THE APPLICATION OF INTIMATE METADATA IN POST PRODUCTION
Paul Walland, Gomer Thomas, M. Koppetz, Jaime S. Cardoso, Tomaso Erseghe, F. Hericourt, Arnold Richter · Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) · 2002
With the advent of ever more complex schemes to describe content throughout the production and archiving process the possibility is arising to create and use additional information alongside the captured essence which enhances manipulation and content formatting capability in post-production. The creation and use of this metadata is set to revolutionise production and post-production operations, and will be a core element of managing the convergence of content gathering and programme creation in IT-based systems. In this paper a number of forms of intimate will be introduced and their applications and benefits described. Examples will be presented of specific metadata-based production carried out under the IST MetaVision project, ranging from innovative electronic camera implementation, incorporating temporal (motion) and 3-D (depth) metadata; its storage and post-production to a conformed output programme using intimate to drive editing and format conversion processes; and compression and transcoding operations to create a wide range of distribution formats which re-use existing metadata. The architecture and particular challenges of implementing such a production chain will be described. Progress in the MetaVision project and the likely time-scale of results will be presented.