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Technology Committees

Committee Scopes

The general scope of all Technology Committees is to develop SMPTE Engineering Documents, review existing documents to ensure that they are current with established engineering practices and are compatible with international engineering documents, recommend and develop test specifications, methods, and materials, and to prepare tutorial material on engineering subjects for publication in the SMPTE Journal or for other means of dissemination benefiting the Society and the industry.

Content Creation Committees

Essence 10E
The application of the General Scope as it applies to electronic capture, generation, editing, mastering, archiving, and reproduction of image, audio, subtitles, captions, and any other master elements required for distribution across multiple applications.

Applications Committees

Cinema 27C
The application of the General Scope as it applies to theatrical distribution, reproduction and operations, both analog and digital.

Infrastructure and Media Management Committees

Metadata/Registries 30MR
The application of the General Scope as it applies to the definition and implementation of the SMPTE Registration Authority, used to identify digital assets and associated metadata such as the definition of shared metadata semantics across multiple committees.

File Formats and Systems 31FS
The application of the General Scope as it applies to definition of common wrapper and file structures for storage, transmission, and use in the carriage of all forms of digital content components.

Network/Facilities Infrastructure 32NF
The application of the General Scope as it applies to definition and control of elements supporting the infrastructures of content production and distribution facilities, including file management, transfer protocols, switching mechanisms, and physical networks that are both internal and external to the facility excluding unique final distribution methods. 

Media Systems, Control and Services 34CS
The application of the General Scope as it applies to the implementation of media services, methods of managing and controlling hardware devices and software systems, and the management of media workflow processes, including associated signaling and control mechanisms.

Media Packaging and Interchange 35PM
The application of the General Scope as it applies to the packaging of media elements, to facilitate the interchange and interoperability of formats within specific integrated application ecosystems in the professional fields of media creation, production, post-production archiving and related topics.