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Author Topic: Loading DCP Content onto Hard drives Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-10-2011 03:05 PM                     I have been working with a local Independent film studio on getting content loaded onto a hard drive properly for a full digital presentation, but as I do not know anything about the studio side of loading content I am not much help beyond telling this studio that their content isn't ingesting properly, so I feel a bit useless. If someone knows about this and is willing to share info with me, it will be much appreciated.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-10-2011 07:25 PM                     See if you can get them in contact with the technical people that make the software for your servers. I would imagine they would be your best bet at diagnosing why the stuff isn't working and to give them any pointers. And is there any error log produced on the server when the ingesting fails? I'd imagine your technical support people would be able to glean information from that if it exists/was created.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-10-2011 07:32 PM                        I thought they were coming out there to load it for you.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-10-2011 07:58 PM                     Joe- they came out here and were unsuccessful themselves... Chris- The guy I talked to from our Sony tech support was able to tell me exactly what I already knew. The problem lies in the file itself, and not the ability of our media block to recognize it, and read/ingest it. So I am wondering if anyone has ever had any experience with formatting content to be used in a D Cinema scenario. I know the editing was used with final cut pro (mac elitists) so I do not know what is entailed when converting to linux.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-10-2011 09:28 PM                     As I said, they (as in the studio people) need to contact Sony. The people at Sony will be better at figuring out what is wrong with the file and what to tell the guys to do to make their files not be horribly broken.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-10-2011 10:44 PM                     I shall get them in contact with each other.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Spracklen Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Arlington, TX, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-10-2011 11:47 PM                     What kind of file are they trying to ingest exactly? It takes something a lot more specific than just converting a movie file to a linux format. Is it a DCP package? What software did they use to make it? Final Cut Pro cannot output a DCP package natively.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-11-2011 03:15 PM                     quote: Jeremy Spracklen What kind of file are they trying to ingest exactly? It takes something a lot more specific than just converting a movie file to a linux format. Is it a DCP package? What software did they use to make it? Final Cut Pro cannot output a DCP package natively. What's the something more specific? What software should they have used? I'm not sure what they used.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Spracklen Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Arlington, TX, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2011 04:23 PM                     I just output a DCP package and the file types inside were: 1. An Asset Map 2. 2 MXF files. 3. A CPL file. 4 A PKL file. Does the file that you are trying to ingest look something like that (different software will output slightly different packages)? Also, look at Film-Tech's Warehouse Page under DCI content. Download one of those and check out the file structure there. DCI CONTENT Compressor can be used, but you have to have a special plugin that is NOT easy to figure out and you have to have a VERY specific version of FCP to even get it to work.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 01-11-2011 04:48 PM                     Jeremy thank you for your help. I sent exactly what you said onto the representative I've been in contact with. This is what he said back. "That is what ours looks like plus there is also a volume index. Additionally, this DCP has a subdirectory that contains the subtitle file and its corresponding font file. The DCP was authored using a DVS clipster."  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Spracklen Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Arlington, TX, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-13-2011 02:15 AM                     I am not familiar with Clipster, so all I can really recommend is to do a new output from scratch. I know that sometimes I will output projects and they will play perfectly on a Dolby server but a Doremi will just ignore it. If I do a new output without changing a single setting, it will suddenly work.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-13-2011 11:24 AM                     They could also talk to DVS and mention the Sony servers. Did they make sure the media format for ingest is ext3? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged John Gavin Film Handler Posts: 12 From: Machida, Tokyo, Japan Registered: Nov 2010 posted 02-09-2011 02:44 AM                     If the correct files are on the media, then it is most likely that the video or audio or subtitle files were manipulated after the package was made. I have seen this happen where a last minute change resulted in the engineer replacing the audio file but not re creating the package so that the Assetmap did not match the current assets in the package. Which should be rejected by the server. Even if the file names appear correct the uuid number may be different.  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 02-09-2011 02:58 AM                     John, I think you hit it on the head. It worked just fine a few months ago, but they added subtitles to the DCP after they saw the need to subtitle locations. I will pass along this message. Thanks for your help.  |  IP: Logged

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