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Basic 5 Steps to Using AutoDCP

May 15, 2023

festival management, FirstTimeInfo, Help

Covered Items What is a DCP and why are they used? FilmMaker Tutorials Requirements Activating Making a DCP Copying a previously made DCP into your Dropbox account Delivering a DCP to your Festival (all filmmakers must complete this step) Showrunner…

Has my festival received my DCP?

July 15, 2021

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If you use AutoDCP eDelivery to send your DCP to a festival it will send you an email receipt confirming the delivery. You can also confirm receipt by the following: Log into your AutoDCP account Go to your User Account…

How long does it take to uploading your source or an existing DCP?

March 15, 2020

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Is it taking too long to upload your source or an existing DCP? Maybe it is. If you are using an internet browser like safari, chrome, firefox, or IE, to manually upload your source, or DCP. We strongly suggest you…

File a Support Ticket

March 1, 2020

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Can’t figure it out? File a support ticket by clicking the below button. Please note you’ll need to be a registered user. Create a Support TicketYoutube Videos on AutoDCPTopics for FilmmakersTopics for FestivalsinfoHelp Topics — For FilmmakersinfoHelp Topics — For…

edelivery

December 22, 2018

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AutoDCP Digital Delivery Serivces. Overview Studio Supported Services Paypal Subscription & Canceling Key benefits e-delivery is a monthly subscription service use it to delivery your DCP’s to supporting festivals free DCP redo’s no questions asked. If you need to redo…

Source Requirements for Theatrical Playback

December 21, 2018

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Best practices Making a DCP with AutoDCP is easy. Take your source, drop it in your dropbox account and voila your source is converted into a DCP for playback at any DCI equipped theater. AutoDCP supports many source formats, and…

Common mistakes when making a DCP, a must read.

November 19, 2016

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Here’s a short check list to insure your get the best you can out of AutoDCP. Depending on the aspect of your movie, make sure your source is of the right resolution. Here’s are the important numbers 2.39 Aspect (most…

Quick Start Guide

September 9, 2016

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Go to autodcp.com and click on “Activate”. Here’s a shortcut to the button. (NOTE: You’ll need a Dropbox account to use AutoDCP.) Once you’ve successfully activated AutoDCP, the Dropbox will create an AutoDCP folder in your Dropbox account (Dropbox/Apps/Autodcp.) …

Using AutoDCP to make a DCP (if the festival did not provide a signup link)

October 11, 2021

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DO NOT use these instructions if your festival is using AutoDCP, ie they gave you an instruction letter with a signup link in it. Instead follow your festival’s instructions in that letter, and or click the button below for details…

DCP Playlists… or a neat trick for faster DCP making!

March 20, 2021

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Want to get things done faster? If your movie is over twenty minutes in length this might help you. Digital cinema supports the concept of a playlist, this is simply the ability for a projectionist to create a playlist from…

How to Blow up a Death Star

December 15, 2015

Bruce Logan, DP Corner

How to Blow up a Death Star I’ve worked on a lot of high profile films in a career that I have been blessed with, but nothing seems to get more people’s attention than when I tell them… I blew…

It’s Like, Too Loud~! – Quality Active

February 26, 2016

Charles Flynn, Theater Engineering

The first instinct for controlling “Too Loud” in the movie theater is “Turn it down.” We drive to the movie theater. We pay for our ticket. We sit for a while in soft lighting (wondering if we’re going to be…

Creating a theater compatible HDD aka Theaters can’t read mac drives.

May 14, 2023

festival management, Help

AutoDCP puts all your DCPs into its own folder located within your Dropbox account, here (Dropbox/Apps/AutoDCP/dcps/dcpfoldername): For example the above picture shows a DCP in the the folder ‘testclip1’, a DCP which consists of six files. Simply copy the folder…

What does a ‘Projection Report’ look like?

February 11, 2023

festival, questionanswers, Uncategorized

This projection report provides the information a theater requires in order to play your film Here’s how to use this report: Once you have cut off submissions to your festival, click the button below to download this report as…

Who uses AutoDCP?

January 27, 2023

festival, questionanswers

To date thousands of filmmakers have used it and hundreds of festivals, it has of course been used by many of the studios in Los Angeles. Today AutoDCP continues to work heavily with the Hollywood industry and standards groups like…

On the Importance of Camera Coverage

August 4, 2016

Bruce Logan, DP Corner

On the Importance of Camera Coverage Camera coverage is the additional footage the director and director of photography shoot so that later the director can make alternative creative choices in the way the scene is cut, in the way it…

Does AutoDCP delivery the DCPs to the theater?

February 11, 2023

festival, questionanswers

No. All DCPs are delivered to the festival Dropbox folder organized in a way in which they can be copied to an external HDD for delivery to the theater. The festival is responsible for getting the HDD to the theater.…

Some of my past filmmaker DCP’s were too loud, is there anything that can be done about that?

January 27, 2023

festival, questionanswers, Uncategorized

If the filmmaker is using AutoDCP to make a DCP with our tools, our system automatically runs several tests against the filmmakers source prior to making a DCP for them. All DCP jobs submitted by a filmmaker include a “preflight…

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