Can you make a DCP for Film Festival projection?
Creating a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) for cinema and digital distribution of your feature film, short or trailer is now easier than ever. But it’s not as straight forward as you might hope. Yes you can do it yourself, but should you?
Is there a way to make your own DCP?
If someone doesn’t have the time or desire to make their own DCP I will gladly do that and or other DCP related tasks, like screen and report on Users DCP’s under the White Glove Service.
Which is the best DCP player on the market?
Overall, NeoDCP is an extremely impressive software DCP player. It offers a significant amount of control over the picture, sound, and other technical aspects typically hidden by most media players at a price that is extremely competitive, if not destructive to its more well-known competition.
How much does a neodcp DCP player cost?
It also comes in a slightly confusing 5 way split pricing structure, which you can peruse here. The basic plan starts at €99 and the Ultimate 4K edition is €1,799 with a diverse menu of options. Overall, NeoDCP is an extremely impressive software DCP player.
How to check your DCP on a cinema projector?
The only way to really check that you’ve encoded your DCP correctly is to check it on a cinema projector which means that you need to hire out the cinema to do this. Charles says it took him four times to get his DCP correct and after renting the cinema four times he could have spent less on paying a professional DCP company to make it for him.
How does DCP work between Dolby and DTS?
Then 70mm came along with 6-channel magnetic tracks, so Dolby, Sony and DTS came up with multi-channel formats for 35mm (which caused the death of 70mm). Since DTS would not fit on a 35mm print, they put an optical timing track on the 35mm print and put the audio on an optical disk.