Picture this: content volumes are growing, engineers are drowning in routine tasks, and the risk of broadcasting defective video keeps increasing. Sound familiar? This is exactly the challenge we faced when a major VoD service reached out to us. The Problem: When Manual Work Becomes a Bottleneck Initially, the client had a classic content preparation workflow: Input storage — where master files from content providers and the internal studio landed VoD transcoder — transcoded files into multiple profiles and saved them to intermediate storage Packager — packaged the ready profiles for publication Sounds logical, but there was a problem: the system operated in manual or semi-automatic mode. The transcoder ran in watch folder mode, and quality control was performed selectively and manually.…