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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers or SMPTE (pronounced "simptee" or sometimes "sumptee") is a US professional association of engineers. They describe standards for media, publish a journal, find jobs for members and etc.

Significant standards for which they hold the copyright include:

All film and television transmission formats and media, including digital.
The SMPTE time code
The SMPTE color bar test pattern
The Material eXchange Format, or MXF

External link

http://www.smpte.org/

Video and movie technology

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SMPTE time codeSMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode. Timecodes are added to film, video or audio material, and have also been adapted to synchronize music. They provide a time reference for editing,	SMPTE color barsSMPTE color bars is a type of television test pattern, and is most commonly used in countries where the NTSC video standard is dominant, such as in North America. The SMPTE refers to this test card (although it is never photographed from a physical card,	SMPTE D10SMPTE specification for a professional video format, it is composed of MPEG Video 4:2:2 I-frame only and 8-channel AES3 audio streams. These AES3 audio usually contain 24bit PCM audio samples. It is possible to find video bitrates of 50, 40 and 30 MBits/s
SMPTE D11D11 is also known as HDCAM. It is a standard for compression of high-definition video in the bit rate range of 112-140 Mbit/s, with picture rates of 24-30 frame/s progressive scan and 50 or 60 frame/s interlaced. Luminance source sampling is 1920 x 1080 p

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