The dream of creating DCPs for local commercials and film festivals by artists using simple yet affordable tools just took a monumental step forward with the latest advance of OpenDCP.
Created by a theater owner and long-time computer engineer, this tool uses a combination of Open Source tools to take a finished ‘movie’ and turn it into a package that can be played by a digital projection media player and projector. And, it is free.1
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Compliance in DCinema means compliance with the details of several standards groups and organizations. Video compression and Decompression will be compliant with JPEG 2000, a set of standards of the Joint Photographic Experts Group, audio formats are specified by AES (Audio Engineering Society) formats and encryption within the Advanced Encryption Standard of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Procession Standards (FIPS). Of course, the over-riding standards group who tied all the nuance together is the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
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The DCIMovies website now lists 3 NEC, 2 Chrisite, and 3 Barco projectors as having passed the Compliance Test Plan detailed procedures. All 3 manufacturers are utilizing the same version of the Texas Instruments (TI) Enigma board and what appears to be similar versions of software. Details are on the linked site above.
Christie Press Release Barco Press Release NEC Press Release
Christie has just announced that their CP 2220 Series 2 projector has passed muster at CineCert for DCI Compliance. The sentence that says that they are the first has me in an infinite loop, which prevents me from reading any more. There is probably some nuance that says that they did something that Barco didn’t do, but who knows…the rest of the press release just seems so release-y after that.
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There are many tangential groups who create and capture and manipulate the bits, from one lens at the capture point to the other at the exhibition poi[……]
Repository for EDCF Presentation of DCinema Training and Compliance presentation at IBC DCinema Days 2008.
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