Supporting Digital Media Workflows in the Cloud with Perforce HelixDavid CastilloProfessional Services, Perforce Software

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Goals

To explore the various versioning requirements for digital media workflows

To explore how Perforce Helix with cloud can support digital media workflows

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Non-destructive Editing and Metadata

Non-destructive editing• Non-destructive editing is a form of editing where the original

content is not modified in the course of editing.• Uses metadata "data that provides information about other

data“ to record information about edits such as timecode in and out points.

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File Formats and File Sizes

Video• Resolutions

- Standard Definition 720p - High Definition 1080p- Ultra High Definition (1 hour of 4k = 1 Terabyte)

• Web ready file formats- .wmv- .ogg- .mp4 (most widely supported)

• Codecs (H264)

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Simple Video Production Workflow

Local

Start EndIngest PublishRenderEdit Transcode

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How can Cloud Help?

Durable Storage Offline Transcoding Geo-distributed Collaboration Web Publishing

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Amazon S3 Object Storage

Highly durable (99.999999999%) Lifecycle policies (Cold Storage) Event generators Access Control

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Amazon Lambda

Event driven compute Triggered by S3 and DynamoDB events Pay only when code is executed Pre-configured with Amazon SDK Currently supports Node.js and Python 2.7

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Pipelines -A pipeline manages the jobs that transcode your files. Configure a pipeline with an input / output source and a preset.

Presets - A preset specifies the settings to apply during transcoding such as codec and resolution.

Jobs - A job does the work of transcoding.

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Demo One

Amazon S3 publish Lambda Functions Elastic Transcoding

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virtual private cloud

Jenkins

P4D

security group

P4V Amazon S3 bucket

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

CloudFrontdistributio

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AWSLambda

Jenkins Orchestrated publish

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AWS Simple Notification Service

Topics – A topic is a web accessible endpoint in which to publish related messages.

Publishers• S3, DynamoDB events or applications

Subscribers• SQS• HTTP/HTTPS (Lambda)• Email (JSON)• SMS (text messaging)

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Amazon CloudFront CDN

Global Content Distribution Network• High data transfer• Low latency

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Demo Two

SNS Notification S3/CloudFront Publishing

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Complex Video Production Workflow

Local

Cloud

Start EndIngest PublishRenderEdit Transcode

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Amazon Simple Workflow

Fully managed state tracker and task coordinator• Workflows/Workflow history• Activity Workers• Deciders

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Simple Workflow Life Cycle

Activity Edit Activity Ingest

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Activity RenderActivity DRM

Activity Publish

Decider

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Thank you!See Perforce.com for upcoming blogs, tutorials and articles on Supporting Digital Media Workflowsdcastillo@perforce.com