Virtual File Systems for dynamic content in digital production workflows: A Novel Approach to Integration of Video Applications and MAM based Archives

摘要

IT-based television workflows have matured significantly over the last few years. The new, completely IT-based approach to TV production and broadcast has proven to be highly scalable and extremely cost-effective. Despite all the advances in technology it still takes a lot of work to integrate the wide range of different applications, such as non-linear editors (NLE), video servers, web portals, and legacy video archives. This document introduces a novel, open and transparent approach to dynamic content exchange between Media Asset Management (MAM) system based video archives and various video applications. The ultimate goal is providing each video application with the video format it wants in which ever codec it prefers regardless of which physical format it is stored in and where it is really physically located. This paper will describe the ideas in detail and also how far we have come implementing them.