omf
Open Media Framework (OMF) is a data-exchange standard used in professional video and audio post-production to move material and project information between non-linear editing systems and related tools. Developed in the 1990s by the Open Media Framework Initiative, a consortium of industry vendors and users, OMF was designed to enable interoperability by packaging media essence (video and audio) and associated metadata, such as edit decision lists and timeline information, into portable interchange packages.
OMF defines the structure and metadata model that allows editors to transfer media between systems without
In practice, OMF facilitated cross-platform exchange during the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly in multiplatform workflows,