InBroadcast - October 2022 - 57

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 12 - Issue 10 | October 2022
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InMedia
How Deduplicating Your Content Library
Can Reduce Your Cloud Storage
Footprint by 70% or More
QC
Ateliere Connect
With Arjun Ramamurthy,
Global Chief Technology Officer
at Ateliere Creative Technologies...
F
ootage assembly, editing, postproduction,
and distribution are
increasingly online - often remote
-
activities,
but
as
production
companies, VFX vendors, and
distributors
are finding, such
workflows come with a host of their
own problems. When it comes to
managing media assets efficiently,
moving (and managing) your entire
content library into the cloud is a
heavy lift.
You're never just
storing and
managing a single content file for
every
show or film. Compliance
and localization require a unique
version of each title, and when
it's time
to release or broadcast
your content, you'll have to deliver
assets to dozens, hundreds, or even
thousands of distribution partners.
Put simply, the content quite literally
multiplies.
Those deliveries will need versions
in multiple languages. Depending on
the downstream media, you'll need
timing cuts for commercials or other
time-based constraints. You'll need
multiple
cuts
to satisfy
territorial
classification compliance, often
contradictory and all very different.
Storing that many media assets
and managing the delivery of them
to the right partner at the right time
is a complicated, time-consuming,
and expensive task... One that many
media asset management systems
struggle to cope with.
Automate content
deduplication to reduce
storage footprint and costs
A video file for a given territory
might be exactly the same as the file
for another, apart from text subtitles.
Or local classification laws might
mandate that an offensive billboard
in the background in just one scene
be slightly blurred.
In both examples, traditional
platforms would require storage of
two entire video files that are almost
exactly
the same, dramatically
increasing your storage and transport
costs.
What
if
you could
consolidate
media across versions and isolate
the (often filesize-light) differences
for individual action?
Ateliere deduplication technology
that, letting
does
exactly
you
package and deliver data to as many
partners as you like, while reducing
your cloud storage footprint by 70
percent or more.
Ateliere Connect is a media
supply chain solution, with a key
differentiator being our unique
workflow capability and proprietary
machine learning technology called
Deep Analysis / FrameDNA, a Best
of Show award winner at IBC2022.
Comparing each frame in two video
files, it
isolates
the differences,
consolidating versions and reducing
storage needs only
that require action.
for the frames
lays
then
the footage out
as a series of clips in a
user-friendly, timelinestyle
interface, giving
the operator the means
to approve or reject
comparisons
individually or in bulk,
or leaving the decision
to the system,
where
rules-based
procedures
perform the comparison
assessment automatically.
Either way, the result is
the retention or deletion
of clips based on the differences the
user needs to action and the saving
of
potentially
vast
data storage
needs.
The clips can then be consolidated
into Interoperable Master Format
(IMF) packages, which assemble
versions into Composition Playlists
(CPL). When the work's
been
done and the various versions for
language, compliance or timing are
ready, the CPLs can be used as inputs
to prepare the final file for delivery,
without the need to store multiple
copies of the asset that are virtually
identical.
Cut down on quality
control time, too
Of course, in this day and age it's
not enough to give your partners
a thumbs up and click " go. " They
need to refer to verifiable quality
control standards so that file fidelity,
picture quality, and countless other
compliance standards are met across
the entire supply chain.
Sometimes
it's
an editor or
Improve Quality Control
while cutting down the
time spent on QC
personnel
sometimes
it's
with automated
either
and
imposes
actually
viewing the footage
and
audio manually,
done
QC
using established tools.
Sometimes a mere spot
check, where an operator
carries out a 3-5 point
check, is sufficient.
But it can't be avoided,
it
an
inevitable, hard-tonegotiate
cost on media
businesses. If you have
a 90-minute movie in
English and
French and
require
Spanish
versions, you're up for
three fixed-time (and flat-fee, in the
case of a service provider) QC checks
no matter what. Even if your QC
system is automated, the software
still has to inspect three full-fat,
separate files.
Now imagine
you've produced
CPLs for the French and Spanish
versions, knowing that
only
the
frames containing subtitles will be
different. Your QC cost will be fixed
for the English version, but now the
operator (or QC software) only needs
to inspect the unique frames in the
other two
versions, dramatically
lowering the time and costs to check
them individually and the QC cost
across the project overall.
Ateliere Connect
lets
you work
faster and more nimbly, finally
unlocking the true potential of cloud
storage.
Calculate how much
you can save
Ateliere has developed a calculator
that helps customers identify and
quantify just how much they can
reduce their cloud storage footprint.
Simple to use, users can calculate by
total hours or by episodic and feature
information for ProRes 422, XDCAM,
and J2K.
If you have duplicate files, use our
Ateliere Connect Deep Analysis / FrameDNA
IMF Dashboard
calculator to see how much you can
reduce your storage footprint and
costs by today! https://ateliere.com/
deduplication-calculator
Visit Ateliere Creative Technologies
at NAB NY on Booth #1629.
https://ateliere.com
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