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The Advanced Media Workflow Association (formerly The AAF Association) was founded in 2000 to foster the implementation of AAF in the industry.
The AAF Association maintains the AAF sopecification and provides an OpenSource reference implementation.
Metaglue Corporation has been involved with the AAF Association since the beginning and contributes to the
specification and the reference software.
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) develops and maintains
formal standards for many of the fundamentals of television and motion pictures. These include the structure of the
SMPTE Metadata Registry and KLV Encoding (upon which AAF and MXF depend), and the the MXF specification.
The full catalog of SMPTE standards is available by a subscription service. Of particular interest are:
- SMPTE 335M Metadata Dictionary Structure
- SMPTE 336M KLV Encoding
- SMPTE 395M Metadata Groups Registry
- SMPTE 401M Labels registry Structure
- SMPTE 377M MXF Format Specification
(and many companion documents)
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The SMPTE Registration Authority provides a public repository for several labelling standards, including the SMPTE Metadata Registry,
SMPTE Unique Material Identifiers (UMIDs), and MPEG Format Identifiers.
Diffuser provides an interface to the SMPTE Metadata Registry for offline reference, submission of new public registration
requests, and for managing personal dictionaries overlaying the public standards.
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The Pro-MPEG Forum conceived the MXF Specification in partnership with the AAF Association and assisted SMPTE with the
preparation of the formal standards.
The Pro-MPEG Forum now sponsors the MXF Implementer's Group.
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freeMXF.org is dedicated to providing cross-platform open source MXF software.
Metaglue supports the activities of freeMXF.org and contributes code to SourceForge.
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The Institut fur RundfunkTechnik provides information and validation services for MXF,
using custom and commercial tools from MOG Solutions.
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Avid's award-winning MetaSync technology provides access to time-oriented metadata on the Avid timeline.
Metaglue is an Avid MetaSync partner. Look for MetaSync plugins in future releases of AAFixer.
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publishes a vast range of technical books, including
"The File Interchange Handbook".
This book provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to a range of file formats
used in professional production, including AAF, MXF, ASF and Quicktime.
Oliver Morgan is one of the many file format experts who contributed to this book.
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