This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] [OT] DCP File Creation

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] [OT] DCP File Creation

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Mahavier" <jay_mahavier@earthlink.net>

> Now, I recently was helping on a short film and had a DCP of it processed
> through both Clipster and EasyDCP.
> The one from Clipster looked more
> like what we had expected it to look like from the grading sessions. The
> one from EasyDCP was bright by comparison.

Jay, this says absolutely nothing at all without some more information.
First, i don't buy the 'turn key' box stuff. Avid used to be a 'turn key'
box
("no, this is not a mac with software and a special graphical card, this is
an 'avid'...)
It's all done in software, and price has not necceserally to do with
quality. Speed neither.

If you say one was brighter:
Did you look at both files on the same playout system?
Was this playout set up to match the grading looks?
Where both DCP files made from the same source?
Did both guys who made the output know what they were doing?

Bouke

VideoToolShed
van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
6512 AS NIJMEGEN
The Netherlands
+31 24 3553311
www.videotoolshed.com

Jay

On Mar 6, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Benjamin Hershleder wrote:

>
>
> Thanks Bouke!
> I'll investigate further.
>
> Cheers,
>
> B
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>
> On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:16 PM, bouke wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Benjamin Hershleder" Ben@ContactBen.com>
>> -,
>>>
>>> Two questions:
>>>
>>> 1-
>>> Can anyone recommend a place (preferably in Los Angeles)
>>> to get a DCP (Digital Cinema Package) file for theatrical exhibition?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> 2-
>>> Is it really going to cost about $40/minute (i.e. $3,600 for a 90 minute
>>> film)?
>>
>> No.
>> It can be done with (free) open source stuff, and with a decent computer
>> it
>> will be done in less than a day.
>> There are young kids who will do this for a couple of hundred or less.
>> Even I can do it, but have not yet been able to test, and i don't have
>> that
>> much demand, unless it is very last minute.
>> So, you should be done for less than 1K, and 500 would be a fair price if
>> it's just straight copy.
>> If you have a (small) theatre you can bug to toy around, do it yourself.
>>
>> Bouke
>>
>> VideoToolShed
>> van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
>> 6512 AS NIJMEGEN
>> The Netherlands
>> +31 24 3553311
>> www.videotoolshed.com
>>
>>>
>>> TIA!
>>>
>>> B
>>> ----
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>>> Book: http://tinyurl.com/avidmc-book
>>> Site: http://ContactBen.com
>>>
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