Snell & Wilcox's MXF Desktop
Snell & Wilcox will release a comprehensive set of software developer tools for free at NAB2004. MXF Express is designed to help broadcasters and equipment vendors ensure interoperability among file-sharing products and systems through the MXF file format.
The company will also freely release MXF Desktop, a software-based MXF file player that will bring MXF compatibility to any Windows PC desktop.
MXF (Material eXchange Format) is a major new building block for IT-based broadcast and post-production environments offering a unique combination of several essential key features:
- Platform independence including compression, network protocol and operating systems
- Extensive support for metadata and improved workflows
- Packetized and streaming file-based capability
- An open industry format with broad-based support from industry vendors
- Interoperability tested between industry vendors
- Extensible for future source formats and metadata schemes
Snell & Wilcox engineers played a critical role in the definition and standardization of MXF. As part of their standardization work, the company's research engineers developed over several years a package of software tools that enables users to create products that conform to the MXF specification. Those tools are included in the free releases of MXF Express and MXF Desktop.
For more information visit booth C6421 or go to www.snellwilcox.com.
