White Papers & Reference Documents

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• Agile Media Blueprint (AMB) Discussion Document (pdf, 1.58Mb)

Advanced Authoring Format

• "AAF" - EBU Technical Review (pdf, 270k)

• Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format (pdf, 530k)

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AMWA Specifications

• 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)

Applications for AMWA Specifications

• RadiantGrid paper on What to look for in a transcoding platform (pdf, 294k)

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FIMS (Framework for Interoperable Media Services)

• Tying It All Together - A watershed moment in the Media Industry (pdf, 372k)

• AMWA/EBU FIMS: Joint Task Force to Seek a Framework for Interoperable Media Services (pdf, 530k)

• The Service Oriented Architecture: A tool for building interoperable media services (pdf, 197k)

• Commercial Content Production & Service Oriented Architectures (pdf, 495k)

• The Business Case for FIMS (pdf, 383k)

• SOA for Broadcasters: How modern software systems can serve media businesses (pdf, 458k)

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Management of Metadata for Video Workflows (Commercials and Long form content)

• 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)

MXF Format

• Encoding Data into MXF files: BER and KLV encoding (pdf, 669k)

• The Structure of an MXF file: The Physical view (pdf, 669k)

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