Delivery

Source material must be uncensored, and content delivered as a long-play single asset, not split into multiple parts.

PSE compliance testing (to ITU-R BT.1702-1 guidelines) is mandatory for all animated content.

IMF Specifications

Deliveries must comply with SMPTE ST 2067-21 Interoperable Master Format (IMF) Application #2E.
Packages with immersive sound must also comply with SMPTE ST 2067-201 Immersive Audio Bitstream Level 0 Plug-in.
IMF Packages should be created from color timelines or intermediate mezzanine assets, delivering UHD or HD resolutions as appropriate.
Final IMF package components include: Asset Map XML, Packing List XML, and one or more Composition Playlist XML files per audio language.
For Dolby Atmos titles: include image virtual track, IAB virtual track, and optionally surround (6ch) and stereo (2ch) virtual tracks.

Audio Specifications

For Dolby Atmos IMF deliveries, 5.1 and 2.0 channel-based audio tracks are optional but 5.1 is required separately for dubbing reference.
29.97 or 59.94 IMF segments must have frame counts divisible by 5 to preserve integer audio samples; trimming may be needed.
Track files with timed text essence are not currently supported. Video Specifications
Deliver video at native capture/editing frame rates without 3:2 pulldown flags. ● Maintain original aspect ratio; no acceptance of alternate aspect ratio versions. ● Video must contain full program with 1 second of black and silence at head and tail.
Redeliveries’ supplemental IMPs may include video inserts or full replacements as appropriate.
Video must exclude commercial blacks, color bars, slates, ads, ratings, warnings, branding, or overlays except URLs in end credits.
Video must be non-subtitled (main and end titles allowed but no burned-in dialog subtitles).
Video mastered in Dolby Vision must embed L1 dynamic metadata for color volume transform frame-by-frame. HDR10-only mastered material is unsupported.

For full details, GEM partners should consult the Partner Help Center Delivery Specifications and their project-specific delivery lists.