No Time To Wait S03E14 - Derek Buitenhuis - Normalizing Ambiguous, Broken and Crazy Media
Channel: MediaArea
Date: 2018-11-28

Full title of presentation: Every Solution is Wrong: Normalizing Ambiguous, Broken, and Pants-on-Head Crazy Media
Normalizing is a tought problem. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to send back deliverables to a post-house to fix metadata or mastering. You may not even know the origin of many files. Maybe your workflow from 12 years ago used to create really crazy files, and the original source material is long gone. Maybe your users and clients are cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Maybe you work with MXF apologists. Regardless, you probably have to make something standard out of these crazy media files. There's no clear 'right' way, but some ways are less bad than others. At Vimeo, we've dealt with an extensive amount of mistagged, broken, niche, or otherwise messy files, both from users and our own ancient proprietary workflows of yesteryear — and contributed back most of these fixes to open source projects. This is a short talk on some of these problems, how Vimeo handled them, and how you can too, using the same open source libraries. 

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