Industry association promoting interoperability for IP-based professional media systems
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]
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
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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
- IS-01: AAF C++ SDK reference implementation.
- IS-03: Media Authoring with Java (MAJ) API
- IS-04: NMOS Discovery & Registration API
- IS-05: NMOS Device Connection Management API
- IS-06: NMOS Network Control
- IS-07: NMOS Event & Tally API
- IS-08: NMOS Audio Channel Mapping
- IS-09: NMOS System Parameters
- IS-10: NMOS Authorization
- IS-11: NMOS Stream Compatibility Management
- IS-12: NMOS Control Protocol
Data models
- MS-01: AAF Data Model
- MS-02: Mapping from AAF objects to Structured Storage
- MS-03: Structured Storage Specification
- MS-04: A model for identity and timing in AMWA NMOS specifications.
- MS-05-01: NMOS Control Framework
- MS-05-02: NMOS Control Block Specs
Best current practices
- BCP-001-02: AMWA Specification Process
- BCP-002-01: Natural Grouping of NMOS Resources
- BCP-003-01: Secure Communication in NMOS Systems
- BCP-003-02: Authorization in NMOS Systems
- BCP-003-03: Certificate provisioning in NMOS Systems
- BCP-004-01: Receiver Capabilities
- BCP-005-01: EDID to Receiver Capabilities Mapping
- BCP-006-01: NMOS With JPEG XS
Application specifications
- AS-01: AAF Edit Protocol
- AS-02: MXF Versioning (was MXF Mastering Format)
- AS-03: MXF Program Delivery
- AS-05: AAF Effects Protocol
- AS-07: MXF Archive & Preservation
- AS-10: MXF for Production
- AS-11: Media Contribution File Formats
- AS-12: MXF Commercial Delivery
Informative Documents
- INFO-001: Control / Monitoring / Management Architectural Sprint
- INFO-002: Security Implementation Guide
- INFO-003: Sink Metadata Processing Architecture
- INFO-004: Implementation Guide for DNS-SD
- INFO-005: Implementation Guide for NMOS Controllers
- INFO-006: Implementation guide for NMOS Device Capabilities Control
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.