A media content cross-referencing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code. The hardware processor executes the media cross-referencing software code to receive data identifying multiple media assets, identify a media content including the media assets based on the data, and obtain a preliminary version of the media content. The preliminary version of the media content includes metadata identifying an original source media of each of the media assets. The hardware processor further executes the media cross-referencing software code to map each of the media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata. The mapping cross-references each of the media assets with its respective original source media.
BACKGROUND
In order to make potential consumers aware of the future availability of media content presently in production, promotional segments of the media content, such as video clips of movie or television (TV) content for example, may be generated. When those promotional segments are generated, preliminary versions of the media content, such as rough cut or draft versions of TV content, for example, are often used to identify the particular shots or other media assets to include in the promotional segments.
However, the preliminary, or rough cut, versions of the media content used when identifying the media assets to be included in the promotional segments are typically below production quality, and may not be suitable for distribution to consumers. As a result, after a promotional segment has been approved, but before its distribution, higher quality versions of the media assets included in the promotional segment must be obtained from the original production camera footage. Moreover, shot markers, i.e., markups referencing a specific frame of the original camera footage, might also be added to the rough cut, but can lose their meaning in a final production version of the media content, which is often a modified version of the media content relative to the preliminary version. In the conventional art, the process of locating and extracting the media assets from a rough cut or carrying forward the markups into a final production version of media content based
1. A media content cross-referencing system comprising: a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory; a media cross-referencing software code stored in the system memory; the hardware processor configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to: receive data identifying a plurality of media assets; identify a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data; obtain a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets; and map each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media.
11. A method for use by a media content cross-referencing system including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code, the method comprising: receiving, using the hardware processor, data identifying a plurality of media assets; identifying, using the hardware processor, a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data; obtaining, using the hardware processor, a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets; and mapping, using the hardware processor, each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media.
21. A media content cross-referencing system comprising: a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory; a media cross-referencing software code stored in the system memory; the hardware processor configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to: receive data identifying a plurality of media assets; identify a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data; obtain a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the preliminary version of the media content includes a plurality of markups indexed to a timecode of the preliminary version of the media content; map each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media; map the plurality of markups indexed to the timecode of the preliminary version of the media content to a timecode of a copy of a different version of the media content; and modify the copy of the different version of the media content to include the plurality of markups.