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“Motion JPEG2000 Real-Time Hardware Compression as the Digital Video

Preservation Solution in Automated Mass Migration Systems”

Justin Dávila, Senior Researcher/SAMMA System Architect, Media Matters, Inc. (main presenter), with demo assistance from Sales Manager Steve Kwartek and Sales Engineer Bob Berger.

ABSTRACT

Media Matters LLC. is a technical consultancy specializing in archival audio and video material. Media Matters provides advice, analysis, and products to media archives that apply the beneficial advances in technology to collection management. Our flagship product is SAMMA, the System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets, which required the invention of new subsystems, including a mechanism to bring together the two critical objectives of any audiovisual archive, preservation and access, into a single standard digital file format. Our research into such a format for the Dance Heritage Coalition led us to recommend Motion JPEG2000. Media Matters  presents an early working prototype of our cutting-edge Lossless Compressed Real-Time Audio-Video Encoding system, combining lossless compressed video using MJPEG2000 with lossless Broadcast Wave file (BWF) -- an industry first.

PRESENTATION available in PowerPoint and PDF formats.

BIOGRAPHY

R. Justin Dávila is the Co-Inventor (along with James Lindner) and Chief System Architect of the patent-pending SAMMA system, and also serves as Senior Consultant for Media Matters consulting service. His interests include applying technical solutions to the urgent issues of cost, complexity, and obsolescence facing large audiovisual archives. Previously, he served as Managing Director of Consulting Services for Seattle-based Loudeye Technologies, and also ran his own teleconferencing and digital media field production company. His BA is in Philosophy from Florida Atlantic University, and his Masters work is in Cognitive Science at New York University's interdisciplinary Gallatin Program.