MXF Info can also analyze MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DV and AES3 essence headers.

DVCPRO HD is codified as SMPTE 370M ; the DVCPRO HD tape format is SMPTE 371M, and the MXF Op-Atom format used for DVCPRO HD on P2 cards is SMPTE 390M.

Video is stored either as native DIF bitstream or wrapped into an audio / video container such as AVI, QuickTime and MXF.

* MXF-DV wraps DV video into MXF container, which is presently used on P2-based camcorders ( Panasonic ) and on XDCAM / XDCAM EX camcorders ( Sony ).

Material eXchange Format ( MXF ) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards.

MXF is a " container " or " wrapper " format which 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 full timecode and metadata support, and is intended as a platform-agnostic stable standard for future professional video and audio applications.

MXF is in the process of evolving from standard to deployment.

Currently, MXF is fairly effective at the interchange of D10 ( IMX ) material, mainly because of the success of the Sony eVTR and Sony's eVTR RDD to SMPTE.

Additionally, many MXF systems produce split-file A / V ( that is, the video and audio stored in separate files ), and use a file naming convention which relies on randomly generated filenames to link them.

Not only does this exacerbate the issue of knowing exactly what is in an MXF file without specialized tools, but it breaks the functionality of standard desktop computer techniques which are generally used to manipulate data on a level as fundamental as moving, copying, renaming, and deleting.

Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer and MXF4Mac, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, Front Porch Digital, Harris, mxfSPEEDRAIL, Omneon, Quantel, Rhozet, Sony Vegas Pro, Sorenson Squeeze Telestream FlipFactory, Thomson Grass Valley GrassValley EDIUS and K2.

Panasonic's P2 MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Dalet, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, MXF4mac for Final Cut Pro, mxfSPEEDRAIL and P2Soft from OpenCube Technologies.

Canon claims that its flavor of MXF is fully supported by major NLE systems including Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Grass Valley EDIUS.

MXF is also used as the packaging format for Dolby Digital Cinema and is used in the STANAG specification documents.

The file extension for MXF files is ". mxf ".

The Macintosh File Type Code registered with Apple for MXF files is " mxf ", including a trailing space.

PiTiVi is the first open source video editor to support the Material Exchange Format ( MXF ).

* MXF DeMuxer from MXF-SOLUTIONS is a DirectShow filter for de-multiplexing MXF file, and provides frame accuracy seeking within the file.

* MXF Muxer from MXF-SOLUTIONS is a DirectShow filter for multiplexing media streams into MXF file.

* MXF Desktop is a free software application from AmberFin that adds MXF awareness to PCs running Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating systems.

* theScribe LITE is a simple software application from MOG Solutions that allows to preview MXF files plus to change the MXF descriptive metadata

* MXF Time Code Editor is free software application from Blue Lucy Media which allows users to read, and set, the start time-code value of an MXF file as well as view / set the frame rate.

* MetaFuze ( Windows only ), a standalone application to convert files ( R3D, DPX, TIFF ) from film scanning, CGI systems or RED camera into MXF media files.

Furthermore, the currently popular MXF export tools ( i. e. the ones that are free or cost the least ) will not allow the user to create a stereo AES file within the MXF wrapper, nor will they allow the user to add free-text annotation to the MXF file so created ( in order, for instance, that the next user of the file be able to interpret his or her intentions ).

CinemaDNG ( intended by Adobe and others to be an open file format for digital cinema files ) exploits MXF as one of its options for holding a sequence of raw video images.

* FFmpeg, an open source project added support for muxing and demuxing of MXF and MXF D-10 in FFmpeg 0. 5, released in March 2009.

* MXF SDK from MXF-SOLUTIONS is an API for MXF based content and metadata handling which includes parsing, generating, insertion, and partial restores.

** 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 )

Native MXF access in Apple's Final Cut Pro and other Mac OS X applications can be achieved by using the MXF Import QT component from MXF4mac.

While MXF uses a KLV ( Key Length Value ) format for storage, AAF uses the Microsoft Structured Storage system.

* IRT MXF Analyser is an analysis tool to validate the standard compliance of MXF files and to export the complete file structure as XML.

DIF blocks are the basic units of DV streams and can be stored as computer files in raw form or wrapped in such file formats as Audio Video Interleave ( AVI ), QuickTime ( QT ) and Material Exchange Format ( MXF ).

All types of media file formats, from QuickTime DV MPEG AES / EBU MXF through Serial Digital Interface, OMFi, AAF, OpenEXR, to 4k DPX files are supported.

The two data-recording camera systems which produced MXF at that time, Sony's XDCAM and Panasonic's DVCPRO P2, produced mutually incompatible files due to opaque subformat options obscured behind the MXF file extension.

There are an increasing number of professional NLE's that can work with MXF files natively including Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro 3. 1 or above, Sony Vegas, and GrassValley EDIUS or via import operations like in Final Cut Pro using the Sony XDCAM Transfer plug-in.

It enables: Microsoft Windows Media Player to play MXF files ; easy viewing of key metadata within an MXF file via the right-click Properties command in Windows Explorer ; WAV, MPEG and DV formats to be " wrapped " as essence into an MXF file.

* XFReader is a simple Player from OpenCube Technologies that runs under Windows and enables users to play back all MXF files on a display unit or an SDI Video Screen.

It is based on the MXFTk Reader Direct Show filter which allows MXF files to be managed in Windows Media Player.

MXF Studio also allows the users to edit descriptive metadata of the existing MXF files.

* MXF Tailor from Blue Lucy Media is a Windows service that allows MXF wrapped files to be cut and spliced in the file domain.