Advanced Media Workflow Association. 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.

Work 

As part of AMWA's collaborative process AMWA specifications are published on GitHub.

AMWA's Framework for Interoperable Media Service (FIMS) integrates a common approach to integrate hardware devices and software components in TV production facilities

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.

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.

AAF and Material Exchange Format (MXF) are successors to Open Media Framework (OMF).

Published specifications 
AMWA publishes interface specifications, data models, best current practices, application specifications and informative documents.

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. The first NMOS specification (IS-04) was published in 2016.

References

External links

AMWA Official website
NMOS Specifications

2000 establishments in Wisconsin
Trade associations based in the United States
Organizations based in Madison, Wisconsin
Organizations established in 2000