A bit mystified by Fraunhofer easyDCP offer

Anyone else get this email from Fraunhofer this morning?

"At NAB 2018 Blackmagic Design decided to add own features for the im- and export of DCP and IMF packages into DaVinci Resolve. Starting with version 15 of DaVinci Resolve these features became available recently and allow the generation of unencrypted IMF or DCP packages without additional costs.

We - the developers of easyDCP - were not involved in this decision process and were very surprised by the announcement.

We have therefore decided to streamline our product line and offer only one easyDCP product for DaVinci Resolve. This new product includes all available modules including packet encryption and decryption.

We have also decided to provide all customers with service contracts with this new version of the license - free of charge. Your old license remains functional, but can be replaced by activating the new license using your web-account at easyDCP.com.

If it is a "free upgrade" why does it take me to the "bundles" page, and show me the full price ( that is, NOT free) and if you pay attention to the wording, maybe its the "also" that is the key wording as they have apparently merely decided to drop the "Service Contract" continuing charge? That is the "upgrade"?

Maybe its a language barrier?
But maybe also time to move on from that plugin.

jPo, CSI

I was a little confused by this as well, but If you are on version 15 all you have to do is re-request your license file and install it into DR15 and it will give you full licensing for all the modules.

C

What's the price for the "bundle "?

price for the "bundle "?

Last time I checked, it was around €8,000 so this is not insignificant.
They have been running a stand-alone special deal for the past month for Support Contract holders, but it looks like not enough license holders were interested now that BMD (Mr. Petty) has done *what they do*.

jPo, CSI

It's the Resolve plugin that's a lot cheaper, it used to be around 2000+ euro, now it's only around 800 euro without VAT outside europe.

It's the Resolve plugin that's a lot cheaper, it used to be around 2000+ euro, now it's only around 800 euro without VAT outside europe.

That is a bargain.

whats the difference between that and the resolve one?

Do you mean Kakadu? For one, it doesn't encrypt.

Also, the Frauenhofer encoder is faster.

Do you mean Kakadu? For one, it doesn't encrypt.

true, but if I have to encrypt i will use an existing distribution service (like Deluxe).

OK, speed difference, but it is not that at the moment is slow, it can do the encoding pretty fast as it is.

the nice thing about the DR15 kakadu for me is: i can now render DCPs from my beefy linux machine!

didn't test it in cinema, but will do soon!

and as a former projectionist i don't like encryption at all . and it might be slower, but it is still faster on my linux machine (supermicro, double Intel Xeon E5 2687Wv4 3,0 GHz, 12-Core) and three titan pascal x) than on my hackintosh with my i7 8-core 3ghz and one titan with finaldcp. and finaldcp is pretty fast as well.

i am not sure if the gpu is used when rendering kakadu... is it?

if anyone is testing the kakadu dcp-engine meanwhile, please post your results!

one thing i do wonder: is there the possibility to change the gamma of your viewing environment when creating dcps? in finaldcp there is, and also in dcp-o-matic and i assume in easydcp as well.

Making DCP (with Kakadu encoding) is quite fast in Resolve 15. I would leave encryption to the distribution agencies or whenever BMD wants to bring in encryption into the Resolve pipeline.

Resolve 15 can also play unencrypted DCPs. That's amazing. Actually we are getting a DCP player for free. EasyDCP's DCP player costs 1199 euros. If at some point BMD adds the facility of playing encrypted DCPs, with the Resolve license creating a virtual leaf certificate, everything is settled for us.

Only one point. I am noticing a small gamma shift when I render out a DCP from Resolve. I am also noticing the same gamma shift if I make the DCP in other software (Qubemaster Pro in my case) and playing back in Resolve. I hope this will be addressed soon in a future upgrade.