Terrence Meiczinger
Forum Replies Created
-
Juan,
I’d be interested in hearing about your compatibility issues you have experienced with OpenDCP. It’s been tested successfully against all the major vendors. If it was sometime ago, you were probably caught up in the MXF Interop and SMPTE switchover. SMPTE is the default for OpenDCP, but there were a lot of broken SMPTE implementations in field which may have caused problems. If you still have any information, I would appreciate it, so if there are problems with OpenDCP I can work to fix them. Thanks.
-Terrence
-
OpenDCP is geared toward digital cinema and wouldn’t really be suitable as it is. It wouldn’t be difficult to use an example to create something similar for archival material since it is fairly similar.
I know these guys were looking to do something along those lines… dunno if it is helpful for you.
https://www.archivematica.org/
-
First, with the vast amount of screens and theaters, it would be a monumental task to have a profile for each theater, especially when many theaters have mix of equipment. Second, there is no need to begin with. The whole idea behind the SMPTE and DCI specifications is to ensure all content providers, vendors, and exhibitors are in compliance to a single standard. However, just like many things it takes time for everyone to reach compliance.
-
I figured I’d reply to this thread, since I’ve been doing some work on open source DCP stuff. The referenced step workflow has been tested on Dolby and Doremi servers with success. The problem is there are a lot of variables that can come into play. For example, I’ve been using the workflow flawlessly, but just recently somebody had issues where the images were all messed up. It turned out their source content was encoded in YCrCb and not sRGB and that particular scenario hadn’t been dealt with. So, in that case there is an additional conversion needed. I don’t think EasyDCP deals with YCrCb images either.
So… It is getting better and it can be done, but it may require some investigation. If you give yourself time to experiment and deal with these issues it can be rewarding to tackle yourself. If you are on a tight schedule, you might want to go the professional route.