Advanced Media Workflow Association

{{Short description|Industry association promoting interoperability for IP-based professional media systems}} {{Infobox organization | name = Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. (AMWA)<ref name="AMWAabout">{{Cite web|url=https://www.amwa.tv/about|title=About|website=AMWA}}</ref> | image = | image_border = | image_size = | caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | formation = 2000 | type = Industry association | headquarters = Bothell, WA | location = United States | membership = | language = English | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name = Brad Gilmer | website = {{URL|http://www.amwa.tv}} }}

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.<ref name="AMWAebuannounce">{{Cite web|url=https://www.smpte.org/news-events/news-releases/amwa-ebu-smpte-announce-groundbreaking-collaboration-drive-future-media|title=AMWA, EBU, SMPTE Announce Groundbreaking Collaboration To Drive Future Media Standards & Interoperability Across Digital Media Ecosystem}}</ref>

== Work ==

As part of AMWA's collaborative process, AMWA specifications are published on GitHub.<ref name="AMWAgithub">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/AMWA-TV|title=AMWA - Advanced Media Workflow Association|website=GitHub}}</ref><ref name="NABshow2019">{{Cite web|url=https://vsf.tv/events_archive/2019-04_NABShow2019/Monday/1500%20Peter%20Brightwell%20-%20IPShowcase%20NAB%202019%20NMOS%20Gilmer%20Brightwell.pdf|title=NABShow2019 - IP Showcase Theater - AMWA NMOS: The whole story}}</ref>

AMWA's Framework for Interoperable Media Service (FIMS) integrates a common approach to integrate hardware devices and software components in TV production facilities <ref name="AMWAebujnt">{{Cite web|url=https://fims.tv/resources/AMWA_FIMS_WP_webA4.pdf|title=AMWA/EBU FIMSJoint Task Force to Seek a Framework for Interoperable Media Services}}</ref> <ref name="tvtech">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/amwa-ebu-to-demonstrate-serviceoriented-media-workflow-at-nab-show|title=AMWA, EBU to demonstrate service-oriented media workflow at NAB Show|first=David Austerberry 06|last=April 2011|website=TVTechnology|date=6 April 2011 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="bdcstbrnmos">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/11535/what-is-nmos|title=AMWA, NMOS and open standards - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast|first=The Broadcast|last=Bridge|date=August 13, 2018|website=www.thebroadcastbridge.com}}</ref><ref name="SMPTEnmos">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8610041|chapter=Scalability and Performance of the AMWA IS-04 and IS-05 NMOS Specifications for Networked Media|first1=R.|last1=Porter|first2=G.|last2=Sylvester-Bradley|title=SMPTE 2018 |date=October 24, 2018|pages=1–20|via=IEEE Xplore|doi=10.5594/M001842|isbn=978-1-61482-960-7 |s2cid=86693610 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="AMWAaaf">{{Cite web|url=https://www.amwa.tv/aaf|title=AAF|website=AMWA}}</ref><ref name="EDLmax">{{Cite web|url=http://www.edlmax.com/FormatAaf.htm|title=EdlMax - AAf Format|website=www.edlmax.com}}</ref><ref name="LOCaff">{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000004.shtml|title=Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Object, Version 1.1|date=December 16, 2011|website=www.loc.gov}}</ref>

AAF and Material Exchange Format (MXF) are successors to Open Media Framework (OMF).<ref name="EDLmax"/>

== Published specifications ==

AMWA publishes interface specifications, data models, best current practices, application specifications and informative documents.<ref name="AMWAspecs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.amwa.tv/specifications|title=Specs|website=AMWA}}</ref>

=== 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 Architecture * MS-05-02: NMOS Control Framework

=== 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.<ref name="AMWAabout"/> The first NMOS specification (IS-04) was published in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Releases · AMWA-TV/is-04 |url=https://github.com/AMWA-TV/is-04/releases |access-date=2025-06-17 |website=GitHub |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

==External links==

*[http://www.amwa.tv/ AMWA Official website] *[https://specs.amwa.tv/nmos NMOS Specifications]

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