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Conform Requests

There are currently two types of conform request, audio or timed text (timed text separates to either subtitles or closed captions). Regardless of the type being requested, creating the request is basically the same.

The key points of a conform request are:

  • Type - this will be one of audio, subtitle or closed-captions
  • Required Language - the language of the dub or timed text required for the region
  • Vendor - will be one of either FooEngine or Zoo Digital. All conforms should stay in house unless otherwise confirmed
  • Source assets - most of the time there will be two source assets attached, a video asset (proxy), and the source localisation asset. Two assets is not a limitation, it is just the most common, there may be more than two on occasions

Creating a conform request

For timed text conform requests, a skeleton request is created once a media order record, for a region that takes subtitles, is linked to an episode record. Once the source material has arrived and has been prepped (as well as mezzanine and proxy created) the conform request setup can be completed.

To complete the setup of a conform request, the source assets need to be connected (in the case of a timed text request this will be the proxy from the prepped source, and the supplied timed text file for the required language). The easiest way to complete the required linking, is to link the proxy to the conform request and then the request to the timed text asset.

Once the assets are linked, it is mandatory to provide the Foo ID for the media order. This means that once the conform request is completed the conformed timed text file will download directly to the order rather than into a source bucket where it will wait to get manually trafficked.

With all the request fields populated now set the vendor. Where possible vendor should remain as FooEngine, only set to Zoo Digital if we do not have the capacity or time to complete them.

The following video shows an example of completing the request setup for one season across four regions:

Loom recording