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Topic: DCP Screening at different cinemas and KDMs for each
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Sayed Faiz
Film Handler
Posts: 4
From: Glenfield NSW Australia
Registered: Oct 2016
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posted 10-20-2016 07:02 PM
Hi. Please excuse my lack of understanding. But I am a newbie to this. I live in Sydney, Australia. I am screening a movie from Bangladesh here in Australia wide for all states. The movie is a DCP movie and is encrypted. Now I am trying to understand the following. Although we have booked several cinemas at each state, depending on how good the response is, we may to have to change the cinema location and cinema venue at the last minute. However, I have already got the encrypted DCP hard drive with me. So my question is, in case I need to go to a complete different venue and location, do I need to send the DCP back to overseas to Bangladesh to update the new location details and new server address etc (since it is encrypted before with different cinema halls)? Or can it be shown to a different cinema without me needing to courier it back to overseas? If there is last minute cinema location change, then sending the DCP hard drive back overseas and getting them back in time won't be possible. So I am trying to know if we have to send the DCP hard drive back to Bangladesh or can they just send me the KDM for the new location by email, without the need for the cinema DCP hard drive to be transported back to re-encrypt with the new location information. If the DCP can be decrypted at the new location without the need for me to re-transporting back to overseas via courier, then it will make it easy logistically for me.
So please let me know that given I have currently with me the DCP hard drive with me, and so if there is a need in future to change the cinema location and venue, then can I just get the new KDM for the new location via email, without requiring me to re-transport back the DCP to overseas to encrypt with the new location details or getting a new DCP created?
your help would be much appreciated. In your response, if you could explain in details the answer (since I am a newbie), then it will help me in getting the full information and understanding of this system
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
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Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 10-20-2016 07:47 PM
In a nutshell, the process is follows:
The HD and the KDMS are simply two separate items in hand.
The content in the HD can be placed in any server anywhere, but to play the content, the key that comes from the studios has checksum in that key that needs to match the server's serial number where the content is stored in. Thus, the key will allow the content to be played.
Example: you have four servers at your location. They would Server "A", Server "B", Server "C", and Server "D". You're scheduled to play that content in the "A" and "B" server. Thus, you would need two keys - one for Server "A" and one for Server "B" to play the content. Now, you get a new schedule to play that content only on Server "C". You ingest the content in Server "C" and will receive a key for Server "C".
Keys remains with the servers, and keys will have a time limit on them when they will allow the content to be played.
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Leslie Hartmier
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 100
From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 10-24-2016 08:19 PM
Everyone else has given you the information to answer your question, but I would give you a warning/recommendation.
If there is a chance, no matter how slight, that you will need to run the content on a different machine, if the distributors are willing, you should get KDMs for every one of those machines.
We have had some experience with last minute KDM requests (Technicolor and Deluxe are less of a problem, since they are basically 24/7), and I can say that it would commonly end up with waits of multiple days, which was very stressful for the location trying to run the content.
If you can get KDMs for all the most likely machines, you will be able to sleep better.
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