File Interchange Handbook : For professional images, audio and metadata

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Summary: Handbook of TV/Film Formats for IT-based Production
Review: Brad's book (he is the editor and contributing author) is a complete introduction to file formats that are being used for TV/Film in place of and alongside traditional videotape/disk and film formats. These formats are the essential basis for an emerging file-based infrastructure for TV and film studios. The formats described in detail include AAF, MXF, GXF, ASF, DPX, and QuickTime; there is also extensive discussion about the role of metadata.

The contributing authors in this book have in fact themselves been instrumental in the creation and development of these formats; they describe in detail the current capabilities of these formats, but refer also to their potential (for example video content wrapped in a file with the associated rights management). This book is an important introduction and reference manual for engineers and anyone wanting to understand the new technology of production, postproduction, archiving and distribution.