Hello everyone,
Am 30.09.2013 12:21, schrieb Carl Hetherington:

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.

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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.

Thanks for clearing that up, I was afraid I had missed a specific option/button, as OpenDCP seems to be able to handle those (albeit only using the command line).

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak to the technician which issued the warning - hi warning didn't reach me directly, but was retold by a non-technical employee of the festival, who didn't understand the problem himself.

The technician had no problem with the single-reel DCPs - he just was under the impression that the four packages contained one movie, rather than four self-contained episodes/short-films. That's why he was raising concerns, because that would be a rather unusual way to package a feature-length film, making problems at the transitional points where a seamless projection can't be guaranteed. The packages themselves were fine. ;-)

Greetings from Germany
Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci