White Papers & Reference Documents
Advanced Authoring Format
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"AAF" - EBU Technical Review (pdf, 270k)
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Enabling Better Media Workflows: An Overview of the Advanced Authoring Format (pdf, 530k)
AMWA Specifications
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A Quick Tour of Wrappers and MXF (pdf, 651k)
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The AMWA Family of Application Specifications for MXF (pdf, 298k)
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AAF to Application Specifications: How They Fit An Advanced Media Workflow (pdf, 123k)
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Quick Introduction to MXF AS02 and AS03 (pdf, 944k)
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Business Drivers for AS02 and AS03 (pdf, 691k)
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MXF: Joined-Up Workflows & Business Efficiencies (pdf, 414k)
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Accelerating Standards Development (pdf, 269k)
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Avid Viewpoint: The Promise of AS-02 (pdf, 223k)
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MXF for Program Contribution, AS-11 (pdf, 533k)
Applications for AMWA Specifications
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RadiantGrid paper on What to look for in a transcoding platform (pdf, 294k)
FIMS (Framework for Interoperable Media Services)
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Tying It All Together - A watershed moment in the Media Industry (pdf, 372k)
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AMWA/EBU FIMS: Joint Task Force to Seek a Framework for Interoperable Media Services (pdf, 530k)
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The Service Oriented Architecture: A tool for building interoperable media services (pdf, 197k)
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Commercial Content Production & Service Oriented Architectures (pdf, 495k)
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The Business Case for FIMS (pdf, 383k)
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SOA for Broadcasters: How modern software systems can serve media businesses (pdf, 458k)
Management of Metadata for Video Workflows (Commercials and Long form content)
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The Life of a Commercial, AS-12 provides solutions to the problems that arise in existing workflows (pdf, 372k)
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Are Fully Digital Workflows A Pipe Dream? (pdf, 295k)
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Smooth Asset Workflows, Bigfoot, and UFOs (pdf, 888k)
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The pipe dream becomes real: Advertising workflows have come of age (pdf, 523k)
MXF Format
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Encoding Data into MXF files: BER and KLV encoding (pdf, 669k)
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The Structure of an MXF file: The Physical view (pdf, 669k)