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Pretty much any digital cinema projection suite will be able to play your run of the mill quicktime/h264 file, so DCP is hardly a requirement to watch cat video
by durakot 10y ago
Pretty much any digital cinema projection suite will be able to play your run of the mill quicktime/h264 file, so DCP is hardly a requirement to watch cat videos on a cinema screen.
DCP can be a pain in the ass for indie filmmakers, though. These days it's easy to generate a DCP from footage, but basically impossible to test it without actually putting it through a DCP projector in a cinema. This is crazy.
- i336_ 10y agoWith no familiarity of the subject, I see a lot of DCP player programs. What do you mean by "test it"?
- e12e 10y agoI'm not sure what parent means, but I've projected quite a few DCP films made by individuals / beginners at movie festivals - hand often the technical quality is heart-breakingly bad: the colour, resolution, encoding/compression and sometimes frame rate can be off. Most of these are fixable if you know what you are doing. But it takes a lot of experience to imagine what a frame that looks great on a ~24 inch monitor will look like when projected in a theater. I would strongly recommend that anyone dreaming to screen something in cinemas make a deal with their local cinema in order to do test screenings - to check picture and sound. Just like with anything else, there's no substitute for testing under "real" conditions. Note that most(?) cinema setups will happily take some form of digital audio/video signal and run it through dolby surround and project it - so you don't have to start testing with a DCP file. But you certainly should test that in a cinema before distribution. Also note that the "player" part of a fixed installation might have quirks/bugs that software that's more easily updated might work around (think mplayer vs a cheap old DVD player).
- i336_ 10y agoTIL, thanks for the clarification and information. Definitely filed away.