Tutorial: Exporting for Digital Cinema with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014

Adobe发布了 上周更新了所有的Creative Cloud应用程序, and one of the new features available in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder is the ability to export a Digital Cinema Package. 如果你主要是一个流媒体/在线视频制作人, 作为制作人，您可能熟悉这种格式, 但作为消费者，你肯定对它很熟悉. If you've ever gone to a theater in the last few years and noted that it was a digital cinema, 你看的电影是用DCP传送的. 

DCP里有什么?

A DCP is not necessarily one file; it's actually a group of files, typically created by post-production house that specializes in creating DCP files of short films, 独立电影, 好莱坞大片, 诸如此类. If you're going to deliver your work in a digital cinema--instead of, or in addition to other delivery media like on-demand online video, DVD, 或者蓝光光盘——你必须制作一个DCP. 

Creating a DCP has been sort of a black art over the last few years. 这不是一个简单的过程, 或者被理解为, or even available to most producers unless they had very expensive, 专门的软件, or paid a lot of money to someone else who had the capabilities to create them. 有些人已经开始自己编写DCP文件, and using a terminal to create all the necessary XML and MXF files.

Adobe与一家名为 Quvis 它创建了一个名为Wraptor的应用程序(现在是版本3).0) that has been in the market for a number of years and has been used by a lot of big Hollywood firms to create their DCP files for big-budget films. 在DCP研究中, 我听说一些好莱坞电影项目的预算高达20美元,创建DCP. 这可能不是一些预算的很大一部分, but it gives you an idea of how important this final output of a production is when the film in question is going to be delivered on a big screen in a digital cinema. 

为什么DCP?

你可能想知道为什么, 作为一个流媒体/在线视频制作人, 你首先就会想要生成DCP. One reason is that you want your content to appear on as many screens as possible. As online video producers we've experienced this with televisions and 移动 devices. 当然, 剧院比这些场所存在的时间都要长, but traditionally if you've been producing video for online delivery you haven't been producing for theaters. 但是有了Adobe Media Encoder的新DCP功能, you have this capability built into an application that you're already using, and you can start using it with some small modifications or additions to your export workflow.

Let's say you have a corporate event where there are some large audiences that are going to need to go to a central place, 比如当地的剧院, to see something that was pre-recorded at the company's headquarters. Or maybe you have something like the project I'll be using in this tutorial (下面的图1), 这段现场演唱会的录像很受欢迎, and the client wants to show it in some theaters in a bigger metro area or in some different cities.

图1. 我们的音乐会录像.

So you can now create content that will be compatible with all the different digital cinema systems and displayed the way you intend it to be seen.