The plans to make Avid Technologies' OMF (Open Media Format) compatible with Apple's QuickTime format (see Microbytes, October 1992 BYTE, page 30)
Avid recently announced two renewed efforts to make OMF--a format for the exchange of video, audio, graphics, and animation--and QuickTime work together. Greg Clukey, OMF program director at Avid, says that by year-end, Avid will release bridging software that lets you move multimedia and data compositions back and forth between QuickTime and Open Media Framework Interchange digital-media file formats. Avid says it is also working to make QuickTime a public data type within OMF files so that video producers can incorporate QuickTime files as objects into their movies.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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