We are hosting a fall mini-plugfest on August 25, 2025.

A plugfest is a unique opportunity to gain implementation experience with IMF and network with the members of the community. Read our explainer at https://www.imfug.com/plugfest/.

Location and registration

Thanks to Warner Bros. Discovery, the plugfest will be held in person in Burbank, CA, USA.

The plugfest will be open to members and guests, with guests being subject to the IMF UG participation rules, including a duty to keep the contents of the meeting confidential. Any result made available publicly will be anonymized.

You must register at the link below before August 18, 2025:

https://forms.gle/parW6HXgRzUr12pR9

Space is limited.

Program

10:00 Plugfest starts

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Plugfest ends

All times are in Los Angeles local time.

Topics

The mini-plugfest will focus on:

• 4K in SMPTE ST 2067-21 5ED (test vector: Harvey Landy, NBCU)
• 8K in SMPTE ST 2067-21 5ED (test vector: Mike Smith, Warner Bros.)
• Dolby Vision in ISXD (SMPTE ST 2067-202) (test vector: Florian Schleich, Netflix)
• Markers in the IMF UG scope (test vector: John Hurst, Cinecert)

Submitting and accessing content

Our plugfests are cloud first. Content will be submitted to and accessed from a shared Amazon S3 bucket.

Contacts

Michael Smith [Host]

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux [IMF UG chair]

We are hosting a fall mini-plugfest on November 5, 2024.

A plugfest is a unique opportunity to gain implementation experience with IMF and network with the members of the community. Read our explainer at https://www.imfug.com/plugfest/.

Location and registration

Thanks to NBCUniversal, the plugfest will be held in person in Burbank, CA, USA. Two virtual breakout sessions with remote participation are planned.

The plugfest will be open to members and guests, with guests being subject to the IMF UG participation rules, including a duty to keep the contents of the meeting confidential. Any result made available publicly will be anonymized.

You must register at the link below before November 1, 2024:

https://forms.gle/RwRnL3Zkmv6yz2xz5

Space is limited.

Catering is kindly sponsored by Colorfront and storage by Amazon AWS.

Program

10:00 Plugfest starts

12:00 Virtual breakout session

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Virtual breakout session

15:00 Plugfest ends

All times are in Los Angeles local time.

Topics

The mini-plugfest will focus on:

• addressing issues encountered with IMF App 2E use cases during our earlier plugfest
• test a new schema for Composition Playlist Markers with additional metadata

Submitting and accessing content

Our plugfests are cloud first. Content will be submitted to and accessed from a shared Amazon S3 bucket.

Contacts

Harvey Landy [Host, Program committee]

Michael Smith [Program committee]

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux [IMF UG chair]

Join a panel of experts on June 17, 2024 for a discussion on improving QC efficiency across the supply chain using EBU QC cards and the Interoperable Master Format (IMF)!

REGISTER TODAY!

This webinar will consist of presentations by panelists followed by a Q&A session driven by the audience. It is a follow-up to our IMF UG workshop held at IBC 2023, which highlighted the urgent need to avoid repeated QC rejections based on false positives. IMF is the worldwide standard for the interchange of component-based studio masters and EBU QC is a standardized language for expressing QC reports.

This free webinar is made possible by a collaboration of the EBU and the IMF UG.

When

June 17, 2024 from 17:00 to 18:00 pm CEST

Panelists

Fereidoon Khosravi, Chief Business Development Officer, Venera Technologies

Laurence Stoll, Co-Founder, Marquise Technologies

Andrew Dunne, Television Production and Delivery Expert, BBC

Andy Quested, co-chair EBU QC

Raymond Yeung, Head of Content Standards, Amazon MGM Studios

Moderated by Pierre-Anthony Lemieux, Chair, IMF User Group

You are invited to participate in our upcoming mini-plugfest, which picks-up where our December plugfest ended.

A plugfest is a unique opportunity to gain implementation experience with IMF and network with the members of the community. Read our explainer at https://www.imfug.com/plugfest/.

Location and registration

Thanks to NBCUniversal, the plugfest will be held in person in Burbank, CA, USA. Two virtual breakout sessions with remote participation are planned.

Registration is free but you must register, whether attending in person or remotely:

https://forms.gle/7jACEh4DW6TVc2aq5

Registration closes on June 15, 2024.

Program

9:00 Setup and breakfast

10:00 Plugfest

12:00 Virtual breakout session

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Plugfest

16:30 Virtual breakout session

17:00 Plugfest ends

All times are in Los Angeles local time.

Topics

The mini-plugfest will focus on IMF App 2E with video coded using the APP2.HT.REV and APP2.HT.IRV constraints, including:

• Lossless roundtrip from TIFF and DPX sequences; and
• RPCL progression order.

Submitting and accessing content

Our plugfests are cloud first. Content will be submitted to and accessed from s a shared Amazon S3 bucket.

The deadline for content submission is June 15, 2024.

Open to all

The plugfest will be open to members and guests, with guests being subject to the IMF UG participation rules, including a duty to keep the contents of the meeting confidential. Any result made available publicly will be anonymized.

Contacts

Harvey Landy [Host, Program committee]

Dave Deelo [Program committee]

Brian Holter [Program committee]

Mike Krause [Program committee]

Pierre-Anthony Lemieux [IMF UG chair]

We are hosting a panel at NAB 2024 on leveraging IMF to Prevent Repeated QC Failures.

• When: Sunday April 14 from 12:15 to 12:45 PM PT
• Where W3943 Connect Tech Chat Theater at the Las Vegas Convention Center

Join our panel of experts for a discussion on using IMF to avoid costly QC rejections! This is a follow-up to our IBC workshop where the urgent need to transmit expected QC failures across the supply chain was highlighted.

There is no longer any barrier for IMF in the broadcast environment! Listen to Fereidoon Khosravi, Carlos M. Carmona, Jonathan Solomon, Julian Fernandez-Campon and Pierre-Anthony Lemieux walk us through an IMF-based playout workflow deployed on AWS.

Getting started with component-based workflows? Interested in learning more about IMF? Join us on April 22 for a primer and a series of tutorials using the latest products on the market.

Update: This event, previously planned for NAB, has been turned into an online-only event. Register today!

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