masterView continues to expand its feature set.

25-27 October 2011 in Los Angeles, booth # 507

Once again, Metaglue demonstrated new product features. Oliver Morgan had many informative meetings and interactions with out customers and partners. He showed off new updates in Diffuser, brand new support for LTFS in MXFixer and AS02 in MXFixer and masterView.

7 - 11 September 2011 Amsterdam

Ian Baker and Neil Dunstan met with many partners, clients and resellers. They demonstrated many new product features and explored challenges and opportunities with our many valued customers.

For MXF file quality control, version 2.3.8 supports long filenames on wrapping and shows the name of short tags in Hex View.

11th-14th April 2011, Las Vegas

Oliver Morgan and Neil Dunstan met with partners, clients and resellers at the show.

Metaglue is now shipping postView V1.0, a Linux based DNxHD player that won't tie up your Avid system.

First deliveries of this new real-time MXF player for MPEG2 H.264 & AS-03 files have been made.

Metaglue demonstrated integration of the emerging AS-02 and LTFS standards using BXF and MXF. February 14 - 18, 2011 in Rancho Mirage, CA

Now with improved error detection. MXFixer is quickly described as the Oscilloscope / Signal generator for MXF.

3D support for Avid files included in this client-driven feature set.

MXF players for broadcast and post with easy to read display at low cost

Lexington, MA –1st June 2010 - Metaglue has announced the introduction of two MXF viewers in time for IBC, Amsterdam 10th-14th September 2010, masterView™ for broadcast and postView™ for post.

Read the Press Release

3D support for Avid files included in client-driven feature set.

Lexington, MA –28th June 2010 - Metaglue announces the immediate availability of MXFactory™ Version 3. MXFactory creates Avid compatible MXF files from a wide range of video formats. It can be used as both a stand-alone system and in integrated workflows to speed up the ingest process.

Read the Press Release

The Material eXchange Format offers efficiencies

Neil Dunstan recently contributed an article to the Broadcast Engineering World Edition.

The article discusses how operational efficiencies can be achieved through the use of the evolving MXF Application Standards.

Read the article on the Broadcast Engineering website

Metaglue has released the beta version of its first
real-time MXF player for MPEG2 H.264 & AS-03 files

This cost-effective operational tool shows:

• Video in SD and HD
• Eight channels of audio
• Vertical Interval controls
• Subtitles

Read more about masterView

Final development of our integrated MXF QC tool is well under way.

If you require a QC tool for file-based media, which:

• Has a user friendly interface
• Is designed for an operational environment
• Provides viewing of MXF files
• Brings automation to support your QC and review process
• Has the potential to integrate along your whole program path

We will keep you informed about the final release.

Matt Beard joins Metaglue as Principal Developer.

Matt brings 15 years of broadcast software
engineering expertise.

We recently welcomed Matt as an official full-time member of the Metaglue team. Based in the North East of Scotland,
Matt has been a collaborator on a number of Metaglue projects including development of our MXF Library into a fully fledged system—which as an open source solution is now integral to a considerable number of industry products.
 
Read Matt’s Bio

Metaglue personnel attended the HPA Technical Retreat for a first showing of new technology to help the automation of Quality Control 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 was on public show for the first time in the HPA Demo Room.

Oliver and Julian Ramm, Metaglue’s new West Coast representative, were in attendance.

Oliver also presented at the Breakfast Roundtables to discuss Program Versioning with AS-02 and Program Distribution with AS-03.

The HPA Tech Retreat was be held at Rancho Mirage 16th -19th February 2010.

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.

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 ...

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Broadcast Engineering published this white paper piece by Neil Dunstan in their May 2006 edition.
Download a pdf of the white paper.

Read the article in the Broadcast Engineering online edition.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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