DPX

File Format
Name	DPX
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics DPX
Extension(s)	.dpx
LoCFDD	fdd000178
PRONOM	fmt/193

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 "SDPX" (big-endian DPX), or "XPDS" (little-endian DPX).

See also

• Cineon

Specifications

• SMPTE 268M-1994: DPX 2.0 proposed standard

Sample files

• Digital_LAD_dpx.zip
• cineon-dpx.zip

Software

• ImageMagick
• Konvertor
• XnView

Links

• Wikipedia article
• Some DPX-related documents
• DPX File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats