The following steps are suggestions for a convenient and easy workflow within MXF files.

The steps:

• provide your in-house policy for what is needed and what is wasteful and potentially risky
• unwrap the incoming MXF
• extract the essence and metadata
• generate a fresh MXF wrapper
• fill in the (modified) essences
• fill up only metadata your application really needs and put them on its one exact position in the MXF format