Cakewalk to Support OMFI Technology in SONAR 2.0Company Joins Advanced Authoring Format Association July 14, 2002
Cakewalk has announced that it is currently developing support for OMFI (Open Media Framework Interchange) technology into its flagship SONAR 2.0 digital multitrack recording system. OMFI support for SONAR 2.0 is now in the alpha-testing phase at the company.
OMFI is the film, video and audio industry's standard for saving and transferring digital post-production projects between different production studios and workstation platforms. SONAR 2.0 will both import and export OMFI format files, and will be available by early fall, 2002, at no charge to all registered SONAR 2.0 owners.
The company also recently joined the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association- the organization responsible for the continuing development of OMFI-based technology. Cakewalk is the first Windows audio software company to join this influential trade association.
The AAF is a broadly-based trade association created to promote the development and adoption of AAF technology. AAF technology allows content creators, editors and rich media authors to exchange video, audio, images, text and metadata between applications, and builds on existing OMFI technology.
In addition, Cakewalk plans to support Broadcast Wave files in SONAR 2.0 at the same time that it releases support for OMFI files this fall. The Broadcast Wave Format (EBU Standard N22) allows audio material to be interchanged between different computer platforms and broadcast environments. It extends conventional RIFF WAV files by adding meta-data such as creation date and time, material identifier, and time position (SMPTE).
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