Emerging Film Industry Standards to Watch: IMF, ACES and MXF

Here are file exchange standards and formats (aside from DCI) that we should keep an eye on:

Interoperable Master Format (IMF) – Led by USC’s ETC

http://www.imfforum.com/IMF_Forum/Home.html

http://www.etcenter.org/imf-spec/

 

Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) – Developed by AMPAS and ASC

http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/projects/aces.html

https://github.com/ampas/aces-dev

 

Material Exchange Format (MXF) “Wrapper” – SMPTE Standard that seems more capable than MOV files and is more often used by filmmakers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Exchange_Format

http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q3_MXF-2.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Ed Lantz on December 4, 2012 at 5:09pm

One other format from Martin Howe called DPX that is also used in the film industry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Picture_Exchange

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000178.shtml

Permalink Reply by Ed Lantz on February 14, 2013 at 5:57pm

Here is another format- EXR - recommended by Brad Thompson of Spitz Creative Media:

OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), released under a free software license similar to the BSD license.[1]

It is notable for supporting 16-bits-per-channel floating point values (half precision), with a sign bit, five bits of exponent, and a ten-bit mantissa. This allows a dynamic range of over thirty stops of exposure.

Both lossless and lossy compression of high dynamic range data is also supported.[2]

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