2. AGENDA
1. Introducing FFW FLOW & our ideas about SMART
digitization, or the what, why & how of FFW FLOW
2. Digitization results from our test week at B&G
1.The results from the test - in numbers
2.The digitised sound, with examples
3.The digitized frames, with examples
4.The access and archive platform, BG.BASIC.FFW.io
3. FFWs API’s
4. Open discussion, questions & feedback from B&G
3. Traditional film digitizing workflow
(Simplified)
Material
Exchange
Format
Steenbeck flatbed
film viewing table
Film digitizing workflow
Audio digitizing
Film digitizing
MAM
Digital
Preservation
Sales platform
Online platform
Revenue
Distribution
Collaboration Knowledge
Exhibition Products
Phase 0
Analog
Preservation
Phase 1
Preparation
Content viewing
Film check
Selection
Phase 2
Cleaning, film and audio digitizing
Phase 3
Digital file
Quality check
Phase 5
Digital file distributed
Phase 6
Access and
value creation
Phase 4
Digital file
managed &
registration
4. Material
Exchange
Format
Steenbeck flatbed
film viewing table
Film digitizing workflow
Audio digitizing
Film digitizing
MAM
Digital
Preservation
Sales platform
Online platform
Revenue
Distribution
Collaboration Knowledge
Exhibition Products
Phase 0
Analog
Preservation
Phase 1
Preparation
Content viewing
Film check
Selection
Phase 2
Cleaning, film and audio digitizing
Phase 3
Digital file
Quality check
Phase 5
Digital file distributed
Phase 6
Access and
value creation
Phase 4
Digital file
managed &
registration
Required
Accessible
=
Value
Processing analog film to digital files
Traditional film digitizing workflow
(Simplified)
5. Material
Exchange
Format
Steenbeck flatbed
film viewing table
Film digitizing workflow
Audio digitizing
Film digitizing
MAM
Digital
Preservation
Sales platform
Online platform
Revenue
Distribution
Collaboration Knowledge
Exhibition Products
Phase 0
Analog
Preservation
Phase 1
Preparation
Content viewing
Film check
Selection
Phase 2
Cleaning, film and audio digitizing
Phase 3
Digital file
Quality check
Phase 5
Digital file distributed
Phase 6
Access and
value creation
Phase 4
Digital file
managed &
registration
What FFW do
Required
Accessible
=
Value
fastforward from required to value
6. It’s not a competition
VS.
FFW digitizing Traditional digitizing
7. Material
Exchange
Format
Steenbeck flatbed
film viewing table
Film digitizing workflow
Audio digitizing
Film digitizing
MAM
Digital
Preservation
Sales platform
Online platform
Revenue
Distribution
Collaboration Knowledge
Exhibition Products
Phase 0
Analog
Preservation
Phase 1
Preparation
Content viewing
Film check
Selection
Phase 2
Cleaning, film and audio digitizing
Phase 3
Digital file
Quality check
Phase 5
Digital file distributed
Phase 6
Access and
value creation
Phase 4
Digital file
managed &
registration
What FFW does, is adding more value
Required
digitization
=
demands
=
value
fastforward from required to value
More value
8. FFW is fast and efficient
traditional film digitizing is refinement
and high quality
where
10. FFW digitizing creates more demands
WYSIWYG in better quality
required
ffw workflow
Traditional
FFW90%
10%
+20%
Accessible
content
DR example
Internal/external
customers
15. FFW high speed audio digitizing
• We digitize audio in 48KHz, 16bit
• We measure time and speed and have developed an algorithm who adjust
the audio to realtime playback
16. FFW high speed audio digitizing
• Benefits
• Seamless high speed audio digitizing
• Instant accessible in FFW archive
• Challenges
• High speed - not high quality audio digitizing
• Ok for speech, problems with music
• Improvements - (in pipeline)
• Better audio recorder quality (e.g. 196KHz)
• Improvement of algorithm
18. FFW high speed picture digitizing
• We digitize in HD (1920x1200). 8bit, 150fps, RAW format, 450Mbit/s and
use a LED 5600K light source
• We measure time and speed to trigger the camera and assemble the
pictures to movie in 24 or 25fps
19. FFW high speed picture digitizing
• Benefits
• Seamless high speed HD picture digitizing
• Instant viewable on FFW archive
• Challenges
• High speed god quality - but not as high quality as scanity
• Good for viewing & productions in many situations, e.g. content/quality control,
internet distribution, sale, as archive filling, footage in TV productions, etc.
