SMPTE 394M

Television – Material Exchange Format (MXF) – System Scheme 1 for the MXF Generic Container

Published by	Publication Date	Number of Pages
SMPTE	07/07/2006		7

Category: SMPTE

SMPTE 394M – Television – Material Exchange Format (MXF) – System Scheme 1 for the MXF Generic Container

This standard specifies the data format for the System Item of the MXF Generic Container (GC) that is calledSystem Scheme 1. This data format is a superset of the System Item defined in SMPTE 385M (MappingSDTI-CP Essence and Metadata into the MXF Generic Container) and provides a more generic and flexibledata structure that can provide system elements for flexible GC wrappings including clip-based wrapping. Thisdocument defines the rules that System Elements in the System Item shall follow in order to be classified as aSystem Scheme 1 System Element.

The MXF Generic Container is the native Essence Container of the Material Exchange Format (MXF) FileBody. The MXF Generic Container is defined for the interchange of streamable audio-visual material.

This document defines the data structure at the signal interfaces of networks or storage media. Thisdocument does not define internal storage formats for MXF compliant devices.