View DPX files in your browser
The frame format of film scanners, colorists and visual effects houses. Open a DPX right here, its log scan made viewable, without Nuke or DaVinci Resolve. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens at actual size, or shrunk to fit your screen.
- Actual size, or shrunk to fit
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Fullscreen
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About DPX
SMPTE made DPX a standard in 1994 from Kodak's Cineon, and it's how films have traveled between scanners, color grading and visual effects ever since: a reel is a folder of DPX files, one for each frame, from DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, Flame and film scanners.
A DPX is a 2 KB header with the frame's place in its film, its frame number, time code and the scanner that made it, then its pixels, mostly RGB at 10 bits packed three to a 32 bit word, in either byte order. A scan keeps printing density, a log scale like film's own, while an editor's export is linear video.
Filepeek reads it in your browser and turns printing density into light as Kodak's Cineon system does, from the black and white points in its header, so a scan looks as it would printed, and Export saves the frame as PNG or JPEG. Show details lists its film, frame, time code and scanner.
Digital Picture Exchange
.dpx
Format
- MIME type
- image/x-dpx
- Made by
- SMPTE, from Kodak's Cineon
- Released
- 1994
Inside the file
- Pixels
- RGB, luma or YCbCr, 8 to 16 bits
- Scale
- Log printing density or linear
- Header
- 2 KB of film and TV facts
- A reel
- A file per frame
Opens in every browser
Filepeek decodes DPX in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. No browser shows it by itself.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open DPX
- WindowsDaVinci Resolve, Nuke and Photoshop • ImageMagick reads it
- MacDaVinci Resolve, Nuke and Photoshop • ImageMagick reads it
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Why does my DPX look flat and washed out in other apps?
A film scan keeps printing density, a log scale, and an app that shows those numbers as they are shows a gray, flat picture. Filepeek turns them into light as Kodak's Cineon system does, from the black and white points the file gives.
How do I convert DPX to PNG or JPEG?
Open it, then choose Export and Save as PNG or Save as JPEG, 8 bits a channel as your screen shows it.
Can I see the frame number and time code?
Yes. Show details lists the file's project, film, frame number, frame rate, time code, slate and the scanner that made it, as far as its header gives them.
Can I play a folder of DPX frames?
Not as a movie. Dropped together, the frames open as a folder, each a click away from the next.