What happens when you realize in the middle of a mass digitization project that most of your video assets have multi-track production audio instead of finished mixed audio, and your vendor doesn't offer a service to address the issue? Digitizing the Carlton Pearson Collection for the Harvard Divinity School produced just such a conundrum. This workshop will walk through a case study of the process of identifying problems from vendor work, QC and production workflows that had to be put into place to correct the issues that were surfaced as the project progressed, including a look at the technology stack that was developed internally in response to these issues and the necessary solutions, including a full GUI video editor that was developed for QC of audio and video and for implementing mass top/tail editing of assets while offering individual edit decision points. From problem identification to audio mix to video trimming to close captioning using AI solutions and project deposit to preservation repositories, the project team had only 3 months to complete the work on just shy of 4000 assets.
