When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As broadcasters move from videotape to file-based operations, it is apparent that some form of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Figure 1. Essence and metadata are contained in a wrapper. The things you see and hear, along ...

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has released AS-11: MXF for Contribution, supported by Kevin Burrows (pictured), DPP. AS-11 specifies a vendor-neutral subset of the MXF file format to ...

This white paper describes the changes to the Archive Preservation MXF file format made as part of the BBC Archive Preservation Project to support Digital Betacam (DigiBeta) and similar standard ...

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has released Application Specification, AS-10, ‘MXF for Production’. This specification, built on the Sony XDCAM HD Format (SMPTE RDD-9), allows an ...

The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) holds the promise of drastically reducing the number of different versions of a file that a video publisher needs to deliver to viewers—a promise so strong that ...

The BBC Archive holds around 315000 D3 tapes. The D3 Preservation Project aims to transfer around 100000 of these tapes to MXF files over a six year period starting November 2007. This paper describes ...