Ingex

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Software for digital capture of audio and video data

title: "Ingex" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["broadcast-engineering", "digital-television", "film-and-video-technology", "free-video-software"] description: "Software for digital capture of audio and video data" topic_path: "engineering" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingex" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Software for digital capture of audio and video data ::

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.{{cite web | url = https://ingex.sourceforge.net/ | title = Ingex | accessdate=2009-08-24 | url = http://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Fallstudie-Die-BBC-und-ihr-Projekt-Ingex | first = | last = | author = | authorlink = | title = Fallstudie: Die BBC und ihr Projekt Ingex | publisher = Linux Magazine | location = Germany | language = German | date =11 April 2008 | accessdate = 2009-08-24 | author = Rodney Gedda | title = BBC moves Linux into TV production | url = http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=7238 | publisher = Computerworld | location = UK | date = 2008-01-29 | accessdate = 2009-08-25

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:

Multi-camera video capture in a studio environment
Video tape archive preservation
Acting as a server to Avid editing clients

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 (SD) codecs are:

Avid-compatible JPEG codec resolutions known as 2:1, 3:1, 10:1, 20:1, 15:1s, 10:1m, 4:1m
DVCPRO50 (50Mbit/s) and DV (25Mbit/s)
IMX 50/40/30 (50/40/30 Mbit/s)
Uncompressed standard-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample and 10 bits-per-sample

Supported high-definition (HD) codecs are:

DNxHD (VC-3) at 120 Mbit/s and 185 Mbit/s
DVCPRO HD
Uncompressed high-definition video at 8 bits-per-sample

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:

MXF OP-1A file container, containing audio, video, and timecode data (also known as OP-1A MXF)
LTO-3 data tape
Video SMPTE 384M uncompressed 4:2:2 video at 8 bits per sample in UYVY format
Audio SMPTE 382M uncompressed PCM audio at 48 kHz and 20 bits per sample
LTO barcode information
POSIX.1-2001 archive format (also known as pax Interchange format), a superset of the tar format which overcomes the 8 GiB limitation of tar format, to ensure future access to programmes

Metadata:

Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) is used for storing edition metadata.{{cite web | url = http://www.broadcastandmedia.com/article/the-mxf-files/485887.aspx | author = Stuart Finlayson | title = The MXF files | publisher = Broadcast and Media | location = Australia | accessdate = 2009-08-24 | date = 2008-01-18

Supported operating systems

libMXF: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Ingex Studio: openSUSE Linux

References

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