The BLM Tailor is a service engine which allows the seamless cutting and splicing of any audio and video material that is stored as a compressed media file such as MPEG-2 or H.264. Designed as the conforming engine component of Miura Production, the BLM Tailor allows lossless file cutting and stitching at incredible speed. Tailor provides sub-clipping and file concatenation without decompressing the source files meaning no loss of quality and no waiting around for renders to complete. The MXF Tailor is exposed as a web service and has a simple XML based job interface allowing it to be readily implemented into any file based production workflow within, or outside, the Miura environment.