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Author Topic: Transferring DCP to tape? Joel Shepard Film Handler Posts: 6 From: San Francisco, CA 94103 Registered: Apr 2007 posted 04-18-2012 02:07 PM                     Hello all. I'm doing a Filipino film festival this summer. It's all "indie" type films, no studio/commercial titles (which tend to be very, very bad). There are several titles which are only available on DCP or DVD, kind of like steak vs dog food. However, we're not set up yet to show DCP. Does anyone out there know if DCP can be transferred to something like Digibeta tape? I understand this goes against one of the purposes of DCP, which is to foil piracy. But, still, there must be a way to do it...? Thanks for any info. -- Joel Shepard Film/Video Curator Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St San Francisco CA 94103 USA www.YBCA.org  |  IP: Logged Antti Nayha Master Film Handler Posts: 268 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-18-2012 02:14 PM                     Indie/non-commercial DCP’s might be unencrypted, and in that case it’s certainly possible to ”rip” the contents with the right tools. For encrypted DCP’s, the only way is to project it and shoot the projection with a good HD camera. (You will need a KDM to be able to project it, of course.)  |  IP: Logged Joel Shepard Film Handler Posts: 6 From: San Francisco, CA 94103 Registered: Apr 2007 posted 04-18-2012 02:18 PM                     OK, they're definitely not encrypted. If anyone knows of any dubbing houses who could handle such a project, I hope you'll let me know.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 04-18-2012 05:12 PM                     I would know how to do it myself (it is relatively easy to create a common TIF sequence + WAV file from unencrypted DCPs). However, there are some possible pitfalls, and for a festival I would probably prefer a proper service company. There are a few DCP software players for PCs (again, unencrypted only) - if you play the DCPs through an HDMI port on the graphics card, it is again 'relatively easy' to capture this in realtime with e.g. a BlackMagicDesign HDMI capture card, including audio - which in turn means - you could also buy one of these DCP players + a decent PC to play these DCPs on the festival. http://www.easy-dcp.de/index.php?language=en_GB&if1 http://www.digitall.net.au/products - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marin Zorica Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 671 From: Biograd na Moru, Croatia Registered: May 2003 posted 04-19-2012 03:41 PM                     I did many of film festivals here, and always doing research some months before. Than if there is simillar situation I try to get other media from producer, since they want to present theire movie to audience, there was no problem to get it in other media. Specialy when you explain that renting dcp for just one show is eaxpencive or so.  |  IP: Logged

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