Case Study: Festival de Cannes achieves rapid, automated web video encoding and delivery with Telestream’s Episode Engine

Festival de Cannes Finds an Elegant Web Video Solution in Telestream’s Episode Encoding Software

Festival de Cannes faced a growing web-video workload—trailers, clips and multilingual TV Festival coverage that needed conversion into multiple resolutions and bitrates for online viewing and press download. Their prior Mac-to-PC, one-by-one encoding and manual FTP upload process was slow and fragmented, so the web team sought a single Mac-compatible solution that could accept original formats, encode multiple outputs simultaneously and automate delivery.

They implemented Telestream’s Episode Engine on a five‑node Mac Pro cluster using watch folders, which enabled concurrent processing, automated FTP uploads and centralized monitoring (with responsive Telestream support during setup). The new workflow cut turnaround dramatically—example: a 40‑minute press conference encoded into six formats and uploaded in under 30 minutes—allowing the team to publish highlights within hours of the closing ceremony and refocus effort on editing and content quality.

Festival de Cannes

Anthony Verpoort

Video Project Manager, Official Website