Update from the Standards Vice President: Media Workflows
Bruce Devlin
The toughest thing about being the Standards Vice President (SVP) is that everyone expects standards to be the most important thing. This month’s Journal is all about media workflows, and I’ve yet to find any production workflow that is 100% standards-based. While it’s true that the title of the SVP job gives me a clue about my priorities, I get called on to talk to folks about workflow that may well be standards-based but is made up of many technology pieces, from open source code, through de facto delivery specifications based on Trade Association, or SMPTE Specifications that in turn depend on full standards to work. I can already hear some folks saying, “In the good old days, everything used standards,” but I beg to disagree.