SMPTE is a professional membership association of technical geniuses who make it possible for everyone to experience the advancement of entertainment technology.
Our Members are Creating the Future of the Industry Today
SMPTE’s mission is to be a leader in the advancement of the art, science, and craft of the image, sound, and metadata ecosystems around the world.
27 student chapters, globally.
9 Emmy® awards for our Standards work.
SMPTE Standards are Created by Members
Volunteer committees from all industry sectors participate in SMPTE Standards development.
For more than a century, SMPTE has developed more than 800 standards, recommended practices, and engineering guidelines that are currently in force, and continues to innovate, generating an average of 50 new standards annually cinema, television, internet video, storage, workflows, and much more.
23,345 journal articles.
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