JeSuisRaphael wrote:Hello,
It's certainly a basic question but I don't know the answer:
During the register of my film in a festival, they ask me; which is the shooting format?
And I have those choices: beta, numeric beta, beta sp, blu-ray, DCP Jpeg 2000, DV, DVCAM, DVD, HDCAM, Mobile.
I shot with a BMPCC 4k in BRaw Q0.
Can you tell me in which format I shot please?
Bests regards.
Raphael
Yeah, these gents are asking about your output - not shooting format.
They want to know if you'll send them a tape or a DCP 2K/4K and in 5.1 or 2.0 etc..
4K DCP should be able to play in a 2K projector/ so just make sure your bitrate matches most movies released on DCP - if memory serves right, around 125Mbps in JPEG2000 at 4K.
They can care less what you actually shot it on. So if you're doing a DCP just tell them 2k or 4k, and I don't know what the sound mix is, 5.1 or 2.0 - but you need to tell them that too... Just make sure your DCP is not incompatible with their projectors file system, some are NTFS, some are Ext4, some are HFS+/Ext4 - I would do a dry run at a small cinema (usually $150) using Dolby and Doremi or similar before shipping the DCP to place unknown to make sure they can load it from your USB drive into the projector, and some projectors even support FTP for the MXF bins so you won't even need to ship them anything on physical media, then they really wont care about the file system - just leave the Crypto/DRM out of it, unless you must have it and know what to do with key management.
Things to remmeber for DCP, your framerate should be 24.00 not 23.98 - your frame resolutions should be proper 2k or 4k scope or full, your audio might need a speedup from 48,000khz to 48.048Khz match 24.00 frame rate - unless you posted the film at 24.00.