Open Media Framework Interchange

Open Media Framework (OMF) or Open Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) is a platform-independent file format intended for transfer of digital media between different software applications.

The following applications are known to support OMF importing and/or exporting:

  • Adobe Audition CS5.5
  • Adobe Premiere CS5.5
  • Avid
  • SONAR
  • Cubase
  • Final Cut Pro 7
  • Fairlight
  • Lightworks
  • Logic Pro
  • Nuendo
  • Pro Tools
  • Digital Performer
  • SADiE
  • MAGIX Sequoia
  • Samplitude
  • Automatic Duck
  • REAPER 4

Avid systems generally store video in OMFI format, and audio in AIFF.

The OMFI is a common interchange framework developed in response to an industry-led standardisation effort (including Avid – a major digital video hardware/applications vendor)

Like QuickTime, the primary concern of the OMFI format is concerned with temporal representation of media (such as video and audio) and a track model is used.

The primary emphasis is video production and a number of additional features reflect this:

  • Source (analogue) material object represent videotape and film so that the origin of the data is readily identified. Final footage may resort to this original form so as to ensure highest possible quality.
  • Special track types store (SMPTE) time codes for segments of data.
  • Transitions and effects for overlapping and sequences of segments are predefined.
  • Motion Control – the ability to play one track at a speed which is a ratio of the speed of another track is supported.

The OMFI file format incorporates:

  • Header – includes indices for objects contained in file
  • Object dictionary – to enhance the OMFI class hierarchy in an application
  • Object data
  • Track data

Famous quotes containing the words open, media, framework and/or interchange:

    “It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
    —Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

    “Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night.”
    —Howard Brenton (b. 1942)