The new generation of file-based capture cameras from Ikegami, Panasonic, Sony and Grass Valley allows immediate access to the recorded content through MXF metadata.

MXF, for those still confused, is a file container, or "wrapper," that supports a number of different signal elements. The content within the file is described by metadata, which lets the user know any number of things-including format, codec, timecode and other data.

At IBC MOG Solutions, a Portugal-based company that specializes in all things MXF, introduced theScribe Lite, an MXF logging tool that grabs metadata directly from the camera, allowing it to be processed and annotated on a laptop PC during field production.

MOG said theScribe Lite transfers both audiovisual material and the associated metadata inserted by the camera and companion applications (like Sony‘s PDZ-1 or Panasonic‘s P2 viewer), combining them into a single MXF file that‘s SMPTE DMS-1 compliant. This standard DMS-1 metadata can be refined with theScribe Lite, making the content ready for redistribution, repurposing and archiving.

MOG, which showed the new application at IBC, said fully annotated MXF files offer users a new way to reuse material, allowing optimization of resources when the content is fed to an asset-management system. This reduces the costs for annotation and classification of the video material after production.

Additionally, theScribe Lite enables GXF file playback for integrated operation with Thomson Grass Valley video servers.

MOG Solutions is offering theScribe Lite at $62.00. For more, visit www.mog-solutions.com.