What do you know about MXF video format ?

WUHAN, China - Oct. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- In the recent days, I accidently found out a interesting movie, but which confused me was that the  video was queerly a MXF format. Then I played it on Windows Media player which actually didn’t support it. I felt desperate for that the funny video cannot be enjoyed.

To speak frankly, I had never before heard something about a MXF video format which is really a strange  thing for me. I don’t know what players can play it, what type of video converters can convert MXF to other formats to be played it on my current owned mediaplayers. And I also have no idea that what kind of code technology was wrapped with it. That are the main three points of which I wanna take knowledge.

So, I am going to the professional video converter provider named ImElfin (www.imelfin.com) which is fairly a good place that provided useful and practical method of resolving video conversion problems for us.

From the ImElfin editors’ guide article, Original source materials located here : http://www.imelfin.com/what-is-a-mxf-file-4-things-about-mxf-format.html

I gained the three answers corresponded with my three queries which mentioned in the above text. OK, I will explain them one by one.

No 1. MXF is short for Material eXchange Format, which is a container media format similar to AVI, MOV and MP4. MXF and it supports a number of codecs. MXF is capable to support timecode and metadata fully, which is actually designed as an industry standard for future professional video/audio applications without regards to user platforms. Carrying a subset of AAC (Advanced Authoring Format) data model. Sony XDCAM, Panasonic DVCPRO P2, Canon EOS C300 and Ikegami camcorders are using MXF format.

No 2. ImElfin editors recommended us the following video converters to convert MXF videos to MOV format to be played on Mac. Please take attention to them which consisted of FFmpeg, Gstreamer, Ingex, XDCAM Transfer.

No 3. Most important, if you are not a Mac user, then the upper free tools are not effective for you. You need to convert MXF videos to other format like MP 4, AVI, WMV, WKV, etc. which without doubt can be played on most mainstream players. Then the ImElfin Mac Video Converter is your first choice.

In addition, the exclusive MXF video player was called MPC player.