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

Software

 * ImageMagick
 * XnView

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * Some DPX-related documents