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= Architecture =

AtThe the heartcore of IMF is the Composition, illustrated in the first image, which consists of a single Composition Playlist and a collection of Track Files. Each Composition corresponds to a single audio-visual master.

[[File:IMF Composition (CPL) Example.png|alt=An IMF Composition is defined by a Composition Play List|thumb|IMF Composition Example]]

Each Track File contains a single kind of essence corresponding to a single aspect of the presentation. For example, a first Track File might contain the primary video program while a second might contain Spanish stereo audio and a third English subtitles. Track Files use a constrained version of the MXF OP1a format [[Material Exchange Format]]<ref name=":1" />

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== History ==

The need for IMF arose from various projects in the film and television industries<ref>{{Cite web |title=© 2011 AmberFin Limited Loose Coupling for Multipurpose Distribution Bruce Devlin Chief Technical Officer. - ppt download |url=https://slideplayer.com/slide/7416420/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=slideplayer.com}}</ref> that identified component-based working as a more efficient mechanism for handling the very large volumes of very large files created when delivering cinema and television content around the globe<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blog |first=Netflix Technology |date=2017-04-19 |title=The Netflix IMF Workflow |url=https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-imf-workflow-f45dd72ed700 |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref>. With help from the [[Entertainment Technology Center]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=ETC |url=https://www.etcenter.org/imf-version-1-0-launches/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.etcenter.org}}</ref>, the [[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers|SMPTE]] created the first version of the standard in 2013. The IMF User Group (IMF UG) was created by the [[Hollywood Professional Association]] shortly after and the IMF UG fosters active discussions between content owners, technologists, logistics specialists and software providers on best current practise for delivering large volumes of localised content in a resource efficient way. The IMF UG has created an IMF explainer in miultiplemultiple languages<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=EXPLAINER: Interoperable Master Format (IMF) – IMF UG |url=https://www.imfug.com/explainer/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== References ==