How SkillShow automates youth sports video processing using Amazon Transcribe

This post is co-written with Tom Koerick from SkillShow.

The youth sports market was valued at $37.5 billion globally in 2022 and is projected to grow by 9.2% each year through 2030. Approximately 60 million young athletes participate in this market worldwide. SkillShow, a leader in youth sports video production, films over 300 events yearly in the youth sports industry, creating content for over 20,000 young athletes annually. This post describes how SkillShow used Amazon Transcribe and other Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning (ML) services to automate their video processing workflow, reducing editing time and costs while scaling their operations.

Challenge

In response to the surge in youth sports video production, manual video editing processes are becoming increasingly unsustainable. Since 2001, SkillShow has been at the forefront of sports video production, providing comprehensive video services for individuals, teams, and event organizers. They specialize in filming, editing ...