UMID Applications in MXF and Streaming Media

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 125, No. 1, pp. 1–14
Abstract: This paper reports on work in the SMPTE standards community to enhance applications of the Unique Material Identifier (UMID) in the material exchange format (MXF) technology. While the latest SMPTE RP 205 specifying the UMID Application Principles was published at the end of 2014, the UMID Resolution Protocol is still under standardization. This paper demonstrates how various kinds of UMIDs in an MXF file are to be utilized to enable various UMID applications based on the UMID Application Principles. Furthermore, thanks to a type of UMID attached to every frame in an MXF file, there is a way for the UMID to be employed consistently and seamlessly between the worlds of an MXF file and a media stream composed of a sequence of frames. Some guidelines are proposed to maximize the interoperability of UMID applications in MXF and streaming media.
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18665
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18665
Author(s): Yoshiaki Shibata
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Yoshiaki Shibata is a chair of SMPTE TC-30MR Study Group (SG) UMID Applications. In 2001 Shibata met the UMID for the first time at Sony Corp. Since then, he was heavily involved and played a crucial role in the development and implementation of the UMID applications, initially for the traditional professional VTRs (HDCAM™) and then for the modern file-based media products (XDCAM™), during which he was fascinated by the potential key roles of UMID in the future file-based media production environment. At the end of 2010, Shibata left Sony, and later, founded metaFrontier.jp, LLC, Japan's first independent consulting firm specifically for the media and metadata technology. With his well-received presentation at the SMPTE 2011 Annual Technical Conference, regarding the challenges and solutions to realize an ever-envisioned UMID application in practice as a trigger, Shibata joined the SMPTE Standard Community and established the SG under TC-30MR in 2012. So far, the SG has already standardized the UMID Application Principles as the latest RP 205 for which Shibata is awarded by the ITE (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Japan), has successfully developed the UMID Resolution Protocol, which is now under SMPTE standardization, and has intensively explored the promising UMID applications specifically for the MXF technology whose deliverable is now made available online. Shibata is a member of SMPTE, ITE, and MPTE (Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan).
Keyword(s): UMID, Basic UMID, UMID Resolution Protocol, MXF, MXF Package UID, MXF Material Package, MXF File Package, MXF Generic Container
Copyright: © 2016 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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UMID Applications in Practices [Active]
For example, the optional GPS unit (HKDW-704) for the Sony HDCAMTM Camcorder (HDW-730). EXTERNAL
EBU Technical Review Special Supplement 1998, “EBU/SMPTE Task Force for Harmonized Standards for the Exchange of Programme Material as Bitstreams, Final Report: Analyses and Results,” http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/ebu-smpte-tf-bitstreams.pdf. EXTERNAL
SMPTE TC-30MR Study Group Report, “Study of UMID Applications in MXF and Streaming Media,” available at https://www.smpte.org/standards/reports. EXTERNAL
SMPTE TC-30MR SG UMID Applications, https://kws.smpte.org/kws/public/projects/project/details?project_id=90. EXTERNAL
N. Wells, O. Morgan, J. Wilkinson, and B. Devlin, The MXF Book, Focal Press: Burlington, MA, May 2006. EXTERNAL
SMPTE RP 205:2014 [Active]
SMPTE.RP210V — SMPTE RP 210v13:2012, “Metadata Element Dictionary,” https://www.smpte.org/standards. EXTERNAL
SMPTE ST 330:2011 [Superseded]
SMPTE ST 336:2007 [Superseded]
SMPTE ST 377-1:2011 [Superseded]
SMPTE ST 379 [Superseded*]
SMPTE ST 385:2012 [Active, Amended]

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