Ingex


Ingex is an open-source suite of software for the digital capture of audio and video data, without the need for traditional audio or video tape or cassettes. Serial digital interface (SDI) capture is supported, as well as real-time transcoding. Portions of the software suite also act as a network file server for media files, as well as archiving to LTO-3 data tape. Audio and video media files can also be stored on USB hard drives or Network Attached Storage. The software is heavily used by the BBC, and was developed by the BBC Research Laboratory.
Some of the early production projects which have used Ingex include a Foo Fighters music video, and the BBC television series Dragons' Den.

Features

The different software products in the suite support:
Media Harmony 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. 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.

Supported formats

Currently supported standard-definition codecs are:
Supported high-definition codecs are:
libMXF supports:
  • MXF
  • uncompressed video or audio, DV25/50, IMX, JPEG, DNxHD and DVCProHD files
  • writes MXF OP-Atom files which can be used directly in Avid Media Composer and related editors
MediaHarmony supports:
  • media_harmony - per-client.pmr and.mdb database files so there are no conflicts between Avid editors
  • mxf_harmony - on-the-fly unwrapping of MXF-wrapped DV essence so that a Final Cut Pro client can share the same DV media files as an Avid client
Ingex archive supports:
Metadata:

Supported operating systems