{"id":424,"date":"2012-11-23T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-11-23T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T03:28:53","slug":"making-digital-cinema-packages-dcp-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/23\/making-digital-cinema-packages-dcp-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Digital Cinema Packages (DCP) yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just made my first DCP today following instructions scattered around the web. The process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sort out your frame rate and aspect ratio.<\/li>\n<li>Export video as an image sequence (16-bit TIFF &#8220;Trillions of colours&#8221; or JPEG2000 in the XYZ colour space)<\/li>\n<li>Export audio as discreet channels e.g. 2.0 stereo (L+R), 5.1 surround etc (24-bit 48kHz WAVE)<\/li>\n<li>Make a picture MXF and sound MXF using OpenDCP. (Also do the conversion to JPEG2000 image sequence if needed.)<\/li>\n<li>Make the DCP using OpenDCP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t tried delivering the DCP to a theatre for ingest yet, but it might be a little but fun getting the files on the right partition and file system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Software used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Final Cut Pro (to export AIFF files of discreet channels)<\/li>\n<li>QuickTime (to convert AIFF files into WAVE files)<\/li>\n<li>After Effects (to convert ProRes sequence to 16-bit TIFF image sequence)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/opendcp\/\">OpenDCP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easydcp.com\/\">easyDCP<\/a> to check package (using technology from Fraunhofer IIS, demo version 15-sec playback, requires website registration)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Useful websites and links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinetechgeek.com\/\">CineTechGeek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dannylaceyfilm.blogspot.com.au\/2012\/06\/getting-to-grips-with-making-digital.html\">Danny Lacey Film Blog- Getting to grips with making a Digital Cinema Package<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcinemanamingconvention.com\/\">Digital Cinema Naming Convention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knuterikevensen.com\/?p=437\">Knut Erik Evensen \u2013 KESE \u00bb The best common practice to deliver a Digital Cinema Package (DCP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2012\/07\/project-in-digital-theater-make-digital-cinema-package-for-cheap-with-opendcp\/\">Need to Project in a Digital Theater? Make a Digital Cinema Package for Cheap with OpenDCP &#8211; NoFilmSchool<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stuff to follow up: better ways of making the JPEG2000 image sequence &#8212; what&#8217;s the best encoder we can get?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just made my first DCP today following instructions scattered around the web. The process: Sort out your frame rate and aspect ratio. Export video as an image sequence (16-bit TIFF &#8220;Trillions of colours&#8221; or JPEG2000 in the XYZ colour space) Export audio as discreet channels e.g. 2.0 stereo (L+R), 5.1 surround etc (24-bit 48kHz WAVE) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[48,61,79],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-cinema","tag-dcp","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}