Annual Review for

Open Review Initiative

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Open Review Initiative

Key Links:

Github:

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenRV

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/xstudio

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/EncodingGuidelines

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/ori-shared-platform

Website: https://openreviewinitiative.org/

Artwork: https://artwork.aswf.io/

Mailing lists:

open-review-initiative-discussion@lists.aswf.io

Slack: #open-review-initiative

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OpenSSF Best Practice Badge URL’s:

X-studio

OpenRV

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Brief Description:

An umbrella project containing multiple review oriented project repositories. As of 8/23 two content review applications, an encoding test suite, and a shared infrastructure repo for future collaboration.

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TSC Chairperson:

Erik Strauss: erik.strauss@gmail.com

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TSC Members and Affiliations:

Guillaume Brossard (ADSK)

Bernard Laberge (ADSK)

Ted Waine (DNEG)

Rami Hodge (Storm Studios)

Sam Richards (WDI)

Sean Wallich (AWS)

William Wira (WDAS)

Cottalango Leon (SPI)

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Contributed by:

Contributions by DNEG, Autodesk, Walt Disney Imagineering, and Sony Pictures Imageworks

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Key Achievements in the past year for Open Review Initiative

2025 Deliverables

• Spec for OTIO based annotation exchange/persistence
• Demo of OTIO based live synchronized annotations between arbitrary players
• A new website with all 6 projects and areas for demo videos etc..

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ASWF Project collaboration:

• OpenAPV testing and cross collaboration
• Two ORI TSC members now OpenAPV TSC members
• Cross-collab on ML-WG as first target is review based tooling and potential future RPA plugin candidate

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Key Achievements in the past year for Open RV

Over the last year the OpenRV has:

• OpenRV
• CI updates on all platforms
• VFX Reference platform alignment
• LTS policy
• Improved loading and playback performance

Contributions to OpenRV

Commits/Resolutions to OpenRV

Key Achievements in the past year for X-Studio

• X-Studio 1.0
• Major refactor of UI/UX subsystems and official product release.
• Builds for Mac/Linux/Windows

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Contributions to X-Studio

Commits/Resolutions to X-Studio

Key Achievements in the past year for Encoding

Over the last year the ORI Encoding Guidelines has:

• Fleshed out an editorial page, with a number of community contributions.
• Added pages for MJPEG, HEVC, AV1, VP9 and VP8 encoding.
• Created an HDR Encoding Guide
• Created a whitepaper to encourage industry usage of VP8, VP9 and AV1 rather than HEVC.
• Profiled two new choices for Interframe codecs:
• OpenAPV – Advanced Professional Video Codec
• HTJ2K – JPEG2000 - High-Throughput JPEG2000

Contributions to Encoding Guidelines

Commits/Resolutions to Encoding Guidelines

Launch of RPA

• Official Release of the RPA project to the Shared Platform Repository
• Shared Plugin API
• Multiple sample plugins inclusive of color correction, playlist management and more.
• The goal for RPA is to eventually build a community space with OSS plugins available for download and use.

Contributions to Shared Platform

Contributions to Shared Platform

Things that might happen next year

• An Open Source drawing library added to the project
• One of our contributor studios continues to work on a potential future contribution of a drawing library for review tools. (fingers crossed)
• Downloadable Binaries for OpenRV and X-Studio
• Extension of the OTIO based collaboration protocol

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Becoming a real boy…�We need a TAC vote on moving us from sandbox status to incubation…

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Areas the project could use help on

• Users are still desperate for downloadable binaries.
• The lack of a try before you buy for non-technical consumers is hampering adoption of both players.
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• Licensing rights to 3rd party Codecs continue to be the barrier to binary distributions.
• We are currently generating a bespoke per-OS codec inclusion matrix to be able to generate artifacts that map to a suitably licensed collection of codecs for testing OpenRV and xStudio.

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Feedback on working with ASWF

TAC Open Discussion