Public Funding for Emotion Broadcast Systems Limited

Emotion Systems produce a range of applications for improving the efficiency of file-based workflows in a professional broadcast environment. These include areas such as loudness compliance, audio mapping, audio rework and Dolby® encoding.Currently these applications can be operated manually or within an automation system using an API. However real efficiencies could be gained if it were possible to combine all these applications to work under control of one API. Doing this would mean that it would be possible to very efficiently implement them within an automation system and also within a cloud environment. Within such environments it would also be desirable for the applications to include an element of scalability so that their capacity could scale to meet immediate requirements. Charging for scalability within cloud based environments is now more often done on a pay per use basis rather than on a capital cost basis. This would therefore require the development of a secure metering system.

Content owners in the UK have substantial archives of film and video materials dating back to the early days of film making and video recording. Some of this content is either damaged and/or of a quality too poor for commercial exploitation, and the prohibitive costs of picture restoration have rendered such content unusable and inaccessible. The objective of this project is to provide cost-effective ways to restore film and video programmes to yield valuable content that can be commercialised through web-based and packaged media platforms. The innovative nature of this project lies in the degree of automation that will be employed using lowcost PCs to transform the economies of moving picture restoration and its commercial exploitation. The scope will include automated restoration of moving picture sequences, automated adaptation into multiple delivery formats, cataloguing of materials using appropriate tagging to enable effective context-sensitive search, and transfer of content into web-based platforms for archive and retrieval. Formats to be supported will include high definition video, automated Blu-ray Disc output, high quality standard definition video for broadcast, automated DVD output, and a variety of lower resolution representations for online delivery and preview. The project will work with commercial Media Asset Management systems that may be used as the basis of commercial exploitation platforms.