Dalet Launches New Flex LTS Release

Dalet has unveiled the latest Long-Term Supported (LTS) release of its Dalet Flex platform, introducing new artificial intelligence capabilities, workflow automation and production tools designed to help media organisations manage content more efficiently from ingest through to distribution.

Announced on 9 July, the new release builds on the company's recent investments in usability, AI services and workflow modernisation, expanding intelligent automation across every stage of the media lifecycle. The update is designed to help broadcasters and other media organisations accelerate production, streamline operations and improve control over increasingly complex workflows.

The release comes as media companies face growing pressure to deliver more content across multiple platforms with smaller teams and tighter resources. Dalet says the latest version of Flex addresses these challenges through expanded AI-powered media intelligence, workflow automation and deeper integration with Dalia, the company's media-aware agentic AI platform.

"Dalet Flex is the operational backbone for modern media organisations," said Erwan Kerfourn, Head of Product for Dalet Flex. "This release advances the level of intelligent capabilities customers can access across their workflows, enabling them to achieve greater efficiencies and new ways of working using Dalia as a practical part of their everyday media operations."

The update also introduces new security and content acquisition features, including support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication to strengthen enterprise identity management and user security. Enhancements to the Ingest Portal provide role-based permissions for administrators, alongside improved scheduling, multi-time-zone visibility, FIFO scheduling for Dalet Brio and expanded format support, including DNxHD for the Flex encoder.

Dalet has also expanded the platform's embedded AI capabilities, enabling organisations to automatically enrich media assets as they enter production. Advanced vision models are integrated directly into the Dalet Flex infrastructure, allowing the platform to generate descriptive metadata, identify objects, recognise emotional context and perform content moderation analysis without transferring media to external AI services.

The AI-generated metadata is surfaced within Dalet Flex through timeline-based metadata and asset views, helping users improve content discovery, searchability and long-term asset management while reducing manual logging and indexing.

Creative teams also benefit from new editing and distribution features. Updates to Dalet Cut include automated background blur for vertical video, subject-tracking blur to protect identities and sensitive information, improved text positioning and enhanced image adjustment controls such as brightness and saturation.

The release further simplifies content preparation for distribution through updated workflow wizards, new caption burn-in capabilities within Dalet Flex Stream Processing and expanded media format support, allowing accessibility and compliance tasks to be integrated into automated delivery workflows.

A key feature of the release is the expanded integration with Dalia, enabling organisations to expose any workflow within their Dalet Flex environment to the AI platform through configuration rather than custom development. Users can initiate workflows using natural language, with Dalia automatically identifying available workflows, prompting for required variables and guiding users through operational processes ranging from media processing and metadata enrichment to packaging, review and content delivery.

According to Dalet, the latest Flex LTS release is designed to embed intelligence directly into everyday media operations while maintaining the governance, transparency and operational control required by professional production environments.

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