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Premiere with DCP from Digital Cinema Mastering: Die Vorkosterinnen / The Tasters

On 5 May 2025 at Babylon Berlin!

Autumn 1943: Berlin is bombed and young Rosa Sauer flees to rural East Prussia while her husband fights as a soldier on the Eastern Front.
However, Hitler’s headquarters ‘Wolf’s Lair’ is located near the village: Rosa and other women are forcibly recruited by the SS and have to serve as tasters for the meals served to Hitler here. The situation escalates when Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt fails in the summer of 1944 and draconian measures are taken as a result. The women realise that the next attempt on Hitler’s life could be carried out with poison and that their lives are in danger – especially as the Red Army draws ever closer. When Rosa learns that one of the women is Jewish, she must find a way to save herself and her friend from certain death.

Tickets are available from Babylon Berlin:

https://babylonberlin.eu/film/8565-die-vorkosterinnen

More information about the project can be found in our references:

 

 

 

Premiere with DCP from Digital Cinema Mastering: Die Vorkosterinnen / The Tasters

On 5 May 2025 at Babylon Berlin!

Autumn 1943: Berlin is bombed and young Rosa Sauer flees to rural East Prussia while her husband fights as a soldier on the Eastern Front.
However, Hitler’s headquarters ‘Wolf’s Lair’ is located near the village: Rosa and other women are forcibly recruited by the SS and have to serve as tasters for the meals served to Hitler here. The situation escalates when Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt fails in the summer of 1944 and draconian measures are taken as a result. The women realise that the next attempt on Hitler’s life could be carried out with poison and that their lives are in danger – especially as the Red Army draws ever closer. When Rosa learns that one of the women is Jewish, she must find a way to save herself and her friend from certain death.

Tickets are available from Babylon Berlin:

https://babylonberlin.eu/film/8565-die-vorkosterinnen

More information about the project can be found in our references:

 

 

 

“The other fields” at the Filmreihe “Duisburg im Bilde”

In February, the Duisburg Film Week will be showing Marco Kugel’s and Simon Quack’s ‘Die anderen Plätze’ as part of its ‘Duisburg im Bilde’ film series. The football film, which is not really a football film, is about unemployment in professional football. The directors visited a training camp in Wedau, which the Association of Contract Footballers (VDV) organises every summer for professionals without a club.

The film will be followed by a discussion with Marco Kugel and Simon Quack.

Tickets and further information on the film and the series as a whole can be found here. Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 20:30, filmforum Duisburg.

We are delighted that we were allowed to create the DCP of the film in 2017 and wish you a good projection and a great conversation.

The other Fields

How does HFR (high frame rate) work in digital cinema?

HFR / High Frame Rate refers to frame rates of more than 24 frames per second. For decades, a standard of 24 images per second (frames per second, “fps”) was specified in the cinema. This was initially maintained during the transition to the digital age. The DCI Interop standard, which regulated the transition to the […]

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Recently delivered: Trailer DCP “TaT”

We created the Digital Cinema Package of the Trailer for the

Tête à Tête street-theater festival in Rastatt

From 24. – 29. May 2016 they offer a unique programme:

http://www.tete-a-tete.de/

And we would be there for sure, if not dokKa festival took place here in Karlsruhe at the same time!

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From May 24th to May 29th, the International Street Theater Festival tête-à-tête will transform the streets, squares and spaces of the Baroque city of Rastatt into creative and dramatic open-air stages for the 12th time since 1993.

Street theater is the most exciting and most direct expression of urban culture
Vivid mise-en-scène, poetic scenes and breathtaking artistry, dramatic spectacles and clownish acts… street theater creates images that are unforgettable! The power of this genre lies in its immediacy as spectators witness art from mere feet away.

This year’s tête-à-tête comes in a climate of change. After more than 20 years, the artistic direction of the festival has changed hands. Under the new directors, Julia von Wild and Kathrin Bahr, the festival will debut some changes not just in content, but in appearance.

Six nights, five days, 300 individual shows, 47 groups, 11 nations, 12 Germany premieres, eight debut performances and 150,000 attendees.

What is a Digital Cinema Package / DCP ?

Digital Cinema Package on a CRU DX 115 carrier

A Digital Cinema Package (abbr. DCP) is a digital filmprint, with a special data format for picture and sound.

Information on prices and procedure of the DCP creation at Digital Cinema Mastering can be found in our pricelist.

The specifications for it have been set by the Digital Cinema Initiatives, a cooperation of 7 big Hollywood studios in the “Digital Cinema System Specifications”. The aim was to set up one standard for digital cinema preventing concurrence of different formats which would have made things a lot more complicated when distributing a film world wide. Another goal was to set up a standard with a high security against piracy. The DCI standard is now widely accepted as the successor of 35 mm film, because its open standard, the absence of any license fee, the high security level and the superior image and sound quality.

Digital Cinema Packages of feature films are mostly delivered via Harddrives, for trailers and ads the distribution via USB flash drives, DVD-ROM or internet download is also possible.

A DCP consists of the media files, a packing list (PKL) and one or more composition playlists (CPL). The information which picture and sound file go together and in which order they sould be played is contained in these composition playlists. Also, if present which subtitles should be shown. So it is possible to store several language versions in one DCP without having to save the redundant information (e.g the picture files) twice, enabling an efficient usage of disk space. Depending on the bitrate a Digital Cinema Package consumes about 1,5 to 2 GB of storage space per minute of duration.

Ein Digital Cinema Package im Datei Browser / Finder

Files contained in a DCP.

The picture information is being stored as JPEG 2000 compressed still images in a 12 bit X’Y’Z’ colour space.

Sound information is stored uncompressed in up to 24bit sampling depth and 48 or 96 KHz sampling rate. File format for both is  .MXF .

Subtitles have to be converted to the Texas Instruments CineCanvas (C) format and are stored as .XML files.