Material Exchange Format Operational Pattern 2a

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MXF is a media container 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 allows for different degrees of complexity within the wrapper, which are standardised and defined as Operational Patterns, and this may be a consideration for an institution considering preserving the format, hence the separation of these Operational Patterns into separate PUIDs. OP2a is intended to meet the requirements of acquisition, storage and interchange applications that are satisfied by a play-list of individual items of content packaged in two or more essence containers each of the same type.

Identify it

Extensions	`.mxf`
MIME types	`application/mxf`
Signatures	`060e2b34020501010d0102010102` at byte 0 (MXF OP2a)
PRONOM	`fmt/785`

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FFmpegOpen sourcereads and writes · LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
GStreamerOpen sourcereads · GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0 or later
HandBrakeOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Q3898244Open sourcereads · BSD licenses / GNU General Public License / GNU Lesser General Public License
ShotwellOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later
VLC media playerOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later
Final Cut Pro Xreads and writes · proprietary license
Adobe After Effectsreads · proprietary license
Adobe Premiere Proreads · proprietary license
CineAssetreads
Media Composerreads · proprietary license
Movavi Video Editorreads · proprietary license

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) 1.2.1	FFmpeg	Partial	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.flac` Audio track only: the video is dropped.
Waveform Audio	FFmpeg	Partial	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.wav` Audio track only: the video is dropped.
Matroska 1-4	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.mkv` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.
MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.mp3` Lossy re-encoding.
MPEG-4 Part 14	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.mp4` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.
Ogg	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.ogg` Lossy re-encoding.
WebM	FFmpeg	Lossy	`ffmpeg -i in.mxf out.webm` Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.

Sources

PRONOM fmt/785

From PRONOM. Updated 2015-11-23.

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