“It's a Retrieval Problem, Not a Storage Problem.”

Josef Marc, Chi-Long Tsang, Victor Steinberg, Maxim Levkov

MXF standards SMPTE ST 377-1:2011 and ST 422:2006; SMPTE Technical Committee TC-31FS AHG ST 422 Revision (JPEG2000 in MXF); the Advanced Media Workflow Association; and related SMPTE standards all clarify MXF implementations for the most active use cases. To illustrate technical advances, this paper presents laboratory observations of MXF video clips from multivendor sources alongside mathematically generated test patterns, master- and archival-grade video content, and an MXF metadata viewer. The paper focuses especially on reformatting JPEG2000, uncompressed, AVI, and MOV master/archive files into MXF for interchange and preservation. Video clips are shown.

Published
2013-10
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
JPEG2000, MXF, reformatting, transcoding, archives, master files, interchange, preservation
DOI
10.5594/M001506
ISBN
978-1-61482-953-9