Advanced Media Workflow Association

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Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. (AMWA) [1]
Formation2000
Type Industry association
Headquarters Madison, WI
Location
Official language
English
Executive Director
Brad Gilmer
Website www.amwa.tv

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) is an industry association focused on the content creation industry's move to IP-based architectures. AMWA promotes industry standards that allow diverse devices to discover and interoperate with each other reliably and securely. [2]

Contents

Work

As part of AMWA's collaborative process AMWA specifications are published on GitHub. [3] [4]

AMWA's Framework for Interoperable Media Service (FIMS) integrates a common approach to integrate hardware devices and software components in TV production facilities [5] [6]

Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) provide discovery, registration and control services for the SMPTE ST 2110 media over IP protocol suite, and other media over IP applications. [7] [8]

The Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is a multimedia file format for professional media creators. AAF provides cross-platform data interchange, designed for the video post-production and authoring environment. [9] [10] [11]

AAF and Material Exchange Format (MXF) are successors to Open Media Framework (OMF). [10]

Published specifications

AMWA publishes interface specifications, data models, best current practices, application specifications and informative documents. [12]

Interface specifications

Data models

Best current practices

Application specifications

Informative Documents

History

The AMWA began in January 2000 as the Advanced Authoring Format Association. The organization's name was officially changed in May 2007. [1] The first NMOS specification (IS-04) was published in 2016.

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References

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  3. "AMWA - Advanced Media Workflow Association". GitHub.
  4. "NABShow2019 - IP Showcase Theater - AMWA NMOS: The whole story" (PDF).
  5. "AMWA/EBU FIMSJoint Task Force to Seek a Framework for Interoperable Media Services" (PDF).
  6. April 2011, David Austerberry 06 (6 April 2011). "AMWA, EBU to demonstrate service-oriented media workflow at NAB Show". TVTechnology.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. Bridge, The Broadcast (August 13, 2018). "AMWA, NMOS and open standards - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast". www.thebroadcastbridge.com.
  8. Porter, R.; Sylvester-Bradley, G. (October 24, 2018). "Scalability and Performance of the AMWA IS-04 and IS-05 NMOS Specifications for Networked Media". SMPTE 2018. pp. 1–20. doi:10.5594/M001842. ISBN   978-1-61482-960-7. S2CID   86693610 via IEEE Xplore.
  9. "AAF". AMWA.
  10. 1 2 "EdlMax - AAf Format". www.edlmax.com.
  11. "Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Object, Version 1.1". www.loc.gov. December 16, 2011.
  12. "Specs". AMWA.