file formats at the dutch institute for sound and vision
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How the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision work out a digitization solution.TRANSCRIPT
Dubai 2013
FFile Formats at The Dutch Institute
for Sound and Vision
Ernst van VelzenCIODutch institute for Sound sound and [email protected]
DIGITAL FORMATS
IMAGES FOR THE FUTURE, LEGACY
• Digitize 120.000 hours of video– Simple choice: digitize the Digibeta tape to MXF D10-50 and ad
them to the Born digital collection in our digital archive.
– Same for older formats like BCN VHS etc.
• Digitize most of our audio tapes: 300.000 hours– BWF 24bit 48 kHz, same as the born digital material
– Music BWF 24bit 96 kHz, there was no born digital eqivalent becouce music was not part of the “digital facility”
• What to do with the 17.500 hours of Film we have to digitize?
Film, the quest for a solution
• We would not digitize everything to MXF SD or HD– The film material contained more information than a SD
resolution.
– XDCAM-HD is heaviley compressed: long gop
– Not suitable for 4x3 material: Pillar Bars
– How to handle frame rates: 18, 24
• We conciderd HDCAM SR– Expensive
– What to do with different frame rates etc
– legacy format, not a file format
RESOLUTIONS
USE OF JPG2000 FOR PRESERVATION
• Industry focused on DCI DCDM / DCP
• No standard for MXF container (SMPTE 422M)
• Little tools available for validating / controlling of code stream
• Little benefits in storing mathematically lossless over direct output DPX format (50%) reduction
• A lot of processing power is needed
WY: DPX?
• We developed a complete workflow were we produced DPX. The onley reason to look for compression was storage
• We bought our own Tape robot to backup al our material (15PB LTO5). Against marginal cost we could store 6 PB
• Problem solved! DPX is our archive master for Film. XDCM-HD derived from the DPX for immedite use in the digital facility– Use AXF as a wrapper for DPX to do partial file retrieval. We
now use TAR.
• Top collection nitrate even on 4K
14/10/10
HD / 2K WORKFLOW DATA SCANNING
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