Semedia Overview

SpycerWeb (DVS)

Overview

SpycerWeb is a web interface for DVS's content management software Spycer(TM) that is capable of searching for a company’s media files through the network or the internet. The user can view and edit content metadata and preview video files via an integrated streaming player. SpycerWeb is a Flex application that runs in a web browser with a Flash Player plugged in and is geared towards film and video postproduction environments.

Features

The SpycerWeb is a platform- and location-independent user interface that makes use of the SEMEDIA Framework (an enhanced Spycer installation sharing some functionality through SOAP) for which it also acts as a reference implementation. The main functionalities of the SpycerWeb are:

• • simple and extended textual search for media files
• • viewing and editing of metadata (textual metadata, camera motion, keyframes and stripe images)
• • previewing of streaming video files

For searching, the user can choose between a simple or extended search mechanism. The search results are shown in a table or image view. By clicking on a result item, the user can access related metadata in form of textual metadata (file and production metadata) or image representations like keyframes and stripe images. In the timeline of the video player one can also find segments of camera motion (camera pan, camera tilt) and visual activity. Some metadata called "production metadata" can be edited and searched afterwards. One can also search for camera motion and visual activity as well as navigate intuitively by clicking on the keyframes.

Demonstration

Links

SpycerWeb

DVS