Content Production Technologies

We are currently in a digital content era. With the increase in circulation of multimedia content globally via the internet it has lead to the need for reuse of content stored in archives; the utilisation of newly stored materials; partially finished broadcasting programmes and finished content. This book proposes to show solutions to these numerous content issues. It will discuss large scale archives for significant content and a retrieval method for large scale archives and remote editing. The book will also examine the protection of intellectual property rights, which is one of the most important issues facing content owners.

• Examines the design and implementation of a practical digital content production system
• Proposes to show solutions to various content issues
• Covers various retrieval methods for large-scale archives using MPEG-1 streaming technology and remote editing using an original time code
• Discusses large-scale video archive systems which will enable high speed retrieval and edit functions for large amounts of video data with multi-purpose applications

A resource that all broadcast engineers, systems integrators and engineers for equipment manufacturers will find invaluable.
The thorough approach to this topic ensures that this title will become the standard reference for R&D specialists in content production and digital archiving.

Preface vii

About the Editors ix

About the Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xv

Introduction 1

I.1 Shortage of Video Content 1

I.2 Preservation 3

I.3 Distribution 5

I.4 Production 6

I.5 New Content Production Environment 6

I.6 New Content Distribution Environment 8

1 What is a Large-scale Archive? 9

1.1 Need for an Archive 12

1.2 Example of a Preservation-oriented Archive 15

1.3 Example of New Type-oriented Archive 20

1.4 Future Video Archives 31

2 Content Production from Digital Archives 33

2.1 Storage of Video Material 36

2.2 How to Search for Specific Material in an Archive 44

2.3 Content Production Using Metadata 47

3 Archive-correlated Technology Standards 55

3.1 Standards Related to Archives 55

3.2 Standards Related to Metadata 60

3.3 Standards Related to Production 78

3.4 Reference 81

4 Experiment for Content Production with Content ID and MPEG-7 83

4.1 Archive System 84

4.2 Application of Watermarking Technology 88

4.3 Verification Tests 107

4.4 Retrieval Methods 115

4.5 Editing Process 122

5 New Content Production and Distribution Environment 129

5.1 Content Distribution Environment 129

5.2 Proposal for a New Content Production System 133

5.3 Study on New Content Distribution 143

5.4 References 163

6 Recap and the Future 165

6.1 Archives 166

6.2 Content Production from Archives 169

6.3 Experiments 173

6.4 New Environment 177

7 Utilization and Systematization of Video Assets 183

7.1 Building a Video Content Business 183

7.2 Local Industry Policy and Archives 184

7.3 Digital Content Creation 185

7.4 Policy and Guidelines Based on Original Creation Activity in Yamagata 185

7.5 Activity Guidelines of the YDCC 186

7.6 Conclusion 192

Index 193

Hasegawa, Fumio

Tohoku University of Art and Design

(email: fumio@in.tuad.ac.jp)

Fumio received an MSc from the University of Electro-Communications and joined the Shimizu Corporation in 1974. In 1986 he received a DEng from the University of Tokyo and was a visiting researcher at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In 1989 he became an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. He was the Leader of the R&D project at the Yamagata Video Archive Research Center (YRC) of the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO) from April 1999 to march 2003 and is now the senior director of the graduate school at the Tohoku University of Art and Design.

Hiki, Haruo

Japan International Cooperation Agency, Uruguay

(email: hh2001@ca2.so-net.ne.jp)

Haruo graduated from the University of Electro-Communications and joined the Sony Corporation VTR Development Division in 1965. For 20 years he worked on many aspects of R&D for video camera, VTR and video-editing system in PAL, SECAM, and NTSC, which included R&D in Paris for 7 years. Then he worked in the personal computer field for 5 years and in the digital interface standardization field for a further 5 years. He was a senior researcher at YRC/TAO from April 1999 to March 2003, where he was in charge of network-based editing technology in the R&D project, 'Fundamental Technology of Broadcasting Program Production with Large-scale Video Archives'. He is now a free lance journalist for archival production.

Content Production Technologies covers the growing demand for the archiving of video content as broadcasting channels increase along with the emergence of the need for broadcast programs to be stored. This book discusses the storage of accessible high-quality video material on networked, large-scale archives, optimised for easy retrieval delivery over broadcast and broadband media. It also describes the retrieval methods and editing options.

Unfortunately, it is relatively easy to copy digital content and retain reproduction quality. Solutions to problems of this kind are presented in this book. Combined with this, an examination of the protection of intellectual property rights takes place that will be of utmost importance to content owners.

The book offers:

• An examination of the design and implementation of a practical digital content production systems.
• Various retrieval methods for large-scale archives using MPEG-1 streaming technology and remote editing
• A discussion of large-scale video archive systems, which will enable high-speed retrieval and edit functions for large amounts of video data with multi-purpose applications.

This book will appeal to Broadcast engineers, Systems Integrators, Engineers for equipment manufacturers and Researchers and Developers in content production and digital archiving.