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2010
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February: See us at the HPA Tech Retreat
Metaglue personnel will be at the HPA Technical Retreat for a first showing of new
technology to help the automation of QC for file based material.
The new software will allow media companies to automate part of the QC process across the whole file based workflow to considerably cut costs and employ human resources more efficiently. It will be on public show for the first time in the HPA Demo Room.
Oliver plus Metaglue’s new West Coast representative, Julian Ramm, will be available each day to talk about the new technology. If you’re attending this event, you will find them at the scheduled presentations or during one of the many breaks for networking. If you’d like to arrange a personal demonstration please contact Julian prior to, or at the event.
Oliver will also be present at the Breakfast Roundtables, on Thursday morning (18th February) to discuss Program Versioning with AS-02, and on Friday morning discussing
Program Distribution with AS-03.
As usual the HPA Tech Retreat will be held at Rancho Mirage, this year from16th -19th February 2010.
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January: Metaglue on the US West Coast
Julian Ramm is appointed as West Coast representative.
With a continuously expanding customer base on the West Coast,
Metaglue has recruited Julian Ramm to provide local support for existing and future clients.
With career experience stretching across the broadcast, post and film industries in the UK and USA,
Julian will be the local sales contact and provide a hot link back to development teams.
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January: Metaglue appoints Scene&Heard as Western US Marketing Consultant
Lexington, MA
12th January 2010 - Pioneering MXF and metadata company Metaglue Corporation
has appointed Scene&Heard as its Western US Marketing Consultant. The L.A.-based
PR and Marketing agency will also provide sales support to the Hollywood media
community and across the western region ...
Read the Full Press Release
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2009
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October: Oliver Morgan delivers SMPTE Paper
Managing Content Integrity for MXF
At the October SMPTE Technical Conference in Hollywood, Oliver Morgan presented a paper
outlining a new standards based approach for managing Quality Control of file based content.
This will allow media companies to automate part of the QC process to considerably cut costs
and employ human resources more effectively.
Visit
http://www.smpte.org/ for more about SMPTE.
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April: Oliver Morgan Presention on MXF AS-03 at the 2009 PBS Technology Conference
Oliver Morgan presents a paper on the MXF Application Specification at the annual PBS Technology Conference.
MXF AS-03 is an Application Specification to optimise MXF file structure for program delivery.
It is intended for direct playout via a video server, for example, and is based on a PBS profile for MXF program delivery to their member stations.
View the presentation.
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March: Article in the SMPTE Journal
MXF “Mit Out Essence”
Oliver Morgan's article apeared in the March 2009 issue of the SMPTE Journal magazine.
Visit
http://www.smpte.org/ for more about SMPTE.
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March: Ian Baker Chairs “Metadata Solutions” Panel at London Conference
Ian Baker joined Broadcast magazine’s “Managing Digital Workflows” conference to lead a panel discussion on “Metadata solutions for fast, reliable and secure file-based transfer”.
The panel comprised James Weeks (Executive Producer, New Media, Sky News), Kevin Jones (Senior Research Scientist, DSTL) and George Luff (Director of Process Improvement, BPI Improve).
The topics discussed included:-
- Choosing the right metadata to facilitate tracking and finding the file you need
- Tackling interoperability issues in workflows –what can you do to minimise the pain of incompatibility?
- Practical steps you can take to ensure secure file-based transfer
- Maintaining quality control in your metadata to ensure the consistent performance of your digital workflow
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January: SMPTE wins Emmy award for MXF development
Oliver Morgan was among the recipients to receive an Emmy Award for Development and Standardization of File Formats for Video and Audio at the January 7th awards ceremony.
Oliver was a principal architect of MXF and chair of SMPTE W25 throughout the development of MXF.
Visit
http://www.smpte.org/ for more about SMPTE.
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2008
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April: Oliver Morgan presents at the PBS Technology Conference
Systemwide QC Using MXF and Metadata
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.
The Technology Conference Website
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March: Metaglue named as a Principal Member of The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA)
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.amwa.tv/ for further details.
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February: Dunstan gives presentation at Mastering Digital Workflows conference
Putting AAF and MXF to Work
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.
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2007
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September: MXFplus - The royalty free MXF software development kit
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!
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April: The Advanced Media Workflow Association
Putting AAF and MXF to Work
Metaglue is proud to announce its involvement with the MXF Mastering Format Project.