Maybe even preservation for some part of the collections
• Improvements - (in pipeline)
• Better camera (e.g. 2K)
• Improvement of postproduction, better adjustment of color, light, etc. according
to B&G collection
21. FFW FLOW
• FFW FLOW consist of two components, FFW high speed film digitizing
and FFW basic
Local Systemt Cloud System
FFW BASE
HighSpeed Grabber
MWA Adaptor
Web Interface
Workflow
Database
Local
Storage
User
Interface
Processer
Streaming Server
Web Services
External Components
<<External>>
MAM System
<<External>>
Media Storage
Export/Import Metadata
Export Output
Media Data
addTimeCodes
getTasks
setSatus
control
readwrite
write
read/
write
streamVideo
High speed film digitizing Basic infrastructure
22. FFW FLOW deployment
• FFW FLOW deployment setup are based on one or more FFW high speed digitizing
setup on a specific physical location. FLOW uses the FFW basic infrastructure to
manage access, users, film digitization, registration, content, metadata, etc.
Audio Picture
Audio Picture
Grabber
control
Grabber
control
FFW basic production
user interface
FFW basic archive
user interface
FFW basic
001
002
Optional
23. FFW basic infrastructure
• The core component in FFW basic is a fully tested, flexible and scalable
web service
24. FFW basic
• FFW basic consist of two components, FFW production and FFW archive
25. FFW basic
• Both FFW production and FFW archive comes with an API
29. AGENDA - NEXT STEP
1.The FFW elements in fast & efficient digitization
2.Mobile filmdigitization lab - based on FFWs technology we
prepare THE B&G TEAM VAN. A transportable film lab, where
B&G or FFW personal can visit external collaborators, or
owners of acquired collections and digitize their collections on
location.
3. Internal of highspeed digitization project - which could serve
B&G in a number of ways.
1. The digitization of a specific sub-collections FX B&Gs
News collection(s) or Commercials.
2. A (cost)analyses of the of the analog film archive of
30.000 hours.
3. A benchmark
30. FFW ELEMENTS
High-speed
“project”
Digitization:
• Setup
• Volume
• State
• Team
Pre-
digitization:
• Insight &
• Overview
Post-
digitization:
• Access/distr. &
• Enrichment
A product
• online &/or
• Museum
A high-speed digitization project involves several areas or projects where
(new) knowledge and insights are gathered. Depending on B&Gs wishes and
focus for a potential the next step the areas we should discuss and clarify
are:
• Pre-digitization: What kind of collection(s) are we targeting, which
(meta)data is available and where & how would we like to included in the
workflow
• Digitization: Which kind of setup of FFW FLOW is needed(mobile solution,
1-? linies in parallel) and which team is needed, training, operators, film
experts ++
• Post-digitization: What kind of access would be requested and could we
enrich the content during the process or through automation and/
crowdsourcing
• Product: Is their a product we would like to develop and/or facilitate during
the high-speed collaboration
31. MOBILE FILM DIGITIZATION LAB
The development of a mobile digitization lab, which B&G can use to digitize
already acquired film collections, new ones and collaborators collections.
Project name: THE B&G TEAM
THE B&G
TEAM
Digitization:
• Setup
• Volume
• State
• Team
Pre-
digitization:
• Insight &
• Overview
Post-
digitization:
• Access/distr. &
• Enrichment
A product
• online &/or
• Museum
32. INTERNAL HIGH-SPEED PROJECT
The establishment of 1-2 internal FFW digitization lines and a focussed
digitization projects which delivers a “large” volume while analysing the 4
project areas, in order to create an overall estimation incl, a total cost budget,
timeline, ressource clarification and some product examples.
Project name: FAST & FURIOUS
INTERNAL
High speed
project
Digitization:
• Setup
• Volume
• State
• Team
Pre-
digitization:
• Insight &
• Overview
Post-
digitization:
• Access/distr. &
• Enrichment
A product
• online &/or
• Museum
