2025.2 release: Summarisation, Assigning Tasks, Anonymisation of Comments, and Hotkeys

Ghent, Belgium, 25th February 2025 – With the 2025 NAB Show approaching, Limecraft is pleased to announce the release of the second in a series of eight major platform updates planned for this year. Building on Limecraft’s reputation as a leading innovator in media production and delivery workflows, the 2025.2 release introduces advanced AI features, improved content delivery tools developed in close collaboration with DPG Media, enhanced review and approval workflows, personalised user settings and extended file format support.

1. Summarisation – your best Production Assistant

As part of our continued efforts to improve the usability of Artificial Intelligence for professional use, also known as Media Intelligence, we now introduced ‘Summarisation’. Summarisation extends transcription. It uses a specific Large Language Model (LLM) implementation to process the transcript and other pre-existing applicable metadata, to create a synopsis of clip as a whole as well as a title, a short description, and a number of topics for each chapter or subclips.

The key benefit of the summarisation function is search efficiency. Using summarisation, you have unlimited processing capacity at your disposal for accurately describing and categorising the content of video material, allowing researchers to spot the right fragments and create shot list or sync pulls incredibly fast.

The summarisation feature is a great example of our commitment to the responsible use of AI. Not only the process is several times faster compared to manual work; more importantly it delivers a more complete and more consistent result. Ultimately, summarisation is an AI agent that behaves like a well trained production assistant. Not only it creates a succinct description of each clip and/or subclip; it will at the same time perform background checks and naturally correct small errors and complete missing data.

Important Note: Summarisation is currently available as a private beta feature, which means that Limecraft support staff must enable it. If you are interested to test it in one of your workspaces, please contact us. When enabled, Limecraft includes it as part of our premium transcription service at no extra cost.

💡More info on how to use Summarisation on the knowledge base.

2. Delivery Workspace – Assign Delivery and Review Tasks

The Delivery Workspace is a content portal intended to manage the complex order fulfilment process between producers and broadcasters, developed in collaboration with DPG Media in response to the increasing complexity and lack of structure of conventional content delivery processes. The Delivery Workspace is an innovative and turn-key solution that provides real-time interaction between producers, broadcasters, and 3rd parties, highly optimised for security, reliability, and efficiency.

💡If you are interested to get a better understanding of how you can use Delivery Workspaces to streamline your content delivery process, please check our white paper.

2.1 Client-specific Fields on Delivery Requests

The Delivery Workspace now supports client-specific fields on each deliverable or delivery request. Limecraft displays them as part of the “Request Info” tab. Users with “Manage Request” permission can edit the content of the fields. When editing a field, Limecraft saves them automatically.

The administration console does not allow you to configure these fields; the content delivery template defines the form fields instead, initialising them each time a Delivery Workspace is bootstrapped based on the template.

2.2 Assign Delivery and Review Tasks

Extending the concept of configurable form fields on deliverables, it is now possible to assign delivery request to a particular user or role expected to fulfil the request. Similarly, it is also possible to set the reviewer of a request to a particular user or role responsible for the review.

2.3 Looking up Tasks assigned to a Specific Person or Role

When assuming task assignments in your workspace, you can search for specific tasks assigned to a person  or role as follows. Doing so, as a supervisor, you can now keep track easily of the ongoing status of the order fulfilment process, also for complex content delivery processes with thousands of individual deliverables.

3. Extending the Review app with Sharing and Download

Limecraft’s review app and collaboration features allow creative teams to work together throughout the entire production and delivery processes.

When you are using the review app to annotate raw footage, collecting feedback, or seek verification of finished content, Limecraft enables you now to securely share media and comments with colleagues, partners, or clients. Using time-coded comments, version tracking, and configurable access rights, everyone is updated in real-time, without the hassle of file transfers or endless email threads. This ensures faster approvals, clearer communication, and more efficient collaboration—ultimately helping teams meet deadlines with confidence.

This 2025.2 release adds a number of important features to the already very rich verification functionality, including the ability to share material and comments from within the review app, the ability to download the media, and the ability to transfer comments to an existing MAM or PAM system.

3.1 Sharing and Download Functions in the Review App

Assuming you are using the review app to verify media assets, including managing the approval status and adding time-specific comments, you can access the share, download and transfer functions as illustrated below.

💡More info about sharing, reviewing and verification of media using Limecraft on the knowledge base.

3.2 Anonymisation of Comments

Besides the capability to share and download material from the review app, taking into account the multi-tenant nature of any collaborative environment, it is now possible to mask comments from identification, referred to as anonymisation of comments.

Anonymisation results in masking the person that wrote the comments. It is available as an option through the setup of new user roles without the ‘View Comment Creator’ permission. As a result, users without this permission will not see which user created a comment, instead they will see a label (if configured) role name (if not).

3.3 Transfer comments to your PAM or MAM system

As illustrated by the screenshot above, it is now possible as well to push all comments from Limecraft to your PAM or MAM system, if any. For example, at DPG Media and at ITV Studios Daytime, Limecraft assumes the role of file sharing solution whereas Avid MediaCentral implements the core of the Production Asset Management.

Capitalising on its design-for-integration, users of the Limecraft review app can now consistently exchange comments to their workspace in Avid with a single click of the button. As a result, Limecraft will created time-coded markers available to Avid users.

Important note: the integration with Avid requires proper setup. Please contact us for more info.

4. Introducing User Preferences, including Display Settings and Configurable Hotkeys

To enhance the user experience even further, as of this 2025.2 release we are introducing user-specific settings, extending account-level and workspace-level settings. User-level settings allow individual users to control the look-and-feel of the user interface. User level settings are accessible via the “Preferences” in the dropdown as illustrated below.

4.1 Player Settings

As a user, you can now modify how the player behaves and in particular what the step size is when using the step forward or step backward functions in the player.

4.2 Configurable Hotkeys

Also as part of the user-specific configuration, you can now customise the mapping of keyboard shortcuts according to your preferences. These settings also allow you to return to the default settings.

5. New File Format – Canon Cinema RAW Light

Filming in RAW gives you more options in post-production, but the file format used to be hard to handle. RAW recordings provide optimal control over image quality and allow for creative and technical decisions in post-processing. This flexibility usually comes at the expense of large file sizes, making storage and transfer of 4K RAW files on location and in the editing suite a challenge.

Thanks to Canon Cinema RAW Light, introduced with the release of the Canon EOS C200 video camera, file formats are smaller and easier to use, without hampering image quality.

As of this Limecraft release, Limecraft Edge now supports Canon Cinema RAW light as well.

More Info & Full Release Notes

To access the full release notes, which includes some additional enhancements not listed above, please click here.

As always, we look forward to receiving any feedback on this update. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@limcraft.com and we’ll be happy to help.