Announcement – IMF UG

Report: IMF State of the Union (Summer 2021)

Download our summer 2021 report on the state of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), covering announcements, new specifications, upcoming events, open source…

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Best practices: Packaging and Delivery [new edition]

The UG has published a revision to its best practices on Packaging and Delivery.

https://pub.imfug.com/002-packaging-delivery/

VIDEO: IMF Output Profile List (OPL) implementation primer

Report: IMF State of the Union (Spring 2021)

Download our spring 2021 report on the state of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), covering announcements, new specifications, upcoming events, open source…

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EXPLAINER: Interoperable Master Format (IMF)

The worldwide community of the UG has come together to explain why the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) exists and how it works… in 9 languages.

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Report: IMF State of the Union (Winter 2021)

Welcome to our first quarterly report on the state of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), covering:

announcements
specifications
products
events
open source

IMF UG State of the Union (Winter 2021)Download

Pulse survey 2021

The IMF User Group is conducting its annual user survey. Your participation will help the community better address your IMF and component-based workflow needs. Please complete the following before March 12, 2021:

https://forms.gle/umRhtJBRcLc2GeqU9

Best practices: Packaging and Delivery Glossary

The UG has published a glossary for terms used in packaging and delivery operations.

https://www.imfug.com/TR/pkg-and-delivery/

Best practices: multichannel audio in IMF

The UG has published best practices on authoring multichannel audio track files, including the use of the MCA framework to label and routing audio channels.

https://www.imfug.com/TR/audio-track-files/

New edition: Timecode Best Practices

The UG has published a new version of its timecode best practices.

https://www.imfug.com/TR/timecode-in-imf/

Based on feedback from users and implementers, timecode tracks are now prohibited in IMF Track Files:

processors that create Track Files shall not emit MXF Timecode tracks in any IMF Track File.
processors that validate Track Files shall warn but not reject an IMF Track File if it contains an MXF Timecode track.
In all other cases, processors shall ignore MXF Timecode tracks