Editing Material Exchange Format (section)

{{Short description|Video and audio media container format}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox file format
| name                   = Material Exchange Format
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| extension              = .mxf
| mime                   = application/mxf
| type code              = "mxf"
| uniform type           =
| magic                  =
| owner                  =
| released               = {{Start date and age|2004|09|22|df=yes}}
| latest release version = SMPTE ST 377-1:2019
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2020|01|28|df=yes}}
| type                   = [[Container format (digital)|Container format]]
| container for          = Audiovisual material, rich metadata
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| extended from          =
| extended to            =
| standard               =
| open                   = Yes
| free                   = Yes<ref>{{cite tech report |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C.  |series=Sustainability of Digital Formats |type=Full draft |title=Material Exchange Format (MXF) |date=17 January 2012 |url=https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000013.shtml |access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref>
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'''Material Exchange Format''' ('''MXF''') is a [[Container format (digital)|container format]] for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of [[SMPTE]] standards. A typical example of its use is for delivering advertisements to TV stations and tapeless archiving of broadcast TV programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediacom.dk/media/3339612/TV%202%20-%20Technical%20specifications.pdf |title=Technical Specifications – Commercial File Delivery |access-date=2016-12-14 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220200906/http://www.mediacom.dk/media/3339612/TV%202%20-%20Technical%20specifications.pdf |archive-date=20 December 2016 }}</ref> It is also used as part of the [[Digital Cinema Package]] for delivering movies to commercial theaters.