Date: 2013-04-07

Location: The Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Road Las Vegas, NV, USA

• GenArts Inc, represented by Gary Oberbrunner and Alan Lorence
• Assimilate Inc, represented by Peter Huisma
• RE:Vision Effects, represented by Pierre Jasmin and Pete Litwinowicz
• Sony Creative Software, represented Dennis Adams and Chuck Rentmeesters

• Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy
• Peter McCaulay and Matt Caravella, Boris FX

Minutes

• Quorum present, meeting brought to order.
• Reappointment of Directors
  • Directors reappointed by show of hands:
    • Peter Huisma, Secretary
    • Pierre Jasmin, Gary Oberbrunner, Directors
• Company Accounts presented : approved
• Reviewed status of organization:
  • Company address change is now complete
  • Bank account has been moved and we have all necessary access
  • Membership fee collection is now back up and working
    • Decision made to keep fees annual; simplifies accounting for some companies
    • We will invoice in September for the 2013-2014 membership year
  • New accountant has been hired
    • Finances are in process: need to figure out income tax issues, if any
• Current members list:
  • The Foundry, Filmlight, Assimilate, GenArts, RE:Vision Effects, Sony Creative Software and Vidmaker.
• General Business
  • It was agreed that next year we should announce the meeting via broader PR.
  • It was agreed that all members should try to attend the AGM.
  • Proposal to spend up to 2000 pounds from general funds to move openeffects.org wiki to Wordpress
    • passed on show of hands
    • Gary volunteered to get this started
    • New site should point to github more prominently
    • Ideally make it easier to find and organize materials
  • Discussion of how to promote OFX: we have funds for this.
    • Decision to reinvestigate once wiki is converted.
  • Discussion of possible new members: NewBlue? Boris?
  • A question was asked: is there a place on the site to upload examples:
    • Best place for now is via github
  • Discussion of the state of various OFX proposals:
    • It was agreed that all extensions must have good Doxygen documentation in the header file(s)
    • UI interface processing callbacks (for long-lived plug-in UIs)
      • Would need a “safe” callback
      • Could be hard for some hosts to implement
      • GenArts and Assimilate to investigate feasibility
    • Ability to localize progress updates (Sony proposal)
      • not needed (most plug-ins don’t localize)
    • Render Quality settings (Sony proposal)
      • Discussion was had around how many values, and what they should mean.
      • Decision made to reduce this to two levels (preview and final) and then folks might be interested
    • Multi-view (The Foundry and Sony proposals)
      • Re:Vision and Sony to re-propose as simple stereo extension, then work with Assimilate to see that it makes sense in other apps.
    • Deep image support
      • Deferred til after multi-view is approved
    • Peter Litwinowicz discussed the need for hosts to support animated parameters, including choice parameters (typically implemented with combobox-like UI). Some hosts don’t and this complicated their plug-ins. Re:Vision would like all hosts to do this. They would also like to see Vegas support image layers as inputs.
    • Sony has an “image” param type; they will work with Re:Vision to refine it into a proposal.
    • The group then discussed other possible extensions, such as a data pool that plug-ins could put information in and other plug-ins could retrieve it later. This would allow general point tracker plug-ins to pipe into corner-pin plug-ins, for example. Certain data types could be pre-defined by the OFXA, such as point track data.
    • Sony raised a question about whether plug-ins would like to know the colorspace of inputs? Some discussion was had, without a firm proposal. It is more complicated than it appears.
  • Proposal to offer TuttleOFX (open-source OFX host) and/or other relevant open-source projects one year free membership, as an open-source contributor.
    • Question: what would the organization like in return, if anything?
    • Any such members should be approved by the current members
  • A question was posed as to how many OFX members support Mac. Almost all do.