Covered Items
- FilmMaker Tutorials
- Showrunner Tutorials
Example of activating AutoDCP from a filmmaker welcome letter.
Festival runner monritoring tools of signups and deliveries.
Example of making a DCP with AutoDCP.
Example of uploading an existing DCP to AutoDCP for subsequent e-delivery to a particpating festival.
Example of e-delivering a DCP to a particpating festival
Keeping track of the filmmakers, who’ve sent what and who’s needing attention.
The theater simply needs the festival DCP’s all gathered up and sent to them on a HDD they can deal with. Instead of shipping many drives to the theater, AutoDCP make it possible to ship all the DCP’s consolidated onto a single drive (or a small collection of drives vrs a myriad of unorganized media).
AutoDCP validates and organizes all the filmmakers deliverables within the festivals dropbox account in the folder Apps/AutoDCP/delivereables automatically.. Each filmmaker’s DCP will be placed under Apps/AutoDCP/deliverables/festivalname in its own folder named “filmmaker@emailaddress/dcpname”
Simply copy the edelivered DCP’s from the deliverables folder on to an external HDD, and give that to the theater.
One catch. That HDD needs to be formatted in a way a theater can read it. It needs to be formatted as NTFS or EXT2. It can’t be formatted for a Mac, or exFat. Theaters can’t read those harddrive formats.
To be pedantic, most theaters actually want the HDD which is housed inside a special container called a CRU. But today, many theaters can accomodate new USB3 type drives. Check to confirm with your theater that they are okay with a newer USB3 drive formatted either as NTFS or EXT2. If not here are the official digital theater requirements supported by all theaters worldwide.
The official delivery method is via a HDD contained within a CRU carrier. The HDD must follow a couple rules
If the festival would like to hire AutoDCP to create the show drive for them, we are happy to do so. There is fee for this service, please contact us for details.
Working from a Mac,? You will definitely want the Paragon drivers.
Pictured below is what a CRU carrier looks like as well as links to NTFS/EXT2 software for a mac which you are welcome to use if your mac can’t already read/write NTFS/EXT2 harddrives.
Power user note: Dropbox’s “selective sync” feature lets receive DCP’s directly to your externally connected HDD/CRU! No more having to copy files last minute. DCP’s just appear on the show drive as filmmakers edeliver them to you.