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Ingex is an open-source (GPL) suite of software for the digital capture of audio and video data, without the need for traditional audio or video tape or cassettes.[1][2] Serial digital interface (SDI) capture is supported, as well as real-time transcoding (with MXF).[1] Portions of the software suite also act as a network file server for media files, as well as archiving to LTO-3 data tape.[1] Audio and video media files can also be stored on USB hard drives or Network Attached Storage.[3] The software is heavily used by the BBC, and was developed by the BBC Research Laboratory.[3]
Some of the early production projects which have used Ingex include a Foo Fighters music video, and the BBC television series Dragons' Den.[3]
The different software products in the suite support:[1]
Media Harmony[4] is a module for Samba 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 wrapping for multiple cameras, also known as multi-camera tapeless recording.[5] 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.
Currently supported standard-definition (SD) codecs are:[1]
Supported high-definition (HD) codecs are:[1]
libMXF supports:[6]
MediaHarmony supports:[4]
Ingex archive supports:[7]
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