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Integrated Partners[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”align-self: center;” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.3em” header_4_font=”|700||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” header_4_text_color=”#56A1D5″ header_4_font_size=”30px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”||||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” header_4_text_align_tablet=”center” header_4_text_align_phone=”center” header_4_text_align_last_edited=”on|tablet” header_4_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_4_font_size_phone=”30px” header_4_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_4_line_height_tablet=”” header_4_line_height_phone=”” header_4_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_orientation_tablet=”center” text_orientation_phone=”center” text_orientation_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n

10-BIT<\/h4>\n

End-to-End Cloud Workflow[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”align-self: center;” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.3em” header_4_font=”|700||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” header_4_text_color=”#56A1D5″ header_4_font_size=”30px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”||||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height_tablet=”” text_line_height_phone=”” text_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone” header_4_text_align_tablet=”center” header_4_text_align_phone=”center” header_4_text_align_last_edited=”on|tablet” header_4_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_4_font_size_phone=”30px” header_4_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_4_line_height_tablet=”” header_4_line_height_phone=”” header_4_line_height_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_orientation_tablet=”center” text_orientation_phone=”center” text_orientation_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n

Real-time<\/h4>\n

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Summary<\/h1>\n

At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) set out to demonstrate the progress made in moving professional media production workflows to the cloud by creating and posting content live in the event trade show booth, using real tools, workflows, and participants. The end-to-end production workflow in the cloud was modeled on the MovieLabs 2030 Vision\u00ae<\/sup> and showcased several of the key components of a real-world production: pre-visualization, shoot, ingest, editorial, visual effects (VFX), compositing, color\/finishing, and quality control. The cloud studio environment spun up for the production included deployment orchestration, shared storage, asset management, and workflow automation. 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Background<\/h1>\n

In post-production workflows, a large amount of effort is expended on moving content between environments. This movement creates operational and labor costs, increases the chances of lost files or metadata, and impacts the overall security of the environment. The time and resources spent on moving and managing data is a distraction from adding more value to the content through creative iteration.<\/p>\n

Traditional workflows include manual media movement from on-set to a centralized storage location, usually at a post-production facility. Media is copied from camera cards onto physical hard drives (often manually moved to the production facility) to be loaded into central storage. This causes delays in dailies and editorial workflows because it takes time to move media between locations.<\/p>\n

In addition, Quality Control (QC) is manual in traditional workflows. An operator views media in high-quality file formats which requires the media to be transcoded and mounted to be viewed on a reference monitor before the QC engineer can review it. At this point, if there are issues with the media and QC fails, the process must start again which delays QC completion and the next steps in the workflow or delivery of the content.<\/p>\n

The media files are large and often represented by lower bitrate proxies, which introduces new challenges to maintain the connection between the original and related proxies. The Original Camera Files (OCFs) are in a variety of non-standard file formats \u2013 often frame-based codecs, which present unique challenges as they can\u2019t be viewed easily in a browser or file system.<\/p>\n

Today the cloud is widely used for storage of media files (especially for archive), file transfers, lightweight proxy editorial, and for large compute jobs (like VFX rendering). However, AWS has committed to implementing the Principles of the MovieLabs 2030 Vision and is focused on filling today\u2019s gaps to truly create more effective, efficient cloud-based workflows and demonstrate today\u2019s tools with the cloud providing work-in-progress (WIP) storage throughout.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” height=”50px” height_tablet=”50px” height_phone=”25px” height_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”|700||on|||||” header_3_text_color=”#56A1D5″ header_3_font_size=”24px” header_4_line_height=”1.25em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|80px||80px|false|true” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||0px|false|true” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||0px|false|true” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” header_3_font_size_tablet=”24px” header_3_font_size_phone=”16px” header_3_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_4_font_size_tablet=”” header_4_font_size_phone=”14px” header_4_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n

A Typical Legacy On-Premises Production Environment<\/h3>\n

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Figure 1: A traditional workflow for a narrative TV show or movie with multiple stages of data movement between departments<\/h4>\n

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Solution<\/h1>\n

In the last few years, new cloud-enabled tools, open APIs, and the ISV partner ecosystem have expanded the art of the real beyond traditional cloud workloads and towards a holistic production workflow with shared storage. To showcase this readiness, AWS for Media & Entertainment worked closely with middleware and creative application partners to showcase an entire production workflow in the cloud at IBC 2022.<\/p>\n

The AWS Studio in the Cloud solution included commonly used media applications (Adobe Premiere Pro, Baselight FilmLight) all running on virtual machines, processing stacks for transcoding and file preparation (e.g., Transkoder), and connections to SaaS platforms (e.g., Moxion for real-time dailies). The entire pipeline ran at 10-bits with color accurate monitors for QC as if the final mastering was happening locally within a production facility connected to a Storage Area Network (SAN). The assets captured were of a live scene with real-time compositing of a background plate from a blue screen. The solution included realistic monitoring, proxies, previews, review\/approvals, QC, and transcoding into file formats commonly used in movie and TV production workflows.<\/p>\n

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AWS AND AWS PARTNERS RE-ARCHITECTED CLOUD-BASED PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT<\/h3>\n

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Figure 2: The cloud-enabled infrastructure and AWS Partners used to demonstrate end-to-end post-production in the cloud<\/h4>\n

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Architecture<\/h1>\n

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Figure 3: On-set at IBC with Cloudia, the robotic dog and star of the show<\/h4>\n

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Meanwhile, an automated process, using Pomfort Silverstack, offloaded OCFs from the camera media and sent them to an on-site Jellyfish Network Attached Storage (NAS) that synchronized to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket for disaster recovery protection. Silverstack generated a proxy file and ingested the files and associated camera metadata directly to Amazon S3 so the WiP copies could be edited. Upon landing in Amazon S3, a serverless compute function\u2014using AWS Lambda\u2014ran automatically to hydrate the media from S3 to the PixStor filesystem. The PixStor storage was powered by three compute-optimized, clustered servers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), backed by Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes for roughly 27 TB of storage.<\/p>\n

For editorial, the editor remotely connected to a graphics-powered workstation running Adobe Premiere Pro in AWS. The workstation was connected to the PixStor storage cluster over Server Message Block (SMB) protocol that provided low-latency access to the media for the editor to create a rough cut and VFX pulls. Network Device Interface (NDI)1<\/sup><\/a> was used to transport frame-accurate, ultra-low latency video over Internet Protocol (IP) without compromising quality. In this solution, Adobe Premiere used NDI to send a live view of video playback to a Streambox plugin that sent the video to an on-premises Streambox decoder co-located with the editors, where it was displayed on a high-fidelity, broadcast reference monitor.<\/p>\n

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Unreal Engine 5 ran on the latest generation NVIDIA GPU-based instance equipped with four NVIDIA A10 GPUs that handled real-time rendering and compositing of VFX on final plates as well as pre-visualization. Autodesk Flame ran on a slightly smaller graphics-powered instance, accessing the PixStor cluster via the native Linux client. This allowed the VFX artist to collaborate with the editor to achieve a final edit. Interchange files such as Edit Decision Lists (EDLs) and Audio Interchange Files (AIFs) were stored in Moxion (backed by Amazon S3), allowing artists to access them as needed. Flame used the AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI)<\/a>2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0to transport an uncompressed live video feed to Streambox, where an on-premises decoder displayed the high-resolution image on a broadcast monitor.<\/p>\n

When the edit was complete, the final timeline was assembled in Baselight for color grading. Baselight ran on a graphics-powered instance, using CDI to send uncompressed video to AWS Elemental MediaConnect. MediaConnect applied a low-latency JPEG-XS 10:1 compression to the stream, enabling the artist to view the graded image in real-time from the cloud. In addition to the client machine, an IP JPEG-XS decoder box, a broadcast monitor, and a grading panel are needed for the artist to use this workflow. AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports RGB 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 color spaces via CDI, which enables workloads where visually lossless fidelity, accurate color, and low latency are required.<\/p>\n

Once the grade was complete, Colorfront accessed the content for QC. Colorfront created an encoded stream for the streaming player running locally on a MacMini and connected to a Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k Mini for output to a reference monitor. This system provided a color-accurate image on-site for QC processes and review and approval without ever moving the content. Each workstation in this pipeline used an NDI screen-capture feed into Moxion, enabling a remote director or producer to have a real-time view of the entire workflow at any time.<\/p>\n

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Partners<\/h1>\n

The AWS Studio in the Cloud would not have been possible without the support and technology solutions from various partner companies all contributing and interconnecting their systems to demonstrate what is possible. For the film production component, AWS worked with Blackmagic Design, OWC, IN2Core, Mission, and PacketFabric. The solution used Blackmagic cameras connected to a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) cart where H.264 proxies were generated using QTAKE and sent to Moxion. OCFs were offloaded to a high-throughput storage NAS powered by Jellyfish (OWC). The OCFs were ingested into Amazon S3 using PacketFabric for on-set stage connectivity to the cloud.<\/p>\n

For cloud studio management, AWS worked with Moxion, Arch Platform Technologies, HP, and Pixitmedia. Arch Platform Technologies provided workstation management capabilities for provisioning and managing the lifecycle of the artist workstations in the studio environment. HP enabled PCoIP desktop streaming using their HP Anyware solution that allowed the artists to remotely connect to their workstations running in the cloud. Pixitmedia provided user and file storage via a PixStor cluster. All workstations sent over-the-shoulder feeds to a Moxion workstation for collaborative review.<\/p>\n

Previsualization was powered by Epic Games Unreal Engine 5 and editorial workstations featured Adobe Premiere Pro. Additionally; a preview monitor was connected via a Streambox integration allowing an editor to have a professional monitor on their desk. For compositing and VFX, Autodesk Flame\u2019s newly released integration with AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) was showcased. Finally, for finishing and quality control AWS partnered with FilmLight to demonstrate the Baselight Color in the Cloud solution and Colorfront for master QC.<\/p>\n

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At Colorfront, our goal is to be at the forefront of innovation and technology in the Media and Entertainment industry. Participating in the AWS IBC 2022 end-to-end production demonstration using our Colorfront Streaming Server technology with CDI-implemented support is a testament to our commitment to delivering the highest quality tools to our customers. We believe that this involvement will help to set a new standard for the industry, and we are proud to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BENEFITS<\/h1>\n

This implementation created a \u2018single source of truth\u2019 for media files in the cloud which all other processes can work from. As content leaks can occur from physical movement of media and hand-off points during a production, this one change alone can help enhance security for content owners. With content securely stored in the cloud, applications coming to the content, and every member of a production centrally authenticated, the risk of a content security breach is minimized. By centrally storing assets and applying the principle of least privilege to them, data silos are reduced, which also provides financial efficiencies through de-duplication.<\/p>\n

By automating the publishing of assets, sidecar files, and project files, productions can create process and operational efficiencies. This potentially enables post-production cost savings and enables productions to spend more budget with creatives and put \u201cmore money on the screen\u201d to make better content in less time. Real-time iteration adds to these technical efficiencies by allowing creatives to focus on being creative and eliminating travel time, analog processes, and lengthy synchronous approvals.<\/p>\n