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THE RIGHT TOOLS To best leverage component workflows, companies need tools to clearly track and monitor all of the programme components, and a good media asset management (MAM) system is essential in this. Additionally, a good MAM will need to understand and support the concept of versioning and know what individual core data elements are, as well as what the bundles formed from these components are, where those elements are and which are relevant for each individual job. Automation is another important factor in a successful component-based workflow set-up. While this new type of media supply chain is more efficient, it is also more complex. A good orchestration engine is required which can act at the level of the individual components, as well as at the level of the final complex versions assembled out of those individual files. The orchestration engine must also then be able to supply the correct media supply- chain rules to the content, whether it might be a transcode, the QC of an individual component, the delivery of a proxy version of the video to a post house for dubbing or sending an original version from a studio to a broadcaster, and this needs to be able to easily happen at the level of the individual objects and an assembled version. Ultimately, it is humans who make the content, even if parts of the workflow are automated, and so a user interface that allows people along the supply chain to assess the content and make effective
decisions about it is also vital. Users need to be able to see and understand the relationship between all the programme components for each version or bundle for delivery. The UI needs to include an information-rich timeline so that it’s clear to see on the fly what has resulted from the combining of the various components. “Along with a data model that allows me to create all these component relationships, I have a visualiser that allows me to see the source elements, used in the creation of those compositions,” says Comeau. “Through our Dalet bundle, you have a UI that looks very similar to a video editor, where you can see the assembly of both the original master content, the replacement video in the timeline where we might be putting in localisation, and metadata for the output. It allows you to do a quick QC before you finally render.” Many companies are stuck in old workflows and it may seem scary to have to make the future-proofing jump to component, but delay may prove more painful than taking the plunge. “With Dalet inventory and orchestration tools, we focus on users being able to visually compose and visualise all the different derivative outputs, and manage and choreograph those at an atomic level.” For more information, on Dalet Versioning & IMF solution, visit bit.ly/ DaletIMF. For the white paper on Dalet IMF, visit bit.ly/ DaletIMFWhitePaper
AUTOMATION CAN ENSURE OPTIMAL HANDLING OF TITLES, BOTH AT THE POINT OF CREATION AND ALSO OVER TIME AS VERSIONS ARE CREATED, MANAGED AND MAINTAINED
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