Using IMF for International Distribution? What Does that Mean?

IMF is nothing to do with the International Monetary Fund. It is an Application Specification of MXF being developed within the SMPTE. The goal is to create a delivery format that meets the business needs of shipping versioned content around a country and around the world. This presentation will be in 3 parts - (1) a review of IMF technology and how it works (2) a review of IMF workflows that could exist when an IMF ecosystem exists (3) Some of the savings that might be realised by using IMF. The presentation will consider not only the file formats and processes, but also the preservation of multi-platform captions, metadata and media life cycles within MAM systems as well as the benefits that can be achieved by considering versioning from the initial concept of a programme.

Published

2015-07

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

IMF, MXF, distribution, file based

DOI

10.5594/M001614

ISBN

978-1-61482-955-3