HPA Tech Retreat: Emerging Standards Enable Interoperability
February 13, 2015
HPA Tech Retreat: Emerging Standards Enable Interoperability
By Debra Kaufman
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015
During yesterday’s HPA Tech Retreat, I moderated a panel on two emerging production standards: DPP and IMF. Although SMPTE standard IMF (Interoperable Master Format) is familiar to many in the industry as a single, interchangeable master file format that allows for flexible versioning, very few in our industry know about DPP (Digital Production Partnership), a new British standard for B2B file exchange. Our discussion tracked the evolution and potential overlap of the standards, and how they are currently being used in the industry…