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Post-production · DCP

DCP creation from your ProRes master.

Screening at a festival or a cinema? Send us a link to your ProRes master and we’ll send back a cinema-ready DCP: SMPTE, 2K or 4K, 5.1 or stereo, colour converted properly and verified before it leaves us.

Order a DCP What we need from you

£4.00 a minute, £75 minimum, VAT included. Your card is only charged once we accept the job.

What you get

SMPTE DCP

The current cinema standard, unencrypted and ready to ingest on any modern cinema server. Interop on request for older venues.

2K or 4K, Flat or Scope

Your master placed correctly in a Flat or Scope container: 1998×1080 or 2048×858 in 2K, 3996×2160 or 4096×1716 in 4K, with nothing cropped that shouldn’t be.

Colour converted properly

Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 to cinema colour (XYZ), so the picture on the big screen matches the grade you signed off, not a washed-out version of it.

5.1 or stereo

Your 5.1 mapped to the cinema channel order, checked channel by channel, or your stereo mix placed correctly. Any extra stereo tracks left out.

Named to the standard

A composition name in the Digital Cinema Naming Convention, so projectionists can find your film on the server at a glance.

Played and verified

Every DCP is played through and run through a SMPTE verifier before it goes back to you.

What we need

Your finished master

Export it from whatever you edited in. We make the DCP from the file exactly as you send it, so it should be the final, signed-off version.

  • ProRes 422 HQ or 4444, as a .mov
  • The film’s native resolution: 1920×1080 for a 2K DCP, 3840×2160 or larger for 4K
  • 24 or 25 fps. If yours is 23.976, export it at 24 or tell us first
  • Graded as Rec.709 Gamma 2.4, the normal broadcast and web standard
  • 5.1 embedded on channels 1–6 as L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs, or a stereo mix on 1–2
£4.00 a minute · £75 minimum

What comes back

A download link to your finished DCP within 3 working days of accepting the job and your master finishing downloading.

  • An unencrypted SMPTE DCP, 2K or 4K, Flat or Scope
  • Played through and verified before delivery
  • Priced by the length of the film, VAT included
  • Your card is only charged once we accept the job
  • Confidential, and deleted 7 days after delivery
Order a DCP

How an order works

Nothing is charged until we’ve accepted the job.

The turnaround starts once your master has finished downloading on our side: download times depend on your upload and link, which we can’t control.

Your film is treated as confidential: only the editor making your DCP sees it, it is never shared, and the master and the DCP are deleted from our drives 7 days after we deliver.

  1. 1 Send it over A download link to your ProRes master, its length and how the DCP should be set up. The price is worked out from the length.
  2. 2 Card held, not charged You pay on Stripe’s secure page. The amount is only authorised on your card.
  3. 3 We review the job Usually within one working day, and we email you either way. Can’t take it on? The hold is released and you pay nothing.
  4. 4 Accepted and charged We confirm by email with the date your DCP will be back, and take the payment.
  5. 5 DCP made and verified Encoded, played through, and checked channel by channel and against the SMPTE standard.
  6. 6 DCP back As a download link, within 3 working days of your master finishing downloading on our side.

Order a DCP

Fill this in, then pay by card on Stripe’s secure page. We’ll email to confirm, usually within one working day.

Film length
For example, a 12½-minute film is 0 hours, 12 minutes, 30 seconds.
WeTransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive, Frame.io or similar. Please keep it working until your DCP comes back.
Not sure? Tell us in the notes below and we’ll check the file before we accept the job.
4K needs a 3840×2160 or larger master. Plays on 2K projectors too, but check your festival’s spec.
Price, VAT included Enter the film’s length £4.00 a minute (part minutes round up), £75 minimum.

You’ll enter your card on Stripe’s secure page. It is authorised now and only charged once we accept the job; if we can’t take it on, the hold is released. We use these details only for your order, and your master and DCP are deleted 7 days after delivery; see our privacy policy.