For the Capture15 screening in The Showroom on 19th May, we have to ingest our films onto the projector by making them into DCP (Digital Cinema Package) files. This involved me exporting the film, with the soundtrack on, as an Avid 1x1 file so it is completely uncompressed and the highest quality possible. I then had to put it into DCP-o-Matic and create a 2k, flat DCP file that I put onto a NTSF formatted hard drive for the Showroom's projector to ingest. Tom was our lead technician which meant that we had to get all the files to him before the relevant deadlines for the tech rehearsals and eventually the final screening.
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| DCP export settings. |
There were a number of problems during this process, mainly being that the Showroom's system is 9 years old and using a linux operating system which meant that it could only ingest footage from hard drives formatted for PC only (NTSF) which we didn't know originally. As the majority of the course edit from Macs, no one had a PC only hard drive to ingest the footage off so we had to work around it by borrowing one from the showroom and transferring all the films onto that. I helped Tom out here by giving people advice and guidance when it came to getting their DCP's screened, especially as it took so long to transfer these big files from Mac to PC.
After navigating this problem we did manage to see our film on the big screen where I could analyse the colour and make sure it kept the grade we wanted, which it had. It was also a good opportunity for us to test out the sound where the director and myself gave any notes or opinions we had on it so the sound designer could make changes when necessary.
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| Viewing the film for the final time before Capture15. |
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