Deal expands EVX MXF support

MXF technologies supplier OpenCube has entered a license agreement with EVS Broadcast Equipment.

Under the agreement, EVS will expand its support of the MXF file format by integrating OpenCube’s MXF Toolkit with its XT[2] and XS servers.

The OpenCube MXF Toolkit offers all the features required for mastering MXF and for preserving metadata with a variety of essence formats, including MPEG-2, AVC-I, DNxHD, DVCPRO and JPEG2000.

After concluding the tests, EVS decided to integrate the OpenCube MXF Toolkit so it could generate MXF files in its XT[2] and XS series servers gateway system XTAccess in DVCPRO HD and DNxHD and be able to share the media files with editing tools.