Applied Metadata Management Systems for Post-Production

Metadata is data describing media-assets, i.e. ³data about data². Effective metadata management is paramount for the efficient operation of post-production projects. These projects can be media neutral, that is, they can be film video-tape, graphics and animation, all of which have similar metadata descriptors. The integration of media-assets, of different source types, into compositions is much easier to manage when the metadata has been accurately identified, labelled and associated to the source media. — Vendors of digital media production and manipulation tools generally provide a degree of asset manageability for their own media-assets. As media-asset production and manipulation can be by many sources, generic management tools are hence necessary to achieve total control of all media assets. With the introduction of the Open Media Management (OMM) and Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) protocols we can use generic tools to access, and manage metadata originated from various sources. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) technologies add to the ability of developers to maintain truly open metadata management utilities. — Clients/Users on intranets (and the Internet) are now able to perform enquiries, previews and updates of the metadata databases via specific user interface programmes or generic Web-browers. Composition descriptors, such as, EDL's, OMFI, Cut-lists etc, will be able to be exchanged with much greater confidence of accuracy of content.

Published

1999-07

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001212

ISBN

978-1-61482-948-5