Making movies is a costly and time-consuming endeavor, thus archiving and preserving them is crucial. A suitable file type for this task is the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), a recognized and SMPTE-standardized intermediate format for the creation and distribution of complex audiovisual content. On September 13, 2019, Siegfried Foessel, head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at Fraunhofer IIS and speaker of the Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Media, will chair a workshop...
Enhanced MPEG-H Authoring Plug-In available for download
Version 2.0 of Fraunhofer’s popular MPEG-H Authoring Plug-in (MHAPI) has arrived and comes with new features such as a 3D panner, authoring of dynamic objects and the option to export to ADM (Audio Definition Model). One of the first broadcast professionals to use the plug-in was Werner Bleisteiner, Creative Technologist at German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk BR. We asked him about his experiences with MHAPI so far.
