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YOUR COMPONENT-BASED FUTURE You may not be working with component-based workflows yet, but if you want to keep pace with a rapidly changing media industry, you will
component-based workflow explodes the old idea of distribution in which each individual version of a finished
piece of content (different formats, edits according to territories, language dubs) is produced as a single flattened file – and sent and stored as such. IMF is the first way of implementing component- based workflows for the moving image industry and is growing in importance – particularly with it being the mandated delivery format for Netflix – but the concept extends across many industries needing to access digital assets to create multiple versions of a final product. In the component-based world, versions are created by sets of instructions pointing to the individual files – or components – of the project (image, audio, subtitling, etc). Rather than baking every project into one big pie every time, component-based workflows allow each plate to be filled with a tapas approach – “I’ll have one of that, one of those and a little bit of this”. It’s flexible and light and obviates the need for endless versions of every project piling up in storage. Given the expanding number of versions of video content now required for multiple delivery platforms, regions and devices, going component-based makes sense for a company wanting to safeguard its business future. Adopting a component- based workflow tends to make a workflow much more efficient with a much more granular viewpoint. Instead of continuously
using a component-based approach I don’t have to work with a monolithic flattened video file any more, where I would need to go back to the source and re-render and re-conform. As I get subtitle updates from my localisation partner, I can then inject them into that component-based structure and easily generate the new deliverable.” And, of course, storage of all the multiple versions of content quickly becomes absurd. “If I want to keep 150 localisations available, then with an hour programme, I have 150 hours of content I have to manage, as opposed to an hour plus whatever the minutes are for the differentials of the versions I’m releasing,” explains Comeau.
VITAL COMPONENT A component-based workflow can help a company decrease costs and increase flexibility
moving around a big number of large files, companies only need to move around small files, which are the component parts of a programme. This is bound to decrease costs, increase flexibility and simplify integration with partners and the adjoining parts of content life cycle. Luc Comeau, director of Market Strategy & Portfolio – MAM at Dalet, explains how working directly with components can make life a lot easier for content creators: “If I need to fulfil new subtitles for a project
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