-text models to automatically generate subtitles and captions from the audio track of your videos. The platform has been using audio-to-text models for many years for subtitle creation. Additionally, through Generative AI text summarization, you can automatically create caption information, chapters, and annotations for videos. For large video and audio libraries, this capability provides accurate descriptions without manual transcription work.
Yes. Nomad Media delivers universal access to both cloud-hosted and on-premises assets in one place. You can manage assets across S3 buckets, Glacier archives, and on-premises storage from a single browser interface. The platform includes automatic S3 synchronization and requires no installation of agents on your workstations—just log into Nomad Media through your browser and start working.
Yes. Nomad Media's Content Portal enables external user access with granular permission controls. Access control features include:
User permissions and roles: Administrative controls determine what content users can access and search
Guest contributor approval: Administrators can approve external guest contributors
Content-level and asset-level security: Permissions can be set at both the content and individual asset levels
Role-based security: Different roles can have different search and viewing permissions
Single Sign-On (SSO) support: Integration with existing authentication systems via SAML and OAuth 2.0
Yes. Nomad's platform automatically handles live-to-VOD conversion, allowing you to save and distribute any live recording stream. The Event Scheduler can schedule recordings of live shows for re-broadcast and simulcast. The platform also includes S3 Glacier Archive Integration for maximum cost savings when archiving assets long-term.
Yes. Nomad Media’s Content Portal is a customizable and brandable front-end client UI that offers:
- Custom Branded UI/UX with custom profile pictures, banner images, and color schemes
- Vanity URL support Full Player Controls including in-page, full-screen, and pop-out viewing options
- Multi-Device Support and cross-platform delivery
AWS maintains excellent public documentation of their compliance with standards (see the links above). Nomad Media maintains business documentation to support its own compliance with standards, such as an information security policy, background checks, Nomad Media system documentation, etc.
Yes, Nomad Media supports SSO integrations, including, but not limited to:
- SAML Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 Support
- Okta
- AWS Cognito
This is the key question for all customers under compliance requirements. The answer is "Amazon Web Services actively meets comprehensive industry standards. Nomad Media's value is in providing the way for your company to use AWS without a laborious and expensive development effort devoted to that purpose".
Just request a demo! The button is on the top and bottom of every page. We'll be happy to listen to your company's needs and help you map them to the support provided by AWS and Nomad Media. (The demo also includes a walkthrough of the Nomad Platform, and we highly recommend taking a look to see how much value we bring to your use of AWS.)
Nomad Media provides comprehensive security and permission management through multiple layers of access control:
Role-Based Security: The platform includes role-based security settings that allow administrators to assign different permission levels to users based on their roles within your organization.
Granular Permission Control: Nomad Media offers robust granular permission control at both the content and asset level, meaning you can set specific access permissions for individual files or entire content collections. Security can be controlled at the folder level and file level.
Authentication Options: The platform supports SAML authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), OAuth 2.0, and Okta integration for enterprise-grade identity management.
Asset Manager: Nomad Media's Asset Manager includes associated user security management tools that allow administrators to easily and securely manage who can access specific content within your media library.
This multi-layered approach keeps sensitive content accessible only to authorized users—critical for organizations like government agencies and corporations handling confidential material.
Nomad Media uses AI-powered search built on Amazon OpenSearch Service to search across your entire media library. Search capabilities include:Natural language queries: Ask questions in plain English using Generative AI without needing to know exact tags or terminology.
Boolean search: Use advanced query syntax across multiple sources.
AI-generated metadata search: Search content by automatically generated tags including facial recognition, object detection, spoken words, text detection, labels and categories.
Timecode-level precision: For videos, search results identify exact moments down to the timecode.
Real-time indexing: New content becomes immediately searchable upon upload.
Multi-source search: Search across multiple stations, locations, or asset libraries simultaneously (referenced in news organization use case).
The platform uses AWS AI services including Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Transcribe to automatically analyze and index content, making it searchable without manual tagging.
Nomad Media uses AI-powered intelligence to automatically organize your content. The platform enriches metadata, tags assets, and uses object recognition to transform unorganized libraries into intelligently searchable, contextually aware collections. Content can be organized into collections with contextual labels, and during migration, Nomad Media preserves your existing folder structure for full cataloging.
For live and scheduled content, Nomad Media enables dynamic programming through Intelligent Playlists that organize content based on search criteria, and Intelligent Scheduling that maps content to time-based schedules. The platform also supports manual tagging, bulk tagging, and custom content organization to fit your specific workflow needs.
On-demand clips can happen instantly—in fact, you don’t even have to wait for the event to end to create a clip and share it with your audience.
Nomad Media's Quick Start Program delivers rapid deployment using industry-specific templates tailored for live events, VOD, and content discovery. With pre-built solutions and hands-on engineering support, organizations can launch a fully operational platform on Day 1—no lengthy implementation cycles required.
Nomad Media offers comprehensive AI capabilities powered by AWS services including Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Transcribe. Core capabilities include face detection and person recognition, audio-to-text transcription for subtitle and caption generation, image-to-text analysis that generates labels and concepts from video frames, text detection, content moderation to identify adult or sensitive material, and intelligent search using Large Language Models. The platform also enables automatic summarization of long-form content, media refinement and modification through text prompts, and both cloud-based and edge-based live video analysis with real-time alerting.
AI-powered metadata refers to the information that Nomad Media's Generative AI automatically creates about your content. Instead of manually tagging and describing media, the AI analyzes your content and generates metadata including labels (objects like "basketball," "chair," or "car"), concepts (themes like "concert," "gambling," or "friendship"), face recognition tags with person names at the timecode level, transcripts and subtitles from audio tracks, text extracted from images (like license plates), content moderation flags, automatic summaries, and chapter markers. This metadata makes your content searchable, discoverable, and more valuable for monetization. The AI uses a combination of audio-to-text and image-to-text models to create this comprehensive metadata package.
Nomad Media is a cloud-based media asset management platform that helps brands, broadcasters, and enterprises manage and distribute their growing content libraries. Built on AWS Media Services and AWS AI/ML, Nomad Media enables organizations to discover, manage, enrich, and distribute media content without complex integrations or organizational headaches. The platform combines intuitive content browsing, centralized asset management, live streaming capabilities, external system integration, and AI-powered content enrichment to turn scattered media assets into an organized, searchable library.
Nomad Media provides a full-featured live streaming platform that simplifies capturing, managing, and distributing live events. The platform supports a broad range of video sources, from internet-enabled cameras to dedicated on-prem video equipment like Amazon Elemental Link. You can create custom live-stream channels with one-click broadcast control, add pre- and post-roll assets, and automatically convert live streams to video-on-demand content. The platform includes mobile-optimized controls for real-time event management, automated scheduling for recurring programming, and the ability to distribute content through Amazon CloudFront's global network.
Nomad Media has developed an extensive library of software connectors for enterprise-level products, including:
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC
Newsroom Systems: iNews and ENPS, along with GrassValley Stratus and EditShare
Collaboration Tools: Zoom
Streaming & Delivery: Brightcove, AWS Elemental Link, WebRTC, Bitmovin
Production Tools: Videon Edgecaster
AWS Services: AWS Elemental Media Suite, Amazon CloudFront, AWS AI/ML Services (Transcribe, Translate, Rekognition, Comprehend, SageMaker)
Other Integrations: Media2Cloud, AirFrame technology for instant media access