MXF
Material eXchange Format (MXF) is a file format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards.
A brief summary of MXF
MXF is a "container" or "wrapper" format that supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file. MXF has been designed to address a number of problems with non-professional formats. MXF has full timecode and metadata support, and is intended as a platform-agnostic stable standard for future professional video and audio applications.
The MXF Standards Base Documents* SMPTE 377M: The MXF File Format Specification (the overall master document)* SMPTE EG41: MXF Engineering Guide (A guide explaining how to use MXF)* SMPTE EG42: MXF Descriptive Metadata (A guide explaining how to use descriptive metadata in MXF) Operational Patterns* SMPTE 390M: OP-Atom (a very simple and highly constrained layout for simple MXF files)* SMPTE 378M: OP-1a (the layout options for a minimal simple MXF file)* SMPTE 391M: OP-1b* SMPTE 392M: OP-2a* SMPTE 393M: OP-2b* SMPTE 407M: OP-3a, OP-3b* SMPTE 408M: OP-1c, OP-2c, OP-3c Generic Containers* SMPTE 379M: Generic Container (the way that essence is stored in MXF files)* SMPTE 381M: GC-MPEG (how to store MPEG essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 383M: GC-DV (how to store DV essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 385M: GC-CP (how to store SDTI-CP essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 386M: GC-D10 (how to store SMPTE D10 essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 387M: GC-D11 (how to store SMPTE D11 essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 382M: GC-AESBWF (how to store AES/EBU and Broadcast Wave audio essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 384M: GC-UP (how to store Uncompressed Picture essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 388M: GC-AA (how to store A-law coded audio essence data in MXF using the Generic Container)* SMPTE 389M: Generic Container Reverse Play System Element* SMPTE 394M: System Item Scheme-1 for Generic Container* SMPTE 405M: Elements and Individual Data Items for the GC SI Scheme 1 Metadata, Dictionaries and Registries* SMPTE 380M: DMS1 (a standard set of descriptive metadata to use with MXF files)* SMPTE RP210: SMPTE Metadata Dictionary (the latest version is available here: http://www.smpte-ra.org/mdd/index.html )* SMPTE RP224: Registry of SMPTE Universal Labels
See also AAF
External links http://www.pro-mpeg.org/ http://mxf.info/ http://www.irt.de/mxf/
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