Please describe the workflow where the customer wishes to use Baton
What is the amount of content to be QCed per day/week? (Number of Hours of media content)
What is the ratio of HD to SD content? (How many hours out of total content to be QCed would be HD or SD?)
Format of the container (MXF, MOV, AVI etc)
Format of video contained in media files (MPEG2, DNXHD, XDCAM HD, Prores etc).
Format of Audio (MPEG, AES. AC3 etc.)
Verification Stage (At what stage would they QC files? like Ingest, Post transcode, Post Edit, before Playout etc.)
Is there any requirement for running any minimum number of simultaneous tasks for QC? (like say 10 parallel file based ingest etc.
Does the customer require high availability (HA) option in Baton?
Baton HA provides redundancy to the QC system to minimize downtime in case of HW or system failure.
Please share with us any additional document that can enhance our understanding of the customer requirements.
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