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

IMF State of the Union (Spring 2021)Download

Component-based workflows are taking hold, but with many workflows remaining on-prem only and with significant investment planned ahead. Join us, see the details results of the survey and drive the future of professional media workflows.

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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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

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

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

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

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/

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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