Talk:Audiovisual archive

Hello User, I have reviewed your page.

Thank You! Nik2608 (talk) 01:52, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to thanking for the good comments, I will try to simplify the language of my writing, but some terms cannot be changed because they are specialized terms and have a special meaning. Ftalebhaghighi (talk) 16:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I have just seen that Video Logging was merged with this, which seems incorrect.

Video logging is nothing to do with Vlogging, and is widely used outside Archive.

Video logging is part of the post-production process for creating videos when there is a large volume of source material (eg 5k-20k hours), such as in unscripted reality TV, and where shooting ratios can reach 500:1.

The time it would take to find a clip or spoken words by looking through the source video would be of the order of thousands of hours per clip - obviously impractical.

Logging is the process of (often teams of) people going through the entire shot content adding significant metadata eg speech, type of shot, key people/objects in each shot, quality of shot etc, often stored in different columns. This process happens once, before editing (and can run concurrently with filming).

Then a director or editor can quickly search for relevant clips hundreds or thousands of times by a text search, even though they do not have time to look through all the source material themselves.

Unlike archive, logging for post-production focuses on items relevant to the current series (eg "good shot", "too dark", "Jim"), and the data is generally not useful for an archive search and is discarded after post is finished. Whereas archive logging may have 15+ fields, post-production logging typically has only two or three.

Without this process, reality TV would not be possible economically.

Do people here have any preference on where this process should be described in WP? Video post-production is an option.

Stephen B Streater (talk) 18:40, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]