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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:

 

 

 

We are to create the DCPs of “Bati” for the cinematic release

We are creating the DCPs / Digital Cinema Packages (teaser, trailer and main film) of ‘Bati’ for Mare Imbrium for the cinematic release in Fiji in August 2025!

About the film: Bati is a compelling boxing drama set in the heart of Fiji.

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

https://digital-cinema-mastering.com/en/referenzen/bati/
https://bati-movie.com/

“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

Premiere at the Max Ophüls Festival: Mutantin

Premiere with DCP by Digital Cinema Mastering: ‘Mutantin’ by Amor Schumacher and Sonja Ortiz:

Berlin actress Amor Schumacher decides to have a bilateral mastectomy after she is diagnosed with a genetic mutation and at the same time harbours a fervent desire to have children. Her colleague Sonja Ortiz accompanies her on the journey from diagnosis to surgery.

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

https://digital-cinema-mastering.com/en/about-us/recent-projects

https://ffmop.de/film_detail/movie-675602202874c

https://www.filmportal.de/film/mutantin_a7de49c805bc42388fd672611f153889

World premiere at the IFFR: The Shipwrecked Tryptich

World premiere at the IFFR in Rotterdam with DCP by Digital Cinema Mastering: ‘The shipwrecked Tryptich’ by Neuzeit Filmagentur:

Expelled from humanity and yet bound to it – being shipwrecked means existing in this ambivalent space. Filmmaker Deniz Eroglu explores this concept through three independent episodes: a nursing home on New Year’s Eve, a sun-drenched Congolese family home and the medieval German landscape.

The next screening is on 8. February, tickets are still available…

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

https://digital-cinema-mastering.com/en/about-us/recent-projects

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-shipwrecked-triptych

https://neuzeit.tv/schiffbruch/

5.1 Cinema Soundmix finished: “Woanders.Überall”

We were busy and created a sound mix in 5.1 for Werkraum e.V.: “Woanders.Überall” In addition to the DCP / Digital Cinema Package, the film was played out as an H.264 version with stereo sound. We were also allowed to edit the credits. The source material was the sound cut version from Premiere Pro, which was edited and mixed using AAF transfer to Davinci Resolve / Fairlight.

The film is about violence against women and will be shown at various locations in Karlsruhe as part of the Orange Days.

Initiated by the Karlsruhe Women’s Shelter, the play “Woanders.Überall”, developed by four women themselves, has now been filmed.

“The number of people affected by domestic violence in the city of Karlsruhe has remained at a consistently high level for years. In 2022, there were more than 300 police incidents of domestic violence almost every day. In many cases, children are also involved. Almost every third day, the police issue bans from the home to the perpetrators.” (Quote: “Coordination group ‘Overcoming domestic violence’)

With this film project, we want to support specialist advice centers and women’s shelters in their work. The production and distribution of a prevention film on the subject of “violence against women” creates publicity and informs people that “violence against women” affects us all.

Dates and further information:

https://www.werkraum-karlsruhe.org/woanders-uberall-2

Just delivered: DCDM and DCPs: “COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE”

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We were allowed to create the Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) and the Digital Cinema Packages (DCP) of “COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE” for Vika Kirchenbauer for storage at the Bundesarchiv:

COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE

Everything that seems self-evident and normal today arose at some point. COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE explores the artistic field by historicizing it and proposing a different context of creation than that usually considered. Specifically, the essay-performance video looks at the first public exhibitions of contemporary art in London in the mid-18th century and the events and circumstances that led to them. An often-overlooked welfare institution for “abandoned infants” becomes the starting point for the founding of European art institutions in which private-sector and colonial interests intersect with ideas of charity and the pursuit of sophistication. Historical texts are spoken by a cast whose speaking positions differ from those of the authors of the text sources. The work uses performance to repeat with a difference and thus addresses a complex legacy that is passed on to current actors through the institutionalized structures of art.

Further information about the project can be found in the references:

https://digital-cinema-mastering.com/de/referenzen/detail/compassion-and-inconvenience/

https://www.vk0ms.com/compassion_and_inconvenience.html

https://www.instagram.com/vika.kirchenbauer/

DCP delivered: “Enclave”

Enclave DCP Mastering DCDM Erstellung

Just delivered: Digital Cinema Package of “Enclave” for Sein+Hain Film.

To be seen in Cannes market screening.

Enklave

Enclave is a very engaged movie and full of hope! In cinemas soon!

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.

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