AAF Association
 Developers Conference

Conference Info:
Registration Form
Meeting Agenda
Partner Program
Hotel Accommodations
Traveling to Santa Fe
Santa Fe Attractions

 
 
Combined Sessions  
Technical Sessions  
Marketing Sessions  
     
Sunday, November 12, 2023  
5:00 - 8:00 pm Registration
7:00 - Whenever AAF for OMF'ers, Open Consultancy (Dragon Room Bar at the Pink Adobe Restaurant)

 

 

Monday, November 13, 2000
8:30 am - 9:00 am AAF - the idea
An overview of AAF Brad Gilmer - AAF Executive Director, Mark Horton - Marketing Director
9:00 am - 10:30 am

AAF - the members
An interactive session with keynote speeches from Peter Mulder, NOB, Max Gasparri, Warner Bros., Chuck Garsha, SMPTE Digital Cinema and other AAF members, with a roundup of who the different AAF members are and what technology they're producing and using followed by an interactive session on what technology is being produced

10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 12:30 PM

AAF - the technology
Presented by the AAF Development Team
A High-level Overview of what AAF Technology is and how it works, followed by a review of the AAF Software Developer's Kit

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Using AAF - A Sample AAF Application / Q&A
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch

 

 
1:30 PM -3:00 PM AAF target applications - editing, compositing, graphics, news, production, telecine, audio and content management Using the AAF API
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM AAF Customer Case Studies - BBC, CNN, Digital Cinema, NOB, Turner Entertainment Developer Kitchen (Lab)
Reading and Writing essence in AAF files

 

 

Tuesday, November 14, 2000
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Open Source Presentation - Ian Gordon (Discreet), Jeff Bedell (Avid)
8:30 am - 9:00 am Open Source Licensing/Q&A - Ian Gordon AAF Advanced Topics
9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Positioning and Promoting AAF
How AAF relates to other technologies such as OMFI (Rob Kobrin - Avid), Pro-MPEG and MXF (John Ive - Sony), MPEG-7 (Peter Mulder- NOB), QuickTime, GXF, G-Force. Planning for NAB 2001.

 Describing Edit Decisions
  Developer Kitchen (Lab)
  Describing Complex Compositions
  Developer Kitchen (Lab)
  AAF Under the Hood - Putting your own stuff into AAF
 
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
 Open Consultancy, OpenSource, NAB Demo Discussion, Offsite meeting
5:30 PM - whenever Group Dinner -- Blue Corn Cafe (3 blocks from Loretto Hotel)

 

 

Wednesday, November 15, 2000
8:30 am - 12:00 PM Overflow day - additional topics to be determined during conference Extending AAF
  From Here to NAB
  Media Composer Interchange (+ any other vendor implementations)
    Interchange Demo Specification
    Developer Kitchen (Lab)
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM END OF MARKETING-SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS AAF Advanced Topics
  Remaining Technical Track functions are optional for Marketing Track attendees (Personally, I would go to the bar...) Open Consultation
  Problems and Workarounds

 

 

Thursday, November 16, 2000
AAF Member-Only Day
8:30 am - 12:30 PM

Discussion and Vote on Open Source License Options*
Discussion of AAF Roadmap and Future Development*
AAF Specification Extensions - Formal Specification Voting*
Closing Plenary*
 

* AAF Members Only

Last updated November 2, 2023