Actually to have a semi public facing drop zone where we could ingest, analyse and prep files for upload would be a good tool. Get it working right, and build in the right security, and I know of three or four real world production applications straight off- could even integrate well to DMI.
If we do a production systems hack day this year I'd chuck it in the mix. a On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Stephen Jolly <st...@jollys.org> wrote: > On 1 Feb 2010, at 13:30, Ant Miller wrote: > > > Possibly- the specific file formats we need to encode to to upload to > iplayer are pretty standard, but the way we make these films is using a 3rd > party editor (he's great by the way). Delivering finished films from his > home edit suite to us is proving maddeningly unreliable- a combination of > his home internet connection, a Mac that refuses to even see some removable > drives and a DVD Rom burner we are deeply suspicious of means that roughly > half the films fail at some stage of the workflow. In this instance an > H.264 copy (far lower quality) was readable off a memory stick whereas the > far nicer, and bigger, DV Pal 25 .mov file was U/S. > > > > Given the time I would love to set up a nice smooth workflow to pipe > these things from him to me, or in fact from any contributor to me, but it's > well outside my technical comfort zone, and there's always something else > pressing on my time. > > Sounds like a great R&D project - perhaps an automated tool to analyse (and > upload?) video produced by third parties? :-) > > S > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com
