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Setup: TIFF is the archival multi-page master format used in scanning, print and document pipelines. Goal: an interchangeable DPX. If you have ended up with a TIFF and need a DPX, the mismatch is almost always about where the image is going next rather than the picture itself. Our server reads the TIFF with ImageMagick, decodes each pixel, and re-writes it as a DPX using defaults tuned for fidelity first and file size second. Technical note: TIFF is the archival multi-page master format used in scanning, print and document pipelines. Compare that with DPX is a raster image format with its own balance of compression, colour depth, and software support.
TIFF Image
Source formatTIFF is a flexible, high-quality image format widely used in publishing, printing, and professional photography. It supports multiple compression methods and color spaces including CMYK.
Digital Moving-Picture
Target formatDPX (Digital Picture Exchange) is a SMPTE standard file format for digital intermediate and visual effects work. It stores per-frame image data with rich metadata for color management and is widely used in film post-production pipelines.
Why convert TIFF to DPX
Both TIFF and DPX describe a grid of pixels — the difference lies in how that grid is compressed, whether transparency is supported, and which software opens it natively. Moving from TIFF to DPX is worth it when the DPX ecosystem is broader for your use case, or when DPX compresses photographs more efficiently than TIFF.
HOW TO CONVERT
TIFF → DPX
Drop the TIFF file
Drag and drop or click to upload your TIFF. The image is transferred securely over HTTPS and queued for conversion.
Re-encode with ImageMagick
ImageMagick decodes every pixel of the TIFF and writes a matching DPX with sensible default quality settings.
Download the DPX
The converted DPX is ready to download as a single file; both files delete automatically within two hours.
Common Use Cases
Web publishing and CMSes
DPX uploads cleanly to WordPress, Ghost, Webflow and most blogging platforms; many CMSes silently transcode or reject TIFF.
Email attachments
Email clients preview DPX inline while TIFF may arrive as an unrecognised attachment on older Outlook or mobile apps.
Social media uploads
Platforms like Instagram, X and Facebook accept DPX natively; TIFF is often rejected or silently converted with unpredictable results.
Design hand-off
Designers shipping assets to developers prefer DPX for faster pipeline imports and consistent display across build tools.
TIFF vs DPX — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
TIFF Strengths
- Lossless by default — no generation loss on successive edits and saves.
- Supports any bit depth (1 to 32 bits per channel), any color model, any number of channels.
- Extensible tag system means vendor-specific data survives alongside standard tags.
- Multi-page containers are perfect for scanned documents, faxes, and DICOM-like stacks.
- Industry-standard for archival, museums, scientific imaging, and high-end print prepress.
Limitations
- File sizes are huge compared to JPEG/WebP/AVIF — often 10-30× larger.
- Not a web format — no browser displays TIFF natively.
- Ambiguous spec areas mean some TIFFs only open correctly in the tool that created them.
DPX Strengths
- Industry-standard archival format for film.
- Logarithmic color encoding preserves film look.
- Lossless — no generation degradation.
- SMPTE standardized (SMPTE 268M).
- Every VFX and color-grading app reads and writes DPX.
Limitations
- No compression — file sizes are enormous.
- Not a display format — requires color-managed pipelines.
- Gradually superseded by OpenEXR in modern VFX.
TIFF vs DPX — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
TIFF
- MIME type
- image/tiff
- Extensions
- .tif, .tiff
- Standard
- TIFF 6.0 (1992); BigTIFF extension for 64-bit offsets
- Max file size
- 4 GB (TIFF); 2^64 bytes (BigTIFF)
- Compression options
- None, LZW, Deflate, JPEG, CCITT G3/G4, PackBits, JBIG
DPX
- MIME type
- image/x-dpx
- Standard
- SMPTE 268M
- Extension
- .dpx
- Bit depths
- 8, 10, 12, 16 bits per channel
- Color encoding
- Logarithmic (Cineon-style) by convention
| Specification | TIFF | DPX |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | image/tiff | image/x-dpx |
| Extensions | .tif, .tiff | — |
| Standard | TIFF 6.0 (1992); BigTIFF extension for 64-bit offsets | SMPTE 268M |
| Max file size | 4 GB (TIFF); 2^64 bytes (BigTIFF) | — |
| Compression options | None, LZW, Deflate, JPEG, CCITT G3/G4, PackBits, JBIG | — |
| Extension | — | .dpx |
| Bit depths | — | 8, 10, 12, 16 bits per channel |
| Color encoding | — | Logarithmic (Cineon-style) by convention |
TIFF vs DPX — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
TIFF
- Scanned A4 page (300 dpi, B&W) 100-300 KB
- Scanned A4 page (600 dpi, color) 15-40 MB
- Print-quality magazine photo 30-150 MB
- Satellite GeoTIFF tile 50 MB - 5 GB
DPX
- 2K DPX frame (2048×1556, 10-bit) ~12 MB
- 4K DPX frame (4096×3112, 10-bit) ~50 MB
- 90-min feature at 4K DPX sequence ~6 TB
Quality & Compatibility
If DPX is a lossless format (PNG, TIFF, BMP) the output keeps every pixel of the decoded TIFF exactly. If DPX is a lossy codec (JPEG, WebP, HEIC), the encoder re-compresses the image at the quality level you select — default 85 is transparent for photographs, quality 92+ for illustrations with hard edges.
Tips for Best Results
- Keep the original TIFF alongside the DPX output — re-encoding already-lossy images accumulates detail loss on each round.
- If the DPX will be uploaded to a CMS, check whether the platform has a max dimension and downscale once on export rather than letting the CMS resize automatically.
- For thumbnails and avatars, export the DPX at exactly the display size; browsers will otherwise resample and the image may look soft.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the codecs involved. If both TIFF and DPX are lossy, the pixels are re-encoded and a small amount of detail is discarded — invisible at default quality settings on photographs. If DPX is lossless (PNG, TIFF, BMP) the output keeps every pixel of the decoded TIFF exactly, but cannot recover detail that TIFF had already compressed away.
Often yes, especially when DPX is lossless. TIFF tuned for efficient web delivery will usually produce smaller files than DPX's default settings. If file size matters, drop the quality in Advanced or pick a more compressed target format instead.
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