Mike Palmer

SMPTE Australia, Sydney - July 24, 2013 Presenting the paper: "Increase the Value of Media Content by Enabling “Video Follows Text” Drag and Drop Workflows Between Diverse Systems and Locations"

As I joined the AP in 1998 I was tasked to work with industry leaders to create a standard way of integrating broadcast production equipment with modern newsroom computer systems.

At the time no standard existed which could provide near real-time control synchronization of media sequence between a newsroom computer system and other systems such video servers and graphics devices for playback. There was also not a standard for including third party preview and edit functionality in… Show more

As I joined the AP in 1998 I was tasked to work with industry leaders to create a standard way of integrating broadcast production equipment with modern newsroom computer systems.

At the time no standard existed which could provide near real-time control synchronization of media sequence between a newsroom computer system and other systems such video servers and graphics devices for playback. There was also not a standard for including third party preview and edit functionality in newsroom computer systems.

The MOS Protocol Group produced those standards through the generous contribution of people and resources from more than 100 vendors over the first 15 years of the project.

Today, MOS is the defacto open standard for integrating media production and distribution equipment with newsroom computer systems.
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An outgrowth of fostering the industry open standard MOS Protocol Group was a proprietary effort to foster and support a growing community of vendors and customers wishing to integrated with ENPS via MOS.

From the onset we acknowledged that in order to be successful this effort must provide benefit to the customer, to the vendor partner and to ENPS. In short, the customer needed to receive considerable value and the vendor partner and ENPS needed to make money.

Value was… Show more

An outgrowth of fostering the industry open standard MOS Protocol Group was a proprietary effort to foster and support a growing community of vendors and customers wishing to integrated with ENPS via MOS.

From the onset we acknowledged that in order to be successful this effort must provide benefit to the customer, to the vendor partner and to ENPS. In short, the customer needed to receive considerable value and the vendor partner and ENPS needed to make money.

Value was delivered to the customer through the design of an open standard that enabled the functionality the customer needed across a range of vendors, thus also providing the customer choice.

ENPS received synergistic value by integrating well with a large number of vendor partners through a standard protocol, which also reduced development and support costs.

Partners benefited from the synergistic value of working well not only within ENPS but also within other newsroom systems which also supported the open MOS Protocol.

To further add value, ENPS provided a dedicated team of extremely talented integration experts who were assigned to work with individual vendors. These team members provided design, development and testing support and also served as the point of contact for mutual joint marketing efforts.

A product of this effort was the ENPS Integration Guide which served as an industry directory of vendors supporting MOS along with the specific features supported by each.

Key to the long term success of the project was the development of close vendor relationships that allowed both parties to work through technical issues in front of customers in high pressure environments.

I was ultimately responsible for a global team of integration experts based in London, Washington and San Francisco. Customers and Vendors often engaged this group as consultants in the design of new and upgraded systems. Show less

Broadcast Engineering Interview with Mike Palmer (video) - September 2012 http://bit.ly/UJhFrJ

"David Austerberry speaks with Mike Palmer, Director ENPS Design & Integration Strategy, Associate Press, about user generated content and social media."


NAB Show - April 2012 http://bit.ly/UmEqDL

"If I Can See It, I Should Be Able to Use It: Connecting Broadcast Production Systems with Social Media, UGC and Web Production Systems"


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Broadcast Engineering Interview with Mike Palmer (video) - September 2012 http://bit.ly/UJhFrJ

"David Austerberry speaks with Mike Palmer, Director ENPS Design & Integration Strategy, Associate Press, about user generated content and social media."


NAB Show - April 2012 http://bit.ly/UmEqDL

"If I Can See It, I Should Be Able to Use It: Connecting Broadcast Production Systems with Social Media, UGC and Web Production Systems"


NAB Military / Government Conference - April 2012 http://bit.ly/UJhbSw

"Creating Video-Centric: Briefings with Real-time Input

A description of how COTS systems can package Briefings containing recorded and real-time video in a variety of formats for store and forward or live distribution. This will also explain how real-time cross-platform Story-Centric workflows developed for breaking news by commercial news organizations can be applied to meet Military Mission and Event-Centric communication requirements. There will be a focus on the description of time-sensitive workflows, the technical standards and integration points required to deliver with high QOS, and discussion of solutions enabled by a range of vendors." Show less

TVB Europe: AP ENPS to tackle ‘content tide’ - October 2012 http://bit.ly/U6aMQH

TV news journalists are being “overwhelmed” by an ocean of raw, constantly changing and largely uncurated content that new tools from newsroom systems vendor AP ENPS aim to address.

I was invited to participate in strategic planning for the AP's first B to C online content product, the AP Online Video Network.

Jim Kathman led this effort which ultimately resulted in a $12M online video business during his tenure.

My contributions were in the area of production and distribution workflow and integration.

This team was awarded the AP Chairman's Prize in 2006