Amsterdam, 28. August 2014
FIAT/IFTA 2014 World Conference in Amsterdam
The next World Conference will take place from Wednesday October 22nd – Saturday October 25th 2014 in Amsterdam and will be hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid).
Use the chance to meet Tom and Jörg to discuss your projects and project ideas.
Cube-Tec is an active member of FIAT/IFTA and supports the world conference 2014 with a presentation and a workshop. The presentation is a joint oral presentation with the ORF presented by Christoph Bauer and Jörg Houpert.
Presentation of a solution for restoring a high amount of defective MXF D10 at ORF TV-Archives
Christoph Bauer / ORF & Joerg Houpert / Cube-Tec International
In 2013 the ORF-Archive detected during a migration-project a defective collection of MXF files, which originated from an earlier mass migration project of SD video tapes (2010-2011). In total, about eight thousand hours of video material were affected to a degree that no further usage was possible.
Re-ingestion of the original video tapes was not an option because of cost and time constraints. ORF was looking for a solution that is capable to repair the damaged files, preferable software-based and without the necessity to transcode the affected files. Since there was none vailable on the market it was decided to solve that problem within the DAVID project, where ORF had the role of a user-partner in the consortium.
A customised repair tool has been developed. This version can now fully automatically detect the occurring errors in different combinations, in the MXF container as well as in the MPEG bit-stream. With this new procedure, errors are fixed selectively, and at the same time the bit-stream is wrapped into a fully standard-compliant MXF file. Neither re-encoding nor re-wrapping would have solved these problems.
The Cube-Tec team provides the operation and maintenance of this repair service via remote supervision; the progress of the repair process as well as results of the file checks are automatically monitored and reported monthly in consolidated form directly to the client.
This report from the front-line of migration and actual research, will give the audience an actual example, where a small and undetected error from an “early-adopter-project” with big impact on the collection was solved without any negative consequences for the affected content and with a minimal budget. The initial situation, the impact on the collection, the challenge, the development-steps and the final solution will be presented, to give the audience a detailed insight of the task.
The workshop will describe joint research and development work within the DAVID project.
Digital video damage in archives: Understand, Prevent, Detect, and Repair - Results from the David Project
Christoph Bauer (ORF), Jean-Hugues Chenot (Ina), Jörg Houpert (Cube-Tec), Peter Schallauer (JRS)
In this workshop we will look for answers to the following questions: What types of damage are common in digital archive content and workflows and what are its consequences on the re-usability of that content? Which solutions are there to detect and repair MXF errors, e.g. in D10 files and workflows? Which solutions are there to detect and repair video essence damage, e.g. Digital BETACAM dropouts, noise, various field errors, and for improving the picture quality beyond its original state, e.g. de-blurring and super-resolution? And finally, how to prevent digital damage in the future?
The Cube-Tec team is looking forward to meet you in Amsterdam!