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Engineering Guideline

An Engineering Guideline is an informative document, often tutorial in nature, which incorporates engineering Consensus on specifications, dimensions, and/or Version practices. It is intended to guide Users or to provide designs or procedures for Producers. It shall not contain Conformance Language, Normative Text, or Normative References.

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EG 1, Alignment Color Bar Test Signal for Television Picture Monitors

EG 10, Tape Transport Geometry Parameters 19-mm Type D-1 TV Digital Component Re

EG 12, Control of Basic Parameters in the Manufacture of SMPTE Photographic and

EG 13, Use of Audio Magnetic Test Films

EG 14, Acoustical Background Noise Levels in Dubbing Stages

EG 15, Level for Analog Recording of Dialog in Motion-Picture Production

EG 16, Measurement Methods for Film and Digital Motion-Picture Camera Acoustical

EG 17, B-Chain Electroacoustical Response for Preparing Magnetic Masters for Tra

EG 18, Design of Effective Cine Theaters

EG 2, Edge Identification of Motion-Picture Raw Stock Containers

EG 20, Tape Transport Geometry Parameters for 19-mm Type D-2 Composite Format fo

EG 2021-3, SMPTE Engineering Guideline BXF Use Cases

EG 2021-4, Broadcast Exchange Format (BXF) Schema Documentation

EG 2032-4, Engineering Guideline (Informative)

EG 2039, Inspection and Cleaning Processes for the 304M Hybrid Connector

EG 2046-3, Safe Areas for Television

EG 2050-2, Application

EG 2059-10, Introduction to the New Synchronization System (SMPTE ST 2059)

EG 2061, Stereoscopic Distribution Master - Glossary

EG 2069, Optical SDI Networks

EG 2074, SMPTE Metadata Naming Guidelines

EG 2076-2, Image Identification, Alignment, Transport and System Guidance for St

EG 2098-3, Immersive Audio Renderer Expectations and Testing Recommendations

EG 21, Nomenclature for Television Digital Recording of 19-mm Type D-1 Component

EG 2111-1, SD-SDI and HD-SDI Standards Roadmap

EG 2111-2, 3/6/12 & 24 Gbit/s SDI Standards Roadmap

EG 2111-3, 10G-SDI Standards Roadmap

EG 2112-2, Audience Measurement Ecosystem

EG 22, Description and Index of Documents for 19-mm Type D-2 Composite Televisio

EG 23, Transfer of Two-Channel Stereo Audio from Audio Magnetic Film or Tape to

EG 24, Video and Audio Alignment Tapes and Procedures for 1-in Type C Helical-Sc

EG 25, Telecine Scanning for Film Transfer to Television

EG 25, Telecine Scanning for Film Transfer to Television

EG 26, Audio Channel Assignments for Digital Television Tape Recorders with AES/

EG 27, Supplemental Information for ANSI/SMPTE 170M and Background on the Develo

EG 28, Annotated Glossary of Essential Terms for Electronic Production

EG 29, Remote Control of Television Equipment

EG 3, Projection for Technical Conferences

EG 30, Implementation of ESlan Standards

EG 31, Considerations for Cassette Bar Code Readers

EG 32, Emphasis of AES/EBU Audio in Television Systems and Preferred Audio Sampl

EG 33, Jitter Characteristics and Measurements

EG 34, Pathological Conditions in Serial Digital Video Systems

EG 35, Time and Control Code: Time Address Clock Precision for Television, Audio

EG 36, Transformations Between Television Component Color Signals

EG 37, Node Structure for the SMPTE Metadata Dictionary

EG 377-3, Material Exchange Format (MXF) ?Engineering Guideline (Informative)

EG 38, ?MPEG-2 Operating Range Applications

EG 39, Overview of Declarative Data Essence

EG 40, Conversion of Time Values between SMPTE ST 12-1 Time Code, MPEG-2 PCR Tim

EG 41, Material Exchange Format (MXF) - Engineering Guideline

EG 42, Material Exchange Format (MXF) - MXF Descriptive Metadata

EG 43, System Implementation of CEA-708-B and CEA-608-B Closed Captioning

EG 432-1, Color Processing for D-Cinema

EG 432-2, D-Cinema Low Frequency Effects (LFE) Channel Audio Characteristics

EG 44, Care ...Magnetic Tape for Television

EG 5, Projected Image Quality of 70-, 35- and 16-mm Motion-Picture Projection Sy

EG 7, Audio Sync Pulse for 8-mm Type S Cameras, Magnetic Audio Recorders and Rer

EG 8, Specifications ...Space Environment

EG 9, Audio Recording Reference Level for Post-Production of Motion-Picture Rela

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