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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 01-19-2015 11:52 AM
I showed this as part of a "New Italian Cinema" season last fall (autumn). While I can't recall having had any problem with this particular DCP, I did have various issues with some of the others in the same shipment.
As a general rule, the lower the budget and more obscure the origin of a DCP, the more likely it is to have errors and glitches in it. Desktop computing has now evolved to the point at which it's possible to make DCPs from the typical rendered output that independent and low budget "film" makers end up with (high bitrate ProRes files, usually), and there are even free programs, e.g. OpenDCP and DCP-o-Matic, that will create them.
Most of the time these DCPs play without any problems, but the quality control isn't as reliable as if a professional post house does them, because a post house will typically test the DCP it has just made on most of the server models typically found in theaters before releasing it to the customer.
With the German, Spanish and Italian mini-seasons we ran last year, the most common problems were distribution drives formatted as HFS/HFS+ (the MacOS native format) and thus not being recognized by our server, and SMPTE subtitles not working on the DSS200 and series 1 projector combination in one of our houses.
My rule of thumb is that if a DCP comes from anywhere other than a big Hollywood studio, proceed with caution and test thoroughly in advance of showtime.
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