Return-Path: Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5475176 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:25:25 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.10] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596F915410F for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 08:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] Lossless movie format From: Brendan Bolles In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:25:21 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On May 13, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Steve Oakley wrote: > UMF pronounced as in have you got any umph ? :) .... also know as = Universal Media Format >=20 > UNC Universal New Codec More thoughts on naming....there are already things called POM, = including a file format used by a Java development system (pom.xml). = Wikipedia has a whole list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom It would be nice to have a name that was unique, like OpenEXR is. Other = names that popped into my head early on include OpenMovie and OpenMOV, = maybe using the .omv extension. UMF isn't bad. Obviously POM is what = I'm still favoring. It was also pointed out to me that what I'm proposing to do is similar = to these MXF "Application Specifications": http://www.amwa.tv/projects/application_specifications.shtml The current ones do not meet our needs, but I should probably add "MXF = for Visual Effects" or something. I think re-branding the format is = still a good idea though, as "AS-13 MXF" isn't too sexy. Brendan