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Codecs, containers & image formats · Specialist

DPX

Also called: Digital Picture Exchange

ELI5

A format that stores video as separate image frames for scanning, VFX and finishing.

Used in conversation

“VFX wants the final plates delivered as DPX sequences.”

Definition

A frame-based image sequence format widely used in film scanning, VFX and finishing.

Here “DPX” means: A frame-based image sequence format widely used in film scanning, VFX and finishing.

Pitch context

You may encounter “DPX” in editing, colour, post & delivery conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how recorded material becomes a finished, approved and technically deliverable work.

Connected terms

  • OpenEXRComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.