Technical Presentations

• The AAF Development Team at Avid provided an overview of The State of AAF (PowerPoint, 90k)
  
• The session began with a presentation on the Technical Track (PowerPoint, 76k)
• Discussion continued on Wednesday in the Technical Track with more presentations (PowerPoint, 53k)
• Sony provided an update on AAF work to date (PowerPoint, 95k)
• Details were provided on Avid's current AAF Test Procedures
• The group discussed Extensions to AAF (PowerPoint, 22k)
• A vote on Specification Extensions for AAF Specification 1.5 was taken. (Excel, 22k)

Marketing Presentations

• User presentations were provided by the BBC (PowerPoint, 221k), NOB (PowerPoint, 210k)
• We had video presentations from CNN and Turner Entertainment (Word, 21k)
• Avid described the relationship between AAF and OMFI and the transition between the two (PowerPoint, 933k)
• Grass Valley provided an update on the GXF interchange file format (PowerPoint, 511k)
• Ian Gordon of Discreet had a presentation on Open Source (PowerPoint, 266k)
• Chuck Garsha gave us an update on the Digital Cinema work which is ongoing within SMPTE (PowerPoint, 110k)

Other Documents

• Ian Gordon presented a possible NAB demo workflow document (PDF, 36k) along with an illustration of a non-aaf environment (PDF, 17k)
• During a brainstorming session, development priorities were collected (Word, 20k). An informal pole was taken. Here are the results (Excel, 43k).
• An MXF overview describes some of the points of the MXF interchange format. (PowerPoint, 667k)