At NAB 2007, the Advanced Media Workflow Association – AMWA
(formerly The Advanced Authoring Format Association - AAFA)
sponsored the first public demonstration of this long-term initiative.
The aim of this project is to bring a fresh approach to MXF and to provide proposed,
real-world solutions for key workflows, focusing on creating a single MXF master file
from which multiple versions of a program may be created.
This rationalization project currently includes two key strands: MXF Mastering Format and the MXF Processor API.
The work, which was started two years ago by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.,
was demonstrated at the show and was open to comment and scrutiny.
The Advanced Media Workflow Association welcomes input on this technical proposal.
The full list of manufacturers which took a leading role in this MXF rationalization work is:
EMC, Marquis Broadcast; Metaglue; Omneon; Open Cube Technologies; Pro-Bel; Quantum; Snell & Wilcox; Softel; TMD.
Please visit
http://www.amwa.tv/ for further details.
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2006
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September: Metaglue at IBC 2006, Amsterdam
Once again, We at Metaglue enjoyed an insightful and successful IBC.
As metadata devotes, we are gratified to know that so many of you
are now engaged in in projects utilising this exciting new technology,
and we are excited to be in a position to contribute to your projects with our knowledge and tools.
We look forward to seeing all of you at IBC 2007!
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August: Special Promotional Summer Offer
As a special offer for new orders on Diffuser and MXFixer,
taken before October 2006, we are giving the first year's
maintenance free of charge. This applies regardless of whether
they are bought separately or together.
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July: Metaglue to present at the AAF Association Technical Awareness Event & Conference
July 11th & 12th in Burbank.
Download the event brochure.
The AAF Association will be holding its Technical Awareness Event & Conference on 11th & 12th July in Burbank.
Again we are pleased to support this event where visitors will be able to see MXFixer and MXFactory in action.
Visit the
AAF Association website for full details about this event.
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July: Oliver Morgan on Digital Production BuZZ Podcast
On Thursday July 15 at 6:32pm Pacific Time, Oliver and Brad Glimer of the Advanced Authoring Format
Association join Philip Hodgetts and Michael Horton to discuss AAF, MXF and the upcoming AAF Technical Awareness Event.
Listen to the Podcast
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June: MXFixer version 1 Released
If your organization has to manage MXF files, you probably have a requirement to check the metadata.
MXFixer has been described as "the waveform monitor for metadata".
It enables you to unwrap the file and check that the metadata is present and correct before rewrapping.
Learn more
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May: White paper appears in Broadcast Engineering magazine: "Metadata - are you keeping up?"?
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April: Ascent Media Group Chooses Metaglue
Metaglue is pleased to announce that the Ascent Media Group has extended the provision of their
Hosted Service of Diffuser by a further year and added a package of MXFixer and AAFixer to complement it.
Read the full press release.
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April: Visit us at NAB2006 Booth SL1513C
Find us at SL1513C in the Avid Developer Community.
Once again our booth will be staffed by Oliver Morgan,
Ian Baker, Lisa Coen and
Neil Dunstan.
We will be demonstrating the integrated operation of MXFixer and Diffuser
to provide a full package to extract and analyze metadata whilst comparing
it to a custom metadata dictionary before rewrapping it.
As always, we would be very pleased to see you at the exhibition and
invite you to contact us to set up a time to meet. The dates for the show this year are:
April 24-27.
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March: Metaglue announces MXFactory release
MXFactory is a family of products which creates MXF files.
Launched in a version that creates high quality proxies from ultra-high resolution telecine outputs,
the range is expanding to include other combinations.
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February: HPA Technology Retreat
Oliver Morgan participated in the Hollywood Post Alliance Technology Retreat.
Once again, Oliver lead several breakfast roundtable discussions:
• "Metadata and Workflows"
• "MXF in Production, Post-production, and Archives"
Visit the
Hollywood Post Alliance Website to learn more about the Hollywood Post Alliance.
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January: Metaglue announces MXFixer for Windows
MXFixer 30-day trial
If your organization has to manage MXF files, you probably have a requirement to check the metadata.
MXFixer has been described as "the waveform monitor for metadata".
It enables you to unwrap the file and check that the metadata is present and correct before rewrapping.
Obtain your copy or learn more.
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