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Making a DCP in Premiere- good idea or send it out?
I’m trying to create a budget for finishing an independent film project to ready it for festival submission and screening. I have heard that most festivals require you to submit a Digital Cinema Package (DCP). Apparently you can do it on Adobe Premiere now, but I wondered if there were any problems with this. If I have Premiere, then is there any point in sending it out to a professional DCP creation company? What would be the point of purchasing the software made specifically for this like easyDCP creator, which runs a few thousand dollars?
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Send it out.
Premiere’s DCP support (thanks to some limited licensing with Wraptor) is 2k, 24fps only with stereo or 5.1 sound. Depending on the type of festival, stereo isn’t an accepted mix format and minimum is LCR (3.0) which Wraptor cannot export.
An LCR mix can be extracted from a stereo mix, it just has to do with how it’s channel separated. Shouldn’t add much frustration to audio mixing/finishing if you’re not planning on a surround mix.
Also be aware that some festivals will need you to master onto server ready hard drives. If you don’t know Linux then a finishing house will have to format the drive for you and place the files correctly.
In other words, it’s a specialized delivery method so don’t chance it when the price to master it to DCP is a marginal part of most budgets.
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Use OpenDCP, it has more features and it’s easy to use.
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