Today’s OpenTimelineIO Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting will cover the following topics:

- Explaining the roles of the TSC.

- How can new people/companies join the TSC.

- Requests from Dreamworks & Autodesk to join the OTIO TSC.

- Next steps in ASWF process.

This meeting will largely be procedural. Next time we plan to talk about project roadmap.

Conference call details: https://lists.aswf.io/g/otio-discussion/topic/invitation_opentimelineio/33038174

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Joshua Minor (he-him)

OpenTimelineIO Technical Steering Committee Chairperson
joshm@...

Yes, the meetings are open to the public and you are welcome to join in and/or ask for a topic to be on the agenda.

Here are my notes from today's meeting:

Attendees:

Joshua Minor (Pixar)

Stephan Steinbach (Pixar)

Eric Reinecke (Netflix)

John Mertic (Linux Foundation)

Cory Omand (Disney ASWF TAC + Pixar)

Michel Eid (Autodesk)

Josh Burnell (Dreamworks)

Sean Wallitsch (Dreamworks)

Discussed ASWF, TAC, TSC structure.

- OTIO Technical Steering Committee is made up of individuals steering the direction of this project

- ASWF & TAC exist to support projects, like OTIO, with infrastructure, guidance, etc. not to meddle or direct projects within ASWF.

- Per the TSC charter, Contributors can become Committers and become voting members of the TSC - though votes are rare.

- Anyone is welcome to attend TSC meetings (usually video conference) and participate without formally joining the TSC.

Dreamworks

- Dreamworks wants to be more involved with OTIO and contribute more.

- Using OTIO to round-trip from Avid Media Composer through a pipeline to RV and back again.

- Using their own AAF adapter and RV plugins, but migrating to the OTIO standard ones.

- Also using OTIO for validation and comparison.

- Treat OTIO as the "item of record" for a cut.

- Looking to contribute more to the AAF adapter, and RV integration.

- Pipeline is similar to Pixar's

Autodesk

- Autodesk wants to be more involved with OTIO and contribute more.

- Using OTIO for persistence and transport internally within Shotgun and Shotgun Create

- Working to refactor internal cut data model to become OTIO

- Internal Flame adapter (Flame then interchanges with RV)

- Have added custom schema for many things, including:

  - review and annotation

  - unified coordinate system (resolution, size, time, color)

  - multi-resolution source media (e.g. a clip with highres, proxy, etc. media)

- Some overlap with OpenClip media metadata

- Want to add/contribute much of this to OTIO so these things become standard and can be used for interchange outside Autodesk products.

- OTIO is particularly interested in Autodesk's media schema (resolution, stream/channels, etc.)

RV

- We discussed some details of the several OTIO/RV integrations.

- OTIO has a one-way adapter: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/blob/master/contrib/opentimelineio_contrib/adapters/extern_rv.py

- We would like to move towards this instead: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/pull/395

- OTIO is looking for feedback & code review from Autodesk on the code linked above.

- Ideally Autodesk could take ownership of the RV/OTIO integration and/or ship OTIO support in RV natively

AAF 

- OTIO is looking for help making AAF support more robust, and for community engagement with Avid

Examples:

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/issues/523

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/issues/541

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/issues/535

https://github.com/markreidvfx/pyaaf2/pull/35

- Netflix and Dreamworks are looking to see if they can help with these. 

- Pixar has approached Avid, asking for technical assistance with AAF.

- Anyone with expertise in this is welcome to help us out or offer advice.

ASWF next steps

- We need to complete the OTIO TSC Charter

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/blob/master/process/charter_template.md

- Needs agreement from TSC members

- Needs agreement from Pixar legal, as part of handing OTIO over to ASWF 

- Meeting between Pixar legal and Linux Foundation legal regarding Apache license, and TSC charter, is scheduled.

Next meeting will focus more on roadmap and next steps for the project.

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Joshua Minor (he-him)

OpenTimelineIO Technical Steering Committee Chairperson
joshm@...

On Aug 29, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Flehner Heen <flehnerheener@...> wrote:

Hi!

Will there be some kind of summary from these meetings and is it possible to "sit in" on them from time to time?

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 16:13 Joshua Minor <joshm@...> wrote:

Today’s OpenTimelineIO Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting will cover the following topics:

- Explaining the roles of the TSC.

- How can new people/companies join the TSC.

- Requests from Dreamworks & Autodesk to join the OTIO TSC.

- Next steps in ASWF process.

This meeting will largely be procedural. Next time we plan to talk about project roadmap.

Conference call details: https://lists.aswf.io/g/otio-discussion/topic/invitation_opentimelineio/33038174

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Joshua Minor (he-him)

OpenTimelineIO Technical Steering Committee Chairperson
joshm@...