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About

Warner Music Sweden AB (previously Metronome Records) is a Swedish record company and label, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Preserving a Legacy: Restore Roxette’s Iconic Catalog

Warner Music took a major initiative to digitize and restore the entire tape archive of Roxette – one of Sweden’s most legendary pop acts.

The cinematic restoration effort takes place in collaboration with Fyra K Media and involves scanning over 200 rolls of original 16mm and 35mm film from Roxette’s iconic music videos.

To ensure the highest quality preservation, final masters are delivered in high resolution ProRes 4444 SQ, with many tracks also mixed in Dolby Atmos.

Pain points

No existing MAM system could handle the huge HDR master files – facilitating speedy and reliable file transfers, combined with metadata extraction and transcoding of proxy media.

Solid file sharing abilities were required for lab vendor to be able to access the work area.

A very important part of workflow was to present the final result to stakeholders, in highest quality possible – in other words: the chosen solution had to be able support streaming the final media

 

The chosen solution

Warner decided to use accsyn as the main platform – both during the restauration work and for long term archival:

  • The film project is created in the accsyn Media Vault providing a storage folder for all media.
  • The film is digitised(scanned), restored, Q/C:ed and ingested into the vault.
  • Metadata is extracted, a proxy is transcoded and media is tagged as needed by operators.
  • A web stream is created and being sent to stakeholder for approval.
  • Clients can extract clips and still images in different shapes and forms directly from within the platform, to support productions of various forms or targeting social media campaigns.
  • Vendors uses accsyn File Sharing to download and process the masters, sending clips back using accsyn Delivery.
  • The film then resides in the vault, preserved for the future, with additional cold storage backups being made.

 

Screenshots

Warner/Roxette - Media projects view
Warner/Roxette - Example web stream.
Warner/Roxette - Example lab order from within accsyn

Sample work

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Summary

With masters properly logged in accsyn, Warner is given full control of their valuable media assets – no matter their size.

Thanks to accsyn’s fast, secure and reliable file transfer protocol, transporting media is painless.

The web streaming functionality presents a secure way of sharing media, at highest quality possible,

Statement

Warner Music and Accsyn in the work with the Roxette material

Warner Music uses Accsyn to distribute proxy files to various partners. Currently, extensive work is underway to digitize all existing tape recordings with Roxette, with the aim of preserving the material and enabling new, mastered and restored versions.

The system has proven to be both fast and user-friendly, which facilitates collaboration with editors and others involved. Since we all work with common time codes and have access to an integrated chat function, it is easy to give and receive feedback in real time.

Our masters are handled in the ProRes 4444 SQ format, and for many of the songs there are also mixes in Dolby Atmos. The system makes it smooth and secure to send material, which is crucial in a project of this scale.

We are also collaborating with Fyra K Media and accsyn in a large project where all original film (16mm and 35mm) from Roxette’s music videos will be scanned. In total, this involves over 200 rolls of film. Three of Roxette’s biggest songs have already been recreated in 4K HDR, and the material will also be available for use in future productions.

 

Warner Music Sweden

Additional resources

Warner Music
ROXETTE @ YOUTUBE
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