Webinar: Essence quality control for AV archive digitisation, migration and exploitation

This recorded webinar is an introduction to essence (baseband) quality control (QC) in the context of audiovisual preservation. It will start with the role of essence QC in the use cases video archive digitisation, digital migration, content selection and use. Currently available and emerging functionalities will be presented. Strategies for cost-efficient implementation of essence QC will be introduced, and showing how this can be achieved by automation and efficient interactive essence QC.

In addition to the technology development important quality related standardisation activities are ongoing. The video will give a brief introduction and an overview of the current state of affairs on the EBU Strategic Programme on Quality Control, the MPEG Multimedia Preservation Application Format (MP-AF) and the EBU/AMWA FIMS Service for Quality Analysis.

Learning Objectives

After watching the recording you will have learned what application areas / use cases of essence quality control in archives there are, what new QC functionalities are available and how they can be implemented efficiently within an archive. Finally the video introduces recent QC related standardisation activities, e.g. EBU QC, MPEG MP-AF and EBU/AMWA FIMS QA.

The Presto4U project receives funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project will run from 1 January 2013 till 31 December 2014.