DPX

DPX (or SMPTE DPX, Digital Picture Exchange, Digital Moving-Picture Exchange) is an image file format intended as an intermediate format for video editing. A video would be composed of many DPX files, each containing one frame.

Identification
Files begin with ASCII characters " " (big-endian DPX), or " " (little-endian DPX).

Specifications

 * SMPTE 268M-1994: DPX 2.0 proposed standard

Sample files

 * Digital_LAD_dpx.zip
 * cineon-dpx.zip
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/dpx/

Software

 * ImageMagick
 * Konvertor
 * XnView
 * abydos

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * Some DPX-related documents
 * , from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats