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Summary

Name Material Exchange Format
Version Operational Pattern 2a
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Identifiers MIME:  application/mxf
PUID:  fmt/785
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Disclosure  
Description 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.
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Related file formats None.
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Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 23 Nov 2015
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Last updated 23 Nov 2015
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