Oliver has 25 years experience as an engineer, manager and technical
strategist in broadcast television, developing and introducing innovative
systems for post production. His experience includes five years as Senior
Consulting Engineer with Avid Technology and seven years as Director of
Engineering at Sony Corporation's Advanced Development Centre. In the 1980s,
he was Director of Engineering for Convergence Corporation, one of the
pioneering companies of videotape editing systems.
Oliver is a principal architect of the Advanced Authoring Format and the
Material Exchange Format. He is a board member of the AAF Association, with
special responsibility for Developer members. Oliver chaired the SMPTE
Wrappers and Metadata Technology Committee from its inception through the
creation of the SMPTE Metadata Registry and the Material Exchange Format,
and continues to participate strongly in standards activities at SMPTE and
elsewhere.
Matt has a Masters Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Portsmouth.
During the past 15 years Matt developed MPEG pre-processors at Snell & Wilcox,
worked on the standardization of MXF at BBC R&D and went on to found freeMXF.org to develop the MXFLib library.
Matt continues to work on MXF and metadata standards within SMPTE, while providing
support to users of Metaglue's MXFplus service and developing new components for Metaglue's product range.
