Interra Systems' Baton

The migration of media content from tape-based analog to file-based digital media creates opportunities to improve operational efficiencies across the content lifecycle. Factors contributing to operational efficiencies include human productivity, improvement in content throughput, quality, management and monetization across the content lifecycle. While the efficiency potential of file-based workflows is appealing, there are many hurdles to realize these efficiencies. The ingest process typically involves getting the content from multiple sources, such as traditional VTRs, tape libraries and live camera feeds, and from different locations. Externally, post-production teams or content providers can upload content to FTP locations; internally, interoffice files are transferred using smart automated file transfer utilities. The diversity of content sources, formats and locations make it difficult for content aggregators to ensure quality of the ingested content. A QC solution for this stage in the content lifecycle can speed content acquisition and enhance the supplier throughput to automatically comply with predefined specifications/quality standards. Baton can detect the artifacts at an early stage of the content lifecycle with simultaneous scans of multiple watch folders, FTP locations and shared SAN or NAS storage to optimize the ingest workflow.