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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]