1. Acquire
The acquire function, the first at the end of a media chain, consists of "retrieving" original elements from a recent or old production. These elements may come live from a camera, microphones, digital camera, optical discs (CD, DVD), or archives on tape or magnetic disc. The aim is to obtain and store them in digital form at the end of the process, whether they were originally in analog form or already in digital form.
The quality of the products resulting from the DMAM process depends to a large extent on this first stage.
In addition to the audio, photo and video media, metadata associated with the media data can also be acquired during this process:
timecode, metadata generally associated with a video sequence, but also possibly...
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Analyze – Index
Organizations
- (1) - - AES (Audio Engineering Society) http://www.aes.org/
- (2) - - AFNOR (Association française de normalisation) https://www.afnor.org/ ...
Standards and norms
- (1) - - AES Standards http://www.aes.org/standards/b_pub/aes-standards-in-print.cfm
- (2) - - AFNOR – Normes En Ligne
Acquisition tools and products
The following three sections are essentially tables presenting a sample of commercially available tools. They are not intended to provide an exhaustive overview, but simply to give the reader an initial exploration.
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Indexing analysis tools and products
All "integrated" DMAM tools offers an indexing analysis module.
Most of these modules are actually computer-assisted semantic analysis-indexing (text annotation) tools (video and/or audio segmentation, text transcription, etc.).
Very few do automatic analysis-indexing, generating only physical descriptors (Muscle Fish, LTU, ...)....
Editing tools
Audio editing tools
Audio editing modules are included in video editing products (Adobe has bought Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium, Steinberg has formed the audio division of Pinnacle, Sony Pictures has integrated Sonic Foundry software, etc.).
An editing function is included in specific DMAM software such as DaletPlus Radio Suite....
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