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Scenarios and Requirements for postproduction, distribution and customization in a virtual film factory

editor — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:47:40 +0000

The complete digitalization of audiovisual media is converging towards a scenario of an entire virtual workflow from film production to exhibition.

This document proposes important points of communication among the various technical processes involved in a complete virtual audiovisual production, and describes the requirements for articulating metadata between the various states of media in a Virtual Film Factory.

D4.3.1:Prototype of first enhanced existing application

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:56:28 +0000

The conform process is an essential part of post production, and provides both an excellent test case for a metadatabase driven workflow and a basis for the development of the concept of the virtual film factory. A new conform prototype within the existing Baselight application was developed to explore the benefits and optimal architecture for a distributed metadatabase. A comparison with the current state-of-the-art shows the scope for parallelism in the new approach as well as the benefit of pre-processing metadata like the frame rate, derived from image file sequences rather than individual files, a calculation currently performed with considerable overhead. Many opportunities present themselves to exploit the vast performance improvements for enhancements of the non-linear finishing process as a whole, from late in-context decision making to more flexible versioning and a more interactive creative environment.

D4.1.2:Prototype versions of the browser/viewer tools

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:55:17 +0000

The prototype version of a metadatabase driven browser/viewer is described, including its architecture within a distributed image server environment. Taking advantage of instant access to content metadata, the high i/o and processing bandwidth of the image and the wide scope for parallelism, it is possible to use the visual representation of lists of shots in a timeline or gallery as an effective tool to directly select, manage, review, compare and process the underlying content.This document needs to be read in conjunction with D3.2.1 (Initial API and Metadatabase Middleware Specification) and D4.3.1 (Prototype of first enhanced existing application) and seen with reference to D2.1.1(Scenarios and Requirements for postproduction, distribution and customization in a virtual film factory).

D3.2.1:Initial API and Metadatabase Middleware Specification

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:53:59 +0000

The metadatabase – a metadata centric alternative access method to the audiovisual content stored on a general-purpose filesystem – provides a powerful basis for managing and searching large volumes of distributed files typically found in a post-production environment. The architecture of the metadatabase allows a reliable and robust representation of the underlying filesystem in real time without compromising its integrity, access and performance. An initial API is defined, providing a convenient method to build content management and image processing applications on top of it, exploiting the vast improvements in performance derived from operating on aggregated sequence metadata.

D4.1.1:First prototype of the graphic engine supporting the iMP architecture

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:01:24 +0000

This deliverable presents an overview of the initial adaptation of UPF’s existing 3D graphics framework for use with the putative iMP architecture. The novel work for this deliverable centered on the creation of a system for real-time streaming of video sequences, stored in a local database, as textures to various objects within a 3D environment. The work in this deliverable was presented at ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) 2009, Athens, Greece. The deliverable consists of an introduction, some technical details about the implementation, and finally some screenshots.