As we all approach the world of universal project and media structure...more or less, it's always good to review why in the world we are doing this to ourselves and at least remember that the whole idea was ultimately to make everything easier.
The Advanced Media Workflow Association is the name of the body that is the keeper of the AAF and MXF standards that manufacturers seem to typically adopt, but not completely or in a standard way...which of course leaves the main role of these standards (transportability between applications and environments) absent in many circumstances.
Eventually however, we all know that intellectually the adoption of open standards in a uniform manner will benefit the entire production community and therefore we'll hold out hope that some day manufacturers may actually agree and implement accordingly...
In the meantime, the AMWA has an excellent AAF explanation document available for those of you interested in a better understanding of what AAF is ...and isn't.
Download the PDF here.
TimK
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