The MXF Book was originally printed when the 2004 version of the MXF specification was published by SMPTE. If you would like the book brought up to date with data from the latest version of the specificaiton then please post a message to this website and we’ll see if we can get the authors to do an update.
The book is still available from Amazon and fromFocal Press.
Authors
Nick Wells
Nick studied physics at Cambridge University and then obtained a D.Phil from Sussex University for studies of radio wave propagation in conducting gases. In 1977 he started working at BBC Research and Development and has worked in many areas related to broadcasting, in particular image compression and the use of compression in production.
Nick played an active part in the standardization of MPEG2 and he has led large European collaborative projects related to the use of MPEG2 in the professional production environment. More recently, he has helped lead work strands related to radio cameras and new modulation schemes for radio. He is chairman of Professional MPEG Forum, which played a major role in the creation and promotion of MXF.
Bruce Devlin
Bruce graduated from Queens’ College Cambridge in 1986 and has been working in the broadcast industry ever since. He joined the BBC Research Department working on Radio Camera systems before moving to France where he worked on sub-band and MPEG coding for Thomson. He joined Snell & Wilcox in 1993 where he started the company’s work on compression coding. Bruce is now the Chief Technology Officer at AmberFin. This independent software company makes the iCR – the world best ingest and software transcoding engine. It is based on MXF technology and converts your media assets into media revenue.
Bruce holds several patents in the field of compression, has written international standards and contributed to books on MPEG and File Formats. He is co-author of the MXF File Format Specification and an active contributor to the work of SMPTE and the AMWA (Advanced Media Workflow Association).
Jim Wilkinson
Jim Wilkinson is a consultant
Matt Beard
After spending eight years as a software engineer, Matt studied Electronic Engineering at the University of Portsmouth. During this course he was awarded the IEE Prize for Academic Achievement for his work on a digital video decoder.
In 1996, he joined Snell & Wilcox, where he worked on a number of video processing products. In 2000, he joined BBC Research & Development, where he spent the majority of his time working on the standardization of MXF.
In 2002, he left the BBC and set up freeMXF.org, concentrating on the development of the MXFLib Open Source library.
Phil Tudor
Phil works for the BBC.