How to create DPX format?

[Cooller89]

Hi, i need to create DPX format. In DoM it is possible?

Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) is a common file format for digital intermediate and visual effects work and is a SMPTE standard (ST 268-1:2014). The file format is most commonly used to represent the density of each colour channel of a scanned negative film in an uncompressed "logarithmic" image where the gamma original camera negative is preserved as taken by a film scanner. For this reason, DPX is the worldwide-chosen format for still frames storage in most digital intermediate post-production facilities and film labs. Other common video formats are supported as well (see below), from video to purely digital ones, making DPX a file format suitable for almost any raster digital imaging applications. DPX provides, in fact, a great deal of flexibility in storing colour information, colour spaces and colour planes for exchange between production facilities. Multiple forms of packing and alignment are possible. The DPX specification allows for a wide variety of metadata to further clarify information stored (and storable) within each file.

[Carsten]

Why would you want to create DPX with DCP-o-matic ? DCP-o-matic is the endpoint for cinematic distribution, not an intermediate one.

Most video editing/grading applications allow to create DPX files.


- Carsten

[Cooller89]

For some reason I thought that DCP and DPX are made in the same program.

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