Considering multisite collaboration
 
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Creation and use of business video is increasingly becoming a collaborative process that spans multiple organizations in multiple time zones, or even continents. A video shot at a Texas branch office to support the global launch of a new product could be reviewed and edited at the company's headquarters in California. Later, a post-production firm in California could make more edits, slicing the video into many clips, and a third company could post it to the company's Web site. At each step, the Texas division and the California headquarters staff need to review the edits and suggest changes. Sometime later, the company's training department, which wasn't involved in the original project, asks to search the archived video looking for clips to use in training material.
In addition to our usability tests, we reviewed each product in light of how they could support such multisite collaboration.
All the products reviewed provided for local editing, indexing and generation/creation of metadata, followed by the posting of video files and associated metadata to a database accessible to other registered users. The indexed video could be searched and viewed by multiple users across multiple sites, but only users with an "edit" (or in eMotion's case an "annotation") application loaded locally on the PC could make changes to the metadata.
The only product we tested that allowed changes to original media as envisioned in the scenario we tested was Convera.
Upon making changes in a clip, for example, the Video Asset server and Edit client could export an edit decision list for use in a nonlinear editing system, or directly produce a new version of the video and treat it as a completely new asset in the collection.
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Perey is president of Perey Research & Consulting, of Placerville, Calif. She provides market research and business development consulting to companies offering networked multimedia applications, technologies and services to enterprises. She can be reached at cperey@perey.com.
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Intel and Excalibur Technologies Monday announced that they have chosen the name Convera Corp. for their joint venture interactive media services company.
IDG News Service, 09/11/00.
