[Aaron Owen]

Or if you’re on a mac, you can use DCP Transfer which does basically automates the formatting and validation operations.

Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftjF4jFZVc

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[Aaron Owen]

So you’ve got a DCP that you are ready to send out… That’s only half the battle. If you want the DCP to be read on any digital cinema playback system in the world, there’s still some work to do.

You’ve got to put it onto a Linux formatted drive according to theISDCF spec (master boot record, ext2 or ext3 filesystem, inode size at 128) and ensure that the package was transferred onto the drive without getting any read or write errors that would cause the server’s validation process to fail.

That’s where DCP Transfer comes in. Check out the guided tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NftjF4jFZVc

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