Conformance of media content to original camera source using optical character recognition

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions for instantiating a computer system having a processor and a memory to conform offline video content to original source frames, wherein the instructions configure the processor to implement a computer process comprising the steps of

• ingesting a video clip within the memory of the computer system, the video clip comprising a series of frames and having a plurality of shots and shot boundaries therein and further including frame identification information burned into a perimeter of a plurality of the series of frames;
• identifying via operations within the processor the shot boundaries between adjacent frames within the video clip;
• locating via operations within the processor burn-in areas in the frames adjacent to the shot boundaries that contain burn-in information;
• perceiving via operations within the processor character strings within the burn-in areas in the frames adjacent to the shot boundaries;
• recognizing via operations within the processor visually perceptible characters within the character strings;
• separating via operations within the processor the visually perceptible characters;
• performing via operations within the processor an optical character recognition using a trained classifier on the separated visually perceptible characters to identify the frame identification information represented by the characters;
• correcting errors in the identified frame identification information by
• determining cadence, consistency, or both, between timecodes in the frame identification information in adjacent frames;
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• adjusting timecodes of inconsistent frames or out of cadence frames to conform with the consistency or cadence of other frames within a particular shot in the video clip;
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• storing the frame identification information as a metadata file in a relational database within the memory for use with an edit decision list application to identify source image frames corresponding to the frame identification information to create a high resolution instantiation of the video clip.