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Ingex is an open-source (
GPL
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general u ...
) suite of software for the digital capture of audio and video data, without the need for traditional audio or
video tape
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. Information stored can be in the form of either an analog or digital signal. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) and, more commonly, videocassette ...
or
cassettes.
capture is supported, as well as real-time
transcoding
Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859). This is usually done in cases where a target devic ...
(with
MXF MXF or mxf may refer to:
* Material Exchange Format, a container format for professional digital video and audio media
* MXF, the IATA and FAA LID code for Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, United States
* mxf, the ISO 639-3 code for Malgbe language ...
).
Portions of the software suite also act as a network file server for media files, as well as archiving to
LTO-3 data tape.
Audio and video media files can also be stored on
USB hard drives or
Network Attached Storage
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. The term "NAS" can refer to both the techn ...
.
The software is heavily used by the
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, and was developed by the
BBC Research
BBC Research & Development is the technical research department of the BBC.
Function
It has responsibility for researching and developing advanced and emerging media technologies for the benefit of the corporation, and wider UK and European m ...
Laboratory.
Some of the early production projects which have used Ingex include a
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Foo Fighters was initially formed as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Following the success of the eponymous debut album, Grohl (lead vocals, guitar) re ...
music video, and the BBC television series
Dragons' Den
''Dragons' Den'' is a reality television program format in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing investment finance from them. The program originated in 2001 in Japan, where it is k ...
.
Features
The different software products in the suite support:
* Multi-camera video capture in a studio environment
* Video tape archive preservation
* Acting as a server to
Avid editing clients
''Media Harmony''
is a module for
Samba
Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Havin ...
Virtual file system (VFS). This allows editing clients, such as
Avid, to use low-cost commodity storage for video and media files.
''Ingex Studio'' provides studio-style recoding, capture, transcode, and
MXF MXF or mxf may refer to:
* Material Exchange Format, a container format for professional digital video and audio media
* MXF, the IATA and FAA LID code for Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, United States
* mxf, the ISO 639-3 code for Malgbe language ...
wrapping for multiple cameras, also known as multi-camera tapeless recording.
The software runs on commodity PC hardware and
SDI IO cards. The media can then be edited by MXF-based editors, for example,
Avid Media Composer
Avid Media Composer is a film and video editing software application or non-linear editing system (NLE) developed by Avid Technology. Initially released in 1989 on Macintosh II as an offline editing system, the application has since evolved to al ...
.
Supported formats
Currently supported
standard-definition
Standard-definition television (SDTV, SD, often shortened to standard definition) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition. "Standard" refers to it being the prevailing sp ...
(SD)
codecs
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder.
In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or da ...
are:
* Avid-compatible
JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
codec resolutions known as 2:1, 3:1, 10:1, 20:1, 15:1s, 10:1m, 4:1m
*
DVCPRO50
DV refers to a family of codecs and videotape, tape formats used for storing digital video, launched in 1995 by a consortium of camcorder, video camera manufacturers led by Sony and Panasonic. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DV was strongly ...
(50Mbit/s) and
DV (25Mbit/s)
* IMX 50/40/30 (50/40/30Mbit/s)
* Uncompressed standard-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample and 10 bits-per-sample
Supported
high-definition (HD) codecs are:
* DNxHD (VC-3) at 120Mbit/s and 185Mbit/s
*
DVCPRO HD
DV refers to a family of codecs and videotape, tape formats used for storing digital video, launched in 1995 by a consortium of camcorder, video camera manufacturers led by Sony and Panasonic. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DV was strongly ...
* Uncompressed high-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample
libMXF supports:
* MXF
* uncompressed video or audio, DV25/50, IMX, JPEG, DNxHD and DVCProHD files
* writes MXF OP-Atom files which can be used directly in Avid Media Composer and related editors
MediaHarmony supports:
* media_harmony - per-client .pmr and .mdb database files so there are no conflicts between Avid editors
* mxf_harmony - on-the-fly unwrapping of MXF-wrapped DV essence so that a Final Cut Pro client can share the same DV media files as an Avid client
Ingex archive supports:
*
MXF MXF or mxf may refer to:
* Material Exchange Format, a container format for professional digital video and audio media
* MXF, the IATA and FAA LID code for Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, United States
* mxf, the ISO 639-3 code for Malgbe language ...
OP-1A file container, containing audio, video, and timecode data (also known as OP-1A MXF)
*
LTO-3 data tape
* Video
SMPTE
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (, rarely ), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the m ...
384M uncompressed 4:2:2 video at 8 bits per sample in UYVY format
* Audio
SMPTE
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (, rarely ), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the m ...
382M uncompressed
PCM audio at 48 kHz and 20 bits per sample
*
LTO barcode information
*
POSIX.1-2001 archive format (also known as
pax
Pax or PAX may refer to:
Peace
* Peace (Latin: ''pax'')
** Pax (goddess), the Roman goddess of peace
** Pax, a truce term
* Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
* Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly kiss ...
Interchange format), a superset of the
tar
Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. "a dark brown or black bit ...
format which overcomes the 8 GiB limitation of tar format, to ensure future access to programmes
Metadata:
*
Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is used for storing edition metadata.
Supported operating systems
* libMXF:
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
,
Mac OS X
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...
,
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
* Ingex Studio:
openSUSE
openSUSE () is a free and open-source software, free and open source RPM Package Manager, RPM-based Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project.
The initial release of the community project was a beta version of SUSE Linux 10.0.
Addi ...
Linux
See also
*
Comparison of video editing software
General information
This table gives basic general information about the different editors:
Active
Discontinued / inactive
Definition
* professional: used for full length Hollywood movies;
* professional (small): mainly used for paid ...
*
Video server
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A video server is a computer-based device that is dedicated to delivering video. Video servers are used in a number of applications, and often have additional functions and capabilities that address the needs of p ...
*
Video editing software
Video editing software, or a video editor is software used performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing system. It has replaced traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analog video ta ...
*
Photo slideshow software
Photo slideshow software is computer software used to display a range of digital photos, images and video clips in a predefined order. In most cases the output file is a standard video file or an executable file which contains all the sound and ...
*
Video scratching
Video scratching is a video editing technique used within the music industry. It is a variation of the audio editing technique scratching.
It is typically used in either music videos or live performances, with one or more individuals manipulatin ...
*
Edit Decision List
An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list of reel and timecode data representing where each video clip can be obtained in order to conform the final cu ...
References
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External links
Project Pages:
ingex.sourceforge.netSourceforge Ingex Project Page
Whitepapers:
Improving workflow in practice for low-cost programme-making using MXF & AAF file formatsTapeless and paperless: Automating the workflow in TV studio productionFile-based Production: Making It Work In Practice
Case studies:
From the
Open Source Observatory and Repository
The Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) is an online project launched by the European Commission under the IDABC programme, to support the distribution and re-use of software developed by or for public sector administrations across Euro ...
(OSOR), a project of the European Commission's
IDABC
All European countries show eGovernment initiatives, mainly related to the improvement of governance at the national level. Significant eGovernment activities also take place at the European Commission level as well. There is an extensive list ...
project:
Low-cost high tech: BBC tries out Open Source-based tapeless recording Low-cost high tech: BBC tries out Open Source-based tapeless recording, as ODT document Low-cost high tech: BBC tries out Open Source-based tapeless recording, as PDF document
Broadcast engineering
Digital television
Film and video technology
Free video software