February 11th 2020
MXF Video File Structure
Material eXchange Format (MXF), which is a “container” or “wrapper” format, it is for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. MXF has header, body and footer sections.
We can use media tool to get the information of the MXF format:
| Format | MPEG Video |
| Commercial name | XDCAM HD422 |
| Format version | Version 2 |
| Format settings | Custom Matrix / BVOP |
| Format settings, BVOP | Yes |
| Format settings, Matrix | Custom |
| Format settings, GOP | M=3, N=12 |
| Format settings, picture structure | Frame |
| Format settings, wrapping mode | Frame |
| Codec ID | 0D01030102046001 |
| Duration | 2 min 42 s |
| Bit rate mode | Constant |
| Bit rate | 50.0 Mb/s |
| Width | 1 920 pixels |
| Height | 1 080 pixels |
| Frame rate | 25.000 FPS |
| Standard | Component |
| Color space | YUV |
| Bit depth | 8 bits |
| Scan type | Interlaced |
| Scan order | Top Field First |
| Compression mode | Lossy |
| Bits/(Pixel*Frame) | 0.965 |
| Stream size | 968 MiB (83%) |
| Color range | Limited |
| Color primaries | BT.709 |
| Transfer characteristics | BT.709 |
| Matrix coefficients | BT.709 |
We can see that the file has MPEG Video stream (XDCAM HD422), the bit rate is 50Mb/s, and the Frame rate is 25 FPS with the resolution is 1080P.
Corrupted MXF video or a RSV file
If something wrong happens when you are recording the MXF file, for example, device cash, accidentally interrupted or power failure, you will find an RSV file instead of a MXF file on the Memory card.
You may get a broken MXF or RSV file in most cases:
Repair MXF or RSV video file Recovery
In fact, the damaged MXF or RSV file doesn’t have a correct (full) structure, it has bad footer in some cases or it only has the body section (raw data).
What if to copy the header and footer from a working video? Is it working?
The answer is NO. Because every file is different, different data unite, different stream size, different duration, and the header and footer are different.
To get a corrupted MXF file repaired, we need to analyze the body (raw data), create the correct header and footer to rebuild the structure for the MXF file. All the process are Manual. We have years of experience in the project of MXF recovery, and find a solution to recover the corrupted MXF and deleted MXF video file. We can manually rebuild the header and footer for the body section. If you have a damaged/broken/corrupted or unfinalized/unplayable MXF file, all you have to do is to upload it to any cloud storage space, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Mega, FileMail or others you know, then send us the link to download.
Recover MXF Video file from Memory Card (SD/CF/P2/SXS/XQD)
If you have a broken MXF file recovered from memory card after deleted or formatted, or the card was damaged, that’s because the data recovery software you used doesn’t work for the MXF file due to its complicated file structure. To get your MXF file back, we need to manually recover it from the memory card in more professional way. We don’t actually need your card, we only need the image file of it. No worry, it is simple to create it. We will guide you step by step.
Note: Please stop using the Memory card to avoid the raw data overwritten.
Supported MXF camcorder Model
We can support all the popular MXF camcorders, such as SONY, Canon or Panasonic professional video camera, including:
What is the cost?
The price depends on the file size and the problem, please let us know something about your file, we will let you know how much it will be, no worry, it will be the best offer. We accept payment by PayPal. Also, no worry, we will provide you with the preview video in low resolution and screenshots in the original quality before you pay to us.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.