A SMPTE community for users and implementers of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standards #ispeakimf
We are hosting a panel at NAB 2024 on leveraging IMF to Prevent Repeated QC Failures.
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.
The HPA IMF UG hosted a workshop at IBC 2022 where 34 stakeholders from the broadcasting community, representing both users and suppliers, explored using the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) as the source content format in broadcast workflows.
Read our report now!
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!
Making movies is costly and time-consuming. Preserving them is critical.
The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a recognized and standardized intermediate format for making and distributing complex audio-visual content, and has emerged as a promising candidate for archiving and preserving it.
The HPA IMF User Group (https://www.imfug.com) is organizing two workshops this fall to explore this complex problem:
When: September 13 in Amsterdam, NL
Program chair: Siegfried Foessel <siegfried.foessel@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Event page: Workshop on preserving movies with IMF
When: October 25 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Program chair: Florian Schleich <fschleich@netflix.com>
Event page: Workshop on preserving and re-purposing studio productions using IMF
Submit your presentation proposals by July 1 at archive@imfug.com
Submissions from archives, content producers/owners, product manufacturers and movie professionals are welcome. All submissions should include a short abstract (3-4 sentences) and specify the target event (Amsterdam and/or Los Angeles). Presentations should have a maximum duration of 15 minutes and should focus on archival and preservation use cases and workflows.
These workshops are a unique opportunity to meet experts and implementers, and share ideas, use cases, and requirements. Admission will be open to all, with tickets available starting August 1, 2019.
We are organizing not one, but two workshops tackling the application of IMF to archival workflows.
Details at the links below.
The deadline for submitting proposed presentations is July 1. Tickets will be made available starting August 1.
Preserving movies with the Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
13 September 2019 at the Eye in Amsterdam, NL
Program chair: Siegfried Foessel
Preserving and re-purposing studio productions using IMF
25 October 2019 in Los Angeles, USA
Program chair: Florian Schleich
There are two IMF-related conference sessions at SMPTE ATC 2018:
Robust, Repeatable and Interoperable Workflows through IMF Output Profile List
When: Tuesday, October 23 at 4:15 PM
Speakers: Arjun Ramamurthy, Raymond Yeung
Automated distribution workflows based on IMF metadata
When: Tuesday, October 23 at 4:45 PM
Speakers: Richard Welsh, Tomasz Witkowski
Full program at: http://www.cvent.com/d/lgqk9t/6X
Meet IMF experts at Booth 521 in the main exhibit hall at the following times:
| Tuesday, October 23 | 12:00 – 14:00 | Open discussions |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Open discussions | |
| Wednesday, October 24 | 12:00 – 14:00 | Open discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | IMF for beginners | |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Open discussions |
Move beyond the Hu-MAM! Learn about the component-based media ecosystem, and how IMF can help with versioning and next-generation content.
Kick around ideas, and meet other users and implementers.
We are hosting a session at the IBC conference this year:
Deploying component-based workflows: experiences from the front-line
12:30-14:00 PM on Saturday 15 September 2018 in the Emerald room
The content landscape is shifting, with an ever-expanding essence and metadata repertoire, viewing experiences, global content platforms and automated workflows. Component-based workflows and formats, such as the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standard, are being deployed to meet the challenges brought by this shift. Come and join us for a first-hand account from those on the front-lines.
Speakers:
Chris Fetner, Netflix
Lucas Carboni, Fox
Sam Johnson, Disney
Usman Shakeel, Amazon Web Services
Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures Entertainment
SMPTE, in association with the Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT), is conducting a face-to-face IMF Plugfest on May 29, 2018 at the IRT in Munich.
The test subjects will be:
• Playing and creating IMF packages with IMSC1.0 captions/subtitles
• Creating and playing different versions. This will be both creating versions using elements supplied within a package
and also by the addition of a supplemental package to a main package.
• SMPTE RDD 45/ProRes image content within an IMF package.
To participate, please join the SMPTE TC 35PM Plugfest Drafting Group.
Full details at: TC 35PM May 2018 Plugfest @ IRT Announcement
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