How to export for Digital Cinema Package DCP

[Angelo Lorenzo]

No. DCP creation is a very involved process and if you don’t have the ability to test DCP you’ve created before distribution then I strongly suggest you have a mastering house perform the conversion.

https://www.dcpinfo.com/

https://dannylaceyfilm.blogspot.com/2012/06/getting-to-grips-with-making-digital.html is a good starting point.

Please be aware that you have to split any stereo content to at least LRC(left front, right front, center) mix. If you already have a 5.1 or 7.1 mix, you should be fine. DCP does not support mono or stereo sources.

Premiere and After Effects can both export TIFF. If I recall correctly, OpenDCP should do the color conversion to XYZ color space.

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[Stephen Smith]

It is not possible in Premiere. Sounds like a great thing to make a request for, I have and you should to.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

I currently have another company do DCP files for me. They have a 2K projector so they can check there work when they are done. They do a great job, here is there site: https://universalpost.tv/ Best of luck.

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[Tadeusz Kleczek]

[Stephen Smith] “It is not possible in Premiere. Sounds like a great thing to make a request for, I have and you should to.”

It,s not true. It is POSSIBLE in Premiere Pro but You need plugin Rovio Total Code:
The plug-in suite works seamlessly with Adobe Premiere Pro to support:
AVC-Intra, DVCPRO, VC-3, Ikegami GFCAM, JPEG2000 and MXF OP-1a
MPEG, DVCPRO and AVC-Intra smart rendering for faster exporting of those formats
H.264/AVC GPU-accelerated encoding
Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound for DVD and Blu-ray® Disc
DCI-compliant JPEG2000 Digital Cinema Packages

It, easy and working! But…..plugin cost is 999$

Teddy

[Tero Ahlfors]

You can then make a DCP with the free OpenDCP https://opendcp.org/

[Drew Lahat]

After saying out loud that there is no real, reliable easy to use DCP creation solution, I had my mouth shut yesterday on CML. Check this out:

https://www.magnamana.com/products/finaldcp/

$650, and there’s a fully-functional free version with a watermark (one that you might be able to project with, not the super-obstructive kind we’re used to with plug-ins).

[Axel Mertes]

Yep,

our FinalDCP is designed to be very streamlined for the average user.
At best you export a Quicktime or AVI file (most codecs like CineForm, DNxHD, ProRes, BMD, AJA etc. are supported) and import into FinalDCP.

Regarding speed:

We have a new professional version of the RenderNode coming, being 4 times faster. That means a single machine can do realtime. On our RenderFarm we tests about 40fps in 4K, 130+ fps in 2K and we are not yet done.

Cheers,
Axel

[Jith Paul]

Here’s a quick guide I put together with lessons learned creating my first DCP with the Adobe suite and Open DCP. https://dcp.treepotmedia.com

[Carl Hetherington]

Although not supporting direct export from CS5, DVD-o-matic might be useful:

https://carlh.net/software/dvdomatic

It is badly named (at the moment!) but it will take a video file (in more-or-less any format) and turn it into a DCP. It is free and open-source. Feel free to email me with any queries (cth@carlh.net)

Best

Carl

[Simon Faris]

Hi All,
The resurrection of a thread here. I have a request from an associate to see if I can convert an encrypted DCP file into a NON encrypted DCP file.

I am using a Windows 7pro 64bit 16gb of ram. Nvidia q4000 card I do not have a projector to test it on. I was hoping to be able to re-render it, if possible in Adobe’s Cs6?
This short file (996mb) was sent to me via a version of Dropbox, yet the info in the links state I need or should place the files on a drive…Is that an absolute, or can I just export the file and resend via drop box without placing it on a drive? With out any ‘hitches’ on the other end?

There are a couple of links above that appear to be an answer for creating DCP from files. I am merely trying to recode a current DCP file from encrypted to Non encrypted. Any ideas on this, or new swifter ways to achieve this? This thread was made months ago…
Thank you
SF

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[Dorian Neyra]

the newest update of Premiere Creative Cloud allows you to export directly as 2k DCP.