If, after reading last week’s post about exhibition formats, you really want a DCP but lack the budget to get one professionally made, you’re in luck.
Danny Lacey has created a tutorial for OpenDCP, open software to create Digital Cinema Packages.
Danny says,
I’ll tell you what, this is going to open a lot of doors for Indie film makers too, I believe it’s going to be incredibly helpful for those going down the self distribution route. It’s quite simply chopping down the prices and expense of delivering your movie.
The 27-minute video has all the details but in a nutshell:
- Export your film as a 16-bit TIFF sequence.
- Use free, open source DCP software to convert the TIFF sequence into JPEG 2000
- The DCP software then wraps the video (JPEG2000) and audio (WAV) in to MXF files.
- The final stage is creating the DCP which generates 6 files that will be recognised by a DCP server.
My take: well worth the watch!