SMPTE Standards and Other Documents

Introduction

SMPTE Overview Documents (OV), Public Committee Drafts (pCD), Registered Disclosure Documents (RD), Engineering Reports (EG), Advisory Notes (AN), and Administrative Guidelines (AG) can be accessed as follows or via the links at the top of this page.

Overview (OV) Documents

A multipart set of documents should be supplemented by an Overview Document (OV), which describes the relationships among the parts and may describe the relationships of the parts to other Engineering Documents. Overview documents are identified by the family number, followed by part number zero "-0". OV documents are not due process Engineering Documents.

Overview Documents are available free of charge.

Public Committee Drafts (pCD)

Public CDs are open documents that are distributed for review and comment by the professional community for a limited time. Distribution of public CDs does not constitute publication, as the material remains work under development. Therefore, public CDs shall not be referred to as a SMPTE Standard, Recommended Practice, or Engineering Guideline.

Public Committee Drafts are available on the Public Committee Drafts webpage.

Registered Disclosure Documents (RDD)

Registered Disclosure Documents (RDDs) are not Engineering Documents and do not represent findings, representations, or recommendations by the Society. Registered Disclosure Documents are documents within the scope of interest of the Society, submitted by any entity (the “Sponsor”) that wishes to make a disclosure available to the public and to use the Society’s publication and distribution mechanisms for this purpose. Documents that may be suitable as Registered Disclosure Documents include, but are not limited to, specifications of existing products, instructions for interfacing to products, instructions for controlling products and systems, and descriptions of design approaches intended to encourage design of similar or compatible systems. Registered Disclosure Documents shall not be used as Normative References in Engineering Documents.

Registered Disclosure documents are available free to members through the membership portal or for non-members via the SMPTE store by purchasing this product and listing the document you would like in the product details field.

Engineering Reports (ER)

An Engineering Report (ER) is an informative document developed by a Study Group, a Technology Committee, or a Task Force on a topic of interest to the industry. Publication shall be with the approval of the Standards Vice President.

Engineering Reports (ER) are available on the Engineering Reports webpage.

Advisory Notes (AN)

An Advisory Note is a brief informative document developed by Consensus of a Technology Committee detailing an issue before the Technology Committee.

Advisory Notes are available on the Advisory Notes (AN) webpage.

Administrative Guidelines (AG)

The implementation of the Standards Operations Manual is covered by a number of Administrative Guidelines that change more frequently to address Operational concerns. To do work in SMPTE, you need to create a Project for each document created. Finally, SMPTE's visual look is governed by a SMPTE Style Guide.