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Following Metaglue's continued support of the Advanced Media Workflow Association, Metaglue has now moved from Associate Member to Principal Member of this organisation.

Oliver Morgan was re-elected to the Board of Directors.

Please visit http://www.aafassociation.org/ for further details.

The conference, Mastering Digital Workflows, organised by Broadcast magazine took place in London on 6th March. Neil Dunstan of Metaglue gave a presentation on behalf of the AMWA about "Setting Industry Standards for Digital Workflows" to the audience of senior production, operational and technical strategists.

With the increasing use of MXF across the industry, many manufacturers are working to include this as an interconnect standard for their products. With finite staff resources, companies often look for external support on an “ad hoc” basis for specific projects of this type – which allows their own engineers to concentrate on company specific developments.
 
Since it started in 2002, Metaglue has provided bespoke MXF consultancy to many organisations in many markets. However, we are aware that an “off the shelf”, cost effective, service is more appropriate in many cases. So employing Metaglue’s past experience, we can now offer an MXFplus package to help organisations implement MXF in their products and systems.
 
MXFplus is a software development kit (SDK) which builds on the standard MXFLib and provides extra libraries to simplify MXF developments. At Metaglue we never like to make things more difficult or expensive than necessary. So our aim is to provide a service which:-

• Can be scaled to exactly satisfy the customer’s needs
• Is commercially straightforward and easy to administer
• Has no hidden or retrospective costs
• Includes all source code to the libraries
• Delivers what you want, when you want it

If you feel that your organisation could benefit from this type of service, please so we can explore your requirements!

Download the product information sheet.

MXFactory was developed to speed up ingest of content into Avid systems, converting DPX files into Avid MXF files for instant ingest.
 
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As more and more assets are being managed and manipulated in the file domain, processes are becoming increasingly automated and thus invisible. Overall Quality Control of the asset is becoming a significant cost factor in the lifecycle of any audio visual production. Creating an audit trail of QC information and asset lifecycle information in MXF allows highly automated reliable systems to be built with a minimum number of human touch points. This session will illustrate the principals and technology involved.

As usual, Metaglue will be attending the exhibition and we will be pleased to meet old and new friends. In a break with tradition, we will not be using a booth, which gives us much greater freedom to meet end users and manufacturers at places that suit them.

If you'd like to meet during
the show, please contact before Friday April 11th.

From Saturday 12th onwards, please ring Neil's mobile at +44 7834 768492.

Managing Director, Ian Baker, will be a featured presenter, speaking on the topic of:

"Making the technology work – taking the right steps to ensuring interoperability in workflows"

The summit takes place at BAFTA in London.