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SMPTE Engineering Documents consist of Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines, and Amendments. SMPTE Engineering Documents may be intended for further submission to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Standards Organization (ISO), or other standards bodies. 

The Society also publishes Registered Disclosure Documents, but these are not considered to be Engineering Documents and have separately defined procedures.

These documents can be found in the SMPTE Digital Library. In total, the SMPTE Digital Library contains more than 800 standards documents covering all aspects of motion image technology including the iconic color bar test patterns, time code, timed text, and digital cinema.

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