scope:

This document specifies a new Interoperable Master Format (IMF) Application as a specialization of the IMF Framework to improve UHDTV program workflows in broadcasting stations mainly in terms of processing time and storage capacity, enabling late editorial changes to a completed master program file to be carried out efficiently.

The new IMF Application targets UHDTV image essence coded as an AVC stream and audio essence coded as a linear PCM stream with reference to the program exchange standards used by, but not limited to, Japanese broadcasting stations.