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Author Topic: Interop/SMPTE Carl Hetherington Film Handler Posts: 93 From: York, North Yorkshire, England Registered: Jul 2012 posted 01-09-2019 09:09 AM                        Hi all, I thought this has been discussed recently but a search hasn't turned it up. What DCPs are being sent out now by the big distributors? Interop or SMPTE? Thank you! Carl  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 01-09-2019 09:31 AM                     Getting very few SMPTE DCP's. I have been making everything in SMPTE here though.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-09-2019 09:55 AM                        From what I've been seeing on service calls, Disney and Sony are now pretty much all SMPTE, but the others are a mix. I believe that some of the studios ship SMPTE by default but will stil provide Interop on request. When I make DCPs for others now, I use Interop if there is no need for anything that Interop cannot support (e.g. a non-24 frame rate), and SMPTE if there is.  |  IP: Logged Rick Cohen Expert Film Handler Posts: 102 From: Amherst, New York Registered: Feb 2011 posted 01-09-2019 01:52 PM                        From NATO: "Be it resolved that motion picture distributors and exhibitors operating in the 'domestic' market of the United States and Canada will fully transition to SMPTE DCP by 9 April 2019."  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-09-2019 08:58 PM                     The majority is still Interop, but the end is near. April will see a larger shift in the US, and then other countries will follow quickly. Some countries are still doing their homework, that is, performing the ISDCF or EDCF SMPTE compatibility tests. I guess 2019 will be the turning point. https://www.smptedcp.com - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Kieran Hall Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Coventry, UK Registered: Nov 2017 posted 01-18-2019 07:54 PM                        Here in the UK, only Disney send us SMTPE DCPs. They sent out an email beforehand saying that they were making the switch with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp, and to report any issues etc.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-18-2019 09:57 PM                        FWIW: Sony Pictures Classics Stan and Ollie trailer is SMPTE. We'll see what the feature is in a few weeks.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 01-18-2019 11:21 PM                     Martin- Just FYI, I did a media/press screening of "Stan & Ollie" back in mid November and the DCP Deluxe sent me for that event was interop.  |  IP: Logged Allan Barnes Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: GRAND BEND, ONTARIO, CANADA Registered: Mar 2009 posted 01-19-2019 02:22 AM                        Why the change to SMPTE type DCP ?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 01-19-2019 06:06 AM                     The so far common Interop-Format was always meant to be transitional, however, it took very long to get everything together to get the final SMPTE format going. The differences are not so huge, though, chances are you already played some SMPTE DCPs without noticing it. https://cinepedia.com/packaging/interop-smpte-dcp/ https://www.smpte.org/sites/default/files/2016-04-06-ST-DCP-Mitchel-Witham-V4-Handout-2.pdf - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-19-2019 06:18 PM                        Correction: Just looked at my trailers, it was Shoplifters, not Stan & Ollie that was SMPTE.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-19-2019 06:45 PM                        Looking at our most recent movies, 8 of 10 were SMPTE. Only On the Basis of Sex and Vice were IOP. I can't remember which one it was, but one of the recent releases we did receive both SMPTE and IOP. Trailers are almost exclusively IOP. The only exception is we have one version of most Disney titles which is SMPTE; my guess is these are versions distributed with features.  |  IP: Logged Annli Com Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: ShibuPaul-India Registered: May 2014 posted 01-20-2019 04:51 AM                        In india SMPTE Content using only for Atmos verions.  |  IP: Logged

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