| DVD Authoring Workflows |
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Blu-ray provides the consumer an enhanced entertainment experience with the combination of higher image quality (HDTV), advanced interactivity, web connectivity and dynamic content integration.
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| However, the capabilities of Blu-ray HDMV and BD-Java titles introduce additional challenges, workflow complexities, and increase resource consumption into the authoring and BD-ROM disc production process. |
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| Accelerated Effort To Go Digital From Tape |
| The physical storage and archive costs associated with tape is predictable and inexpensive. However, it is difficult to estimate real cost of holding file based data infinitely. DataFrameworks provides the ability to accurately account for and cost all data associated with any given project, customer, work order, etc. |
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| Standardize And Globalize WorkFlows |
Sample Data Organization Scheme |
| While facilities often have reasonably well defined workflows for SD DVD production, Blu-ray Disc workflows introduce a new degree of complexity and resource consumption. DVD and BD-ROM production facilities desire continuity of workflows and data organization among their individual facilities to enable distribution of work to the production facility with available capacity or expertise. For example, authoring might be done in the United States and quality control in India. Distribution of work enables longer production days (i.e. 20 hours per day). DataFrameworks provides ability to standardize and globalize the file system folder structure. |
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| Standardize Data Ingest |
| A core foundation of the DataFrameworks technology is to standardize how data is ingested into the system instead of a bunch of arbitrary files. Standardization upon ingest enables the management of production resources (usage of servers and storage) on a daily basis. |
| Project Planning And Management |
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| As with most projects, planning, preparation, and management is everything. Project management can quickly become the largest cost to the compression and authoring business. Compression, audio, and quality control are typically well defined for a work order. Project management is a variable cost that is difficult to measure and forecast. DataFrameworks provides operational efficiencies to the management of file based data throughout the project. |
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