MovieLabs
MovieLabs (Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc.) is the technology research joint venture of the major Hollywood studios. It is the author of the OMC (Ontology for Media Creation), the data model that governs this production.
Facts
- full name: Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc.
- type: not-for-profit technology research and development organization
- founded: ~2006 (Palo Alto area, California, USA)
- ownership: joint R&D venture of the major motion picture studios (Paramount, Sony, Universal, Disney, Warner Bros.)
- flagship work: OMC (Ontology for Media Creation), the 2030 Vision, software-defined workflows
Role in FRAMES and One Small Crawl
- FRAMES project Champion and co-proposer (with rai and ebu). One Small Crawl is an IBC Accelerator 2026 proof-of-concept inside FRAMES (one-small-crawl).
- Author of the ontology this production runs on: the Agent Production Bible states OMC was developed by MovieLabs with DreamWorks Animation, Marvel Studios, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. (omc-ontology).
- The authoritative OMC export ingested into this wiki (per-shot OMC JSON, agent registry, naming schema, OTIO timeline) is a MovieLabs-format deliverable (naming-schema, ai-agent-pipeline, animatic-workflow).
References (web)
- show.ibc.org - “FRAMES: Federated Retrieval, Agentic Media Environment…”
- IBC2026 Accelerator press release (champion list)
- movielabs.com - OMC and 2030 Vision publications