6 Audio in MXF
Bruce Devlin
Introduction
MXF categorizes essence into picture, sound, and data. Sound essence covers uncompressed and compressed audio whether it be mono, stereo, multi-channel, or multilingual. MXF is intended for the interchange of complete or finished material. Although MXF can represent cut edits, it is not intended to be a fall audio editing language, nor is it intended to be a full N channels from M sources crossbar-routing language.
As you will have seen in other chapters, MXF describes essence by using tracks and references. Figure 6.1 on the next page shows a typical OP la file.
The material package sound track describes the output timeline that references the file package sound tracks. The file package sound track, ...
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