A lot of festivals want a DCP copy to show the projects, but I can't find a way to generate one. Is it possible and if so can you describe to me how to?
Thank you
Douglas Scott McCarron
Ah, ok thanks, I will quit trying to. Thank you much.
The website you linked me to is very informative and I think I understand it all.
You can use MEP to produce the necessary files to upload to the package using the program mentioned in the video.
Ray.
I will look into it
I guess I missed something. Can you tell me what MEP is? I didn't hear that in the video or was I not listening. Thank you
MEP= Movie Edit Pro. You can produce the files at the relative export resolutions needed manually.
Oh right. So In my movie pro x I can export at 24 and then let the program above carry out it's process.
You can use MEP to produce the necessary files to upload to the package using the program mentioned in the video.
You can use VPX or MEP to produce the files to use in DCP o matic.
The problem may come with the audio track if it is in 5.1 or more surround sound. They will also need copies with a stereo mix-down preferable with a 120Hz base cut on the sub base channel and the The multi-track versions will have to be re-encoded to SIMPTE specifications as the normal channel layout of L.R.C.B.RL.RR for video are not in that order for cinema use. Each copy of each file may be required at both 48kHz and 96kHz respectively.
This video will explain things more clearly. Click the picture at the top of the page to start the tutorial. Although the tutorial is for Pro Tools the steps should be the same if needed.
The reason it is a Pro tools video is because it is one of the two pro film editing packages specifically designed for work within the Film and TV industry. The other is Nuendo. Both can do basically everything that both Cinema and TV broadcasters require without the use of too many additional programs and work seamlessly with Pro video and audio mixing desks.
If you only have a stereo sound track then you only need worry about supplying copies of each resolution file at the two audio sample rates.
It may be worth talking to the cinema to ask precisely which files they expect to receive.
Ray.
Thank you for the education. I only have the stereo as I don't have a TV or surround sound system at home. I find them to distracting and it sounds like sounds editors working rather than sound of the show, at least to me. I belief I can do the 48 and 96kHz from Video Pro X.
