Walk through a distributed, non-destructive digital media workflow with graphics, audio and video media from start to finish. Learn the pain points and challenges of versioning increasingly large and varied formats, and see various strategies and best practices for configuring and managing depots in Perforce Helix that facilitate collaborative creative work while minimizing large data transfers. You’ll leave this session with the insights and skills needed to securely support automated digital media workflows in your organization using the Perforce Helix platform with the latest cloud services. 

1. Supporting Digital Media Workflows
in the Cloud with Perforce Helix
David Castillo
Professional 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
CloudFront
distribution
AWS
Lambda
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
End
Activity Render
Activity DRM
Activity Publish
Decider
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Start
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18. Thank you!
See Perforce.com for upcoming blogs, tutorials and
articles on Supporting Digital Media Workflows
dcastillo@perforce.com