Moments Lab and LucidLink are taking their partnership to the next level for the 78th Cannes Film Festival, integrating Moments Lab's advanced MXT-2 AI engine with LucidLink's enhanced cloud collaboration platform to power global media brand Brut's festival coverage from May 13-24, 2025.

The Director's Cut: MXT-2 transforms how video teams identify and utilize footage

The latest evolution in Moments Lab's AI technology brings sophisticated video understanding capabilities that streamline the production process while enhancing creative possibilities.

• MXT-2 generates rich, time-coded natural language descriptions of footage, allowing teams to instantly identify compelling scenes and classify themes

• The AI model has been trained on over 1.5 billion images and outperforms Google Research's VidSeq by 47% on video sequencing

• New features include Custom Moments and Custom Insights, enabling teams to generate editorial content directly from video footage

• The technology received two awards at NAB 2025, validating its innovation in the media production space

Cloud Collaboration Reframed: LucidLink's platform eliminates traditional file-sharing bottlenecks

LucidLink's latest platform upgrades focus on accessibility and seamless workflows that remove technical barriers to creative collaboration across locations.

• New enterprise-ready features include mobile apps for iOS and Android and web-based file browsing

• Dynamic tiering for storage management optimizes costs without sacrificing performance

• Direct integration with AWS S3 expands storage options for large media projects

• The platform eliminates the need for downloads or file syncing, providing instant access to large media files from anywhere

• Like Moments Lab, LucidLink's technology was twice awarded at NAB 2025

VP Land sat down with LucidLink’s Gergana Berman at NAB to discuss the latest platform upgrades.

Festival Production At Speed: Brut leverages integrated AI and cloud tools to transform global content delivery

Building on previous success, this technology partnership enables Brut to coordinate teams across continents while maintaining the immediacy required for festival coverage.

• Brut's production teams in Paris, New York, and New Delhi will collaborate in real-time on festival coverage

• MXT-2's AI capabilities help quickly identify key moments from extensive festival footage

• LucidLink's collaboration tools enable immediate access to footage for editing across all locations

• The integrated solution addresses the challenge of creating timely, relevant content under the tight deadlines of festival coverage

• As an official media partner of Cannes Film Festival, Brut's implementation showcases real-world application at scale

Final Reel: This technology partnership signals a fundamental shift in how global media events will be covered

The Moments Lab and LucidLink integration represents a glimpse into the future of media production workflows, particularly for time-sensitive event coverage where speed and quality cannot be compromised.

This collaboration demonstrates how AI-powered content analysis combined with frictionless cloud collaboration can transform traditional production pipelines. Media teams no longer need to choose between being on-location or having access to full production capabilities. Instead, the technology enables a distributed approach where footage captured at Cannes can be simultaneously accessed, analyzed, and transformed into finished content by team members anywhere in the world.

As more media organizations face pressure to deliver compelling content across multiple platforms in near real-time, solutions that combine intelligent content discovery with seamless collaboration will become essential production tools rather than optional enhancements. Industry professionals should watch how Brut leverages this technology at Cannes as a blueprint for future high-profile event coverage.