The MXF Book: An Introduction to the Material eXchange Format |  | Authors: Bruce Devlin, Jim Wilkinson, Matt Beard, Phil Tudor
Creator: Nick Wells
Publisher: Focal Press
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Sales Rank: 466516
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 416
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 024080693X
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780240806938
ASIN: 024080693X
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
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Product Description
Written by a top team of industry professionals, this must-have guide will introduce you to everything you'll need to know about MXF. The MXF Book introduces and explains the MXF standard and helps engineers write MXF applications. The book also explains the reasons behind many details of the specification documents.
* The only complete introductory resource on MXF
* Written by the key authors of the standard
* The book includes video, audio, metadata, television, film, and multimedia
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rich metadata inclusion June 5, 2006
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
MXF is an ambitious idea that has been long overdue in the film and audio industries. It harks to the common problem of how to compress and store films, and do so digitally. There are tremendous advantages in doing so, including the ability to analyse and manipulate such films with ever more powerful software. The enduring problem has been various different compression and storage standards.
The authors describe how an industry wide effort has produced MXF. It certainly took long enough; 5 years! But perhaps the deal was worth the wait. Thumbing through the book, you can see that provision has been made for very flexible inclusion of metadata. A rich format that permits sophisticated file searching based on that metadata.
Plus, there is aid for transitioning between current encodings and MXF. The aim is clearly for MXF to be a global standard.
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