Unconference: VIDEO MEDIA WORKFLOW, FOCUS ON HYDRADAM AT WGBH

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

NOTES on VIDEO MEDIA WORKFLOW, FOCUS ON HYDRADAM AT WGBH
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 4:15pm - 4:55pm
Room 215

FACILITATOR: Karen Cariani, WGBH
NOTE TAKER: Kevin Carter, WGBH

hydradam will accept files for ingest via web form and/or in bulk via "dropbox folder"
the dropbox-style ingest folder is compatible with enterprise network structures (FTP, SMB, etc.) and needs only to appear to be "local" on the server file system
the hydradam application processes the file in place to extract technical metadata and then moves it to the repository (SMB-mounted HSM system)

Indiana uses workflow has users upload directly to the HSM system
where it is pre-processed before ingestion by their DAM

Discussion of media file formats
WGBH essence files have been created from analog at as quicktime wrapped MOV files using various bitrate- and colorspace-appropriate codecs DV25, DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO100 for standard definition sources
uncompressed 10-bit and AppleProRes for higher bitrate

Indiana University essence files are captured at 10-bit uncompressed quicktime wrapped MOV

Washington University in St. Louis is capturing 10-bit uncompressed Quicktime-wrapped essence files.

University of Cincinnati is building a collection but lacks a delivery mechanism. starting to design digitization strategy

UCal Berkeley has been digitizing large music collection, some video being done by their Media Resource Center. Homegrown repository to be replaced by hydra application.

WGBH offered difficult experience of handling very large video files in a mixed archive/production environment, citing mindsets/timeframes of production vs. archive. Everyday IT operations are not rigorous enough for archival file handling, extra time and expense to verify file copies is necessary. WGBH uses MD5 hashes for this. BagIt is good tool to provide this.