Creation of a DCP 2398 PSF

Hello,

I'm looking at trying to do a screening at the Lammle theater. The man who they are bringing in to do digital projections says that he needs a DCP 2398i

Is that something I can do myself from my uncompressed 8 bit 1080 file?

And what, if I can, would I need to output it as?

Thanks
Carole

I think he is alluding to 23.976fps video.
I googles your term DCP 2398 PSF and came up dry.

Do you know what frame rate your video is in?




ditzydame Wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at trying to do a screening at the
> Lammle theater. The man who they are bringing in
> to do digital projections says that he needs a DCP
> 2398i
>
> Is that something I can do myself from my
> uncompressed 8 bit 1080 file?
>
> And what, if I can, would I need to output it as?
>
> Thanks
> Carole

Thanks for responding

yes, its already 23.98. I figured that it might be a frame rate, but, I don't know what the DCP is

Carole

Are you sure it wasn't DCI?

It might have been DCI. I unfortunately wrote Down both, so I was hoping someone here would know what I was talking about Either way, if I gave enough information.

Carole

Now that I think of it, I think it's unlikely this has anything to do with the DCI spec. That spec mandates 24 frames per second exactly, not 23.976. Anything that's 23.976 would be incompatible with the DCI specification.

So I take it back. I have absolutely no idea what we're talking about here. Sorry.

Hah! thanks for giving it a whack thouugh!

digital intermediate for film out?

Ask em again for more info. None of us know what this is.

Is it DCP 2398i , or DCP 2398 PSF, or DCI 23.976 FPS, or something else entirely?

Hello, I will check. but DCP 2398 PSF with Left and Right sound was what he told me.

Its to project in a theatre for academy consideration.

Carole

Does 'left and right' sound mean stereo, or dual mono? I think you're talking to the wrong person...

Stereo. Do you have a suggestion of another board I should take up this line of questioning?

Thanks so much!
Carole

No - I mean the person who is giving you the specs isn't giving you accurate tech-talk to work with. You could certainly try the Creative Cow or 2-Pop forums, but these are not terms that any of us have ever heard, so it's likely to be bad information to begin with.

It's like they are saying 'I want an animal. The one with legs on three and a half, with ears, that does that thing when it moves.'

Ha! thats funny-- cause thats actually what it sounded like he was saying to me when I asked him to repeat it... sigh.

Do you know what folks actually project as Digital files? When the project digitally for theaters, I mean. Basically I'm just trying to get to that.

carole

I found one reference to that term - it could be they want a 'Digital Cinema Package'. According to the Wiki ...

"Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint venture of the six major studios, published a system specification for digital cinema.[1] Briefly, the specification calls for picture encoding using the ISO/IEC 15444-1 "JPEG2000" (.jp2) standard and use of the CIE XYZ color space at 12 bits per component encoded with a 2.6 gamma applied at projection, and audio using the "Broadcast Wave" (.wav) format at 24 bits and 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling, controlled by an XML-format Composition Playlist, into an MXF-compliant file at a maximum data rate of 250 Mbit/s. Details about encryption, key management, and logging are all discussed in the specification as are the minimum specifications for the projectors employed including the color gamut, the contrast ratio and the brightness of the image. While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content."

If I were you, I would be contacting a post house that does this for a living.