Automatic technical metadata creation is a key part of the ingest process. The MANTRICS Workflow Manager enables an unlimited amount of metadata to be aggregated to content at any time - during, after and even before the ingestion. The process of adding metadata can be automatic or manual. In addition, MANTRICS can extract and automatically place in the database technical and descriptive metadata that are embedded in the file or signal.
A sophisticated content analysis allows MANTRICS to extract intrinsic signal properties (such as format, resolution, aspect ratio, etc) and automatically activate tasks or simply address the content in a specific process node.
Some relevant metadata is already inserted in the MANTRICS architecture, such as the Quality Control. Virtual keyboards can be easily configured by end users, speeding up the process.
Sets of multiple metadata can be added or changed once the content has been ingested, making it possible to re-purpose content without re-ingesting it and making the search more powerful.
MANTRICS allows metadata personalization and offers templates for each specific typology (e.g. sport, news, reality, etc). Metadata may include details on resolution, aspect ratio, title of content, file format, standard and format of the video, audio format, summary of contents.
In order to make the retrieval process faster and more effective, metadata can also be assigned to specific sections of the media file. Complex search rules can be saved in MANTRICS, to be reused at later time.
Amongst the innovation features is the ability to add frames grabbed either at user-defined time intervals or at a change of scene to the metadata.
Thanks to the Create New Material option, while waiting for new specific contents, the user can create a metadata list to move his work forward.
