During a movie production, digital data have to be processed in many ways:
- H264 compression
- resize
- color space changes
- noise reduction
- format translation
- compositing
- sequences extraction
- retiming
- …etc

These operations have to be automated and optimized for batch processing, with the ability to launch them in sequences for specific workflows.

The variety of operations to deal with, and of tools available in studios, compelled us to pick a mechanism that could be extended and to rely on an open standard. This is why we have based our image processing library on the Open FX protocol, and have created the  TuttleOFX open source project.