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...