White Papers & Reference Documents

NETWORKED MEDIA OPEN SPECIFICATIONS (NMOS)

Networked Media Systems - The Big Picture (528kb)
Pebble - Navigating from SDI to IP (11.8Mb)

AGILE MEDIA

MATERIAL EXCHANGE FORMAT (MXF)

A Quick Tour of Wrappers and MXF (pdf, 651k)
The AMWA Family of Application Specifications for MXF (pdf, 298k)
AAF to Application Specifications: How They Fit An Advanced Media Workflow (pdf, 123k)
Quick Introduction to MXF AS02 and AS03 (pdf, 944k)
Business Drivers for AS02 and AS03 (pdf, 691k)
MXF: Joined-Up Workflows & Business Efficiencies (pdf, 414k)
Accelerating Standards Development (pdf, 269k)
Avid Viewpoint: The Promise of AS-02 (pdf, 223k)
MXF for Program Contribution, AS-11 (pdf, 533k)
The Life of a Commercial, AS-12 provides solutions to the problems that arise in existing workflows (pdf, 372k)
Are Fully Digital Workflows A Pipe Dream? (pdf, 295k)
Smooth Asset Workflows, Bigfoot, and UFOs (pdf, 888k)
The pipe dream becomes real: Advertising workflows have come of age (pdf, 523k)
Encoding Data into MXF files: BER and KLV encoding (pdf, 669k)
The Structure of an MXF file: The Physical view (pdf, 669k)

ADVANCED AUTHORING FORMAT (AAF)

"AAF" - EBU Technical Review (pdf, 270k)
Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format (pdf, 530k)