On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have created four 24- to 32-minute long DCP packages for a friend and hobby
filmmaker who is going to screen them at a local movie festival. Now, I've
heard back from their technical department that the DCPs I made using
DVD-o-matic are single-reel and that "might cause problems", whatever that
means.
As far as I understand it, there is a convention to limit reels to somewhere
around 22 minutes (e.g. typical old "analog" reel size) to minimize problems
in transfer and handling and to keep the sizes of the files in the DCPs
reasonable. But I wouldn't have thought that a 32-minute single-reel DCP
might be problematic. Can anyone enlighten me on the subject? I'm no
projectionist or TMS technician (I'm helping my friend because I have
maginally more hobby experience creating DCPs than him), so there's a huge
question mark hanging above my head. :-)
Furthermore, is there any possibility to create multi-reel DCP packages via
DCP-o-matic, or to convert the single-reel packages into multi-reel using
open-source tools?
I'm afraid DCP-o-matic doesn't have that feature, yet ... although I
haven't experienced any problems with long reels on DCPs.
Best regards
Carl