DIGITAL CINEMA PACKAGE MASTERING FOR INDIES
If you are filmmaker, producer, distributor or exhibitor, you may have run into the challenge of creating a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) for showing your film, trailer or other work in digital cinemas around the world. Currently, software to master DCP’s is very expensive and rates charged by post houses even more expensive. And often, the DCP files are subject to problems, compatibility errors and encoding artifacts.
SV2 Studios pioneered low-cost, hiqh quality DCP creation here in North Carolina for several of our own projects. The process we use relies on specialized open source tools that we have extensively customized. With our extensive background in post-production, film-outs, computing as well much trial and error figuring out the very complex process of DCP creation, your DCP project will have equal or better quality to much more expensive solutions.
We are making this available to indie & DIY filmmakers, low-budget distributors and others that want to showcase their projects using the same state-of-the-art digital cinema systems big budget Hollywood releases get. We will hand-hold you through the steps required to prep your film (or can do it for you), create and test your DCP and troubleshoot playback issues (unfortunately, DCP files never all play on all systems).
Our DCP creation services include:
- Conforming your film to 24.000 (or 48.000 for 3D material) frames per second
- Insuring sound sync on conversion to 24.000 frames per second
- HD, 2k, 4k processing including aspect ratio matching
- 2D and 3D DCP’s at 24 & 48 fps
- Color-space conversion to DCI/DCP colorspace
- Rendering converted image and sound to MXF wrapped DCI files
- XML file creation for both SMTPE and Interop compliance
- Formatting media drives for DCI server ingesting and playback
DCP Standard Packages (complete pricelist here):
- 2K SHORT: 1080p HD 23.976 Stereo to 2K DCP with QA Screening: $635
- 4K SHORT: 4K Red Camera 23.976 fps 5.1 to 4K DCP with QA Screening: $900
- 2K FEATURE: 1080p HD 23.967 Stereo to 2K DCP with QA Screening: $1235
- 4K FEATURE: 4k Red Camera 23.976 fps 5.1 to 4K DCP with QA Screening: $1900
