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1. Second version of the program Added choice between a compact or extended GUI layout Added full screen preview in real colors Added new syntax elements DCDMPictureResolutionLevels DCPClipTitle DCPBitrate2 DCPVersion Added DCPCueList for manually set reel interruption points Moved a bunch of DCP parameters into the DCDM realm Changed DCDMSize to DCDMResolution Removed EngineCreateFolder from project files and added to program preferences Added clip title field in DCP properties it can be entered separately in the composition title Added adjustable maximum bit rate of color components Added selector for number of DWT resolutions Added subtitle creation in Interop SMPTE experimental and burn in modes 108 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Changed embedded font from Delicious to Bitstream Vera Sans for copyright and licensing reasons Added support to 25 30 50 and 60 fps and relevant stereoscopic versions Fixed access from multiple threads to the font burn in process Added a basic wizard to help novice users in creation of simple projects Changed internal routine to read WAV files instead of using Libav Changed to libFLAC for reading FLAC files instead of using Libav Added email sending at the end of an encoding job Added encoding log saving Added CPU load and disk usage feedback in the GUI Added switch between left and right views in preview for stereoscopy Changed
2. 53 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Video import in Freeware Edition In this case if you need to convert a video clip file into a DCP suggest you to extract all the frames from the video clip as a sequence of PNG images and as a single multichannel WAV file This is what you have to do e Download a compiled version of FFmpeg or Libav for your operating system Generally these programs can be found via Google or starting from the project home pages e Once you have the ffmpeg executable working open a terminal and go to folder where you want to make the conversion step e Create the folders extrpng and extrwav or similar names e Execute the command in order to extract all the frames to the PNG format gt ffmpeg i my clip avi extrpng my clip 506d png e Execute the command in order to extract all the audio channels to a WAV file gt ffmpeg i my clip avi acodec pcm s24le extrwav my clip wav e You now have a sequence of images the frames of your input video clip in the extrpng folder and a single multichannel wave file in the extrwav folder You can use these files as input to DCP Builder Video import in Basic edition In this case if you need to convert a video clip file into a DCP you must explicitly enable FFmpeg support into DCP Builder There are two ways binaries download or source download and compilation have tested the program with ffmpeg git 14d94a1 vers
3. DCPLabel G 85 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCPLocale string Use two or three letter ISO codes for languages and countries as specified 73 These parameters do not affect directly the DCP itself they are used by the GUI to suggest a DCP title following to DC naming convention Ex DCPLocaleAudio EN DCPLocaleSubtitles DCPLocaleNarrative DCPLocaleTerritory DCPStandard string DCP compatibility standard Interop or SMPTE Ex DCPStandard smpte Names of the DCP files string The XML and MXF files can be automatically named e The term U expands to the UUID of the relevant asset e The term R expands to a new random UUID e C language printf format parameters can be used for automatic numbering of MXF reels and XML files e Asset map and volume index must follow the guidelines dictated by the standards Ex in this case 03d expands to 000 001 002 and so on at every new reel DCPAssetMapName DCPVolumeIndexName DCPCompositionPlaylistName DCPPackingListName ASSETMAP xml VOLINDEX xml epi xmi pkl xml videoreel 03d mxf audioreel 03d mxf textreel 03d mxf DCPPictureReelName DCPAudioReelName DCPTextReelName uo ny wg wg Ww W Ex in this case U expands to something like 7e2b76ac 43ff 406c 9e74 ee34e04d3f79 which is that asset s UUID and it is different at every new reel 73 http www digitalcinemanamingconvention com 86 DCP Builder 0 3
4. 96 ele elle 97 DUD SEET 97 ET in oia e aa ana 97 EDESA a lie 98 EMV a AA A A E da een a 99 LIDO NG EE 99 LIBASDMD es sess PEDO a sada sun sacks E AE EATER EEEO E AE TA EA lade vehecudveesedere gst 99 ES 99 LIDT al EE 99 TEE ai AER ege SAS EES E 99 Up ico 99 OPCS PREG EE 100 SOE CI DMC I A 100 ENEE 100 Bitstream Vera Sans ne esa Vile e EERSTEN 100 EI EN AM 102 Bibliography T 104 Mo c 106 POPC a 106 Auxiliary libraries software and other Uuings nennen 107 CRANGCN OG EE 109 Document E UN 111 vi DCP Builder 0 3 Introduction Introduction Quick start for DCP Builder DCP Builder is a natively multiplatform software that can be used to create Digital Cinema Packages DCPs which can be thus played on Digital Cinema projectors e f you are an expert and just need a quick start for creating a DCP using DCP Builder skip to the section How to build a DCP e f you want to understand well the operation of the program you need to read first the Graphical User Interface section and then the Project file sy
5. EngineTraceFileName trace txt EngineTraceContents list of strings The type of encoding trace May contain a combination of none psnr bitrate and fps Ex EngineTraceContents psnr bitrate fps EngineLogFileName string The file name of a text file that will contain the encoding log Ex 88 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface EngineLogFileName log txt EngineLog list of strings The type of encoding log May contain a combination of none all Ex EngineLog all 89 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Registration By default all the DCPs done with DCP Builder are watermarked with the name of the program in every frame sort of paranoid know see later Why ask for your machine fingerprint In order to remove this watermark you need to obtain a valid registration code The program is able to generate a machine fingerprint that uniquely identifies your machine based on certain HW characteristics The machine fingerprint and the registration code are paired in such a way that if correct the watermark is disabled The fingerprint itself is an alphanumeric code composed by ten groups of four capital letters in the range 0 9 and A F each group separated by a dash sign Sometimes it can happen that your fingerprint changes This is mostly due to slight changes in the hardware configuration of your PC For example activating deactivating a wireless card inserting removing a USB
6. configure prefix inst enable nonfree enable gpl disable devices disable doc disable ffplay disable ffserver enable w32threads enable memalign hack disable debug enable static disable shared At this point you can issue the compilation commands this can take a long time so please be patient and wait gt make clean amp make lines of compilation results gt make install Now if no compilation errors appeared check inside the inst folder of FFmpeg directory in the bin subfolder there will be all the required programs ffmpeg and ffprobe gt Is inst bin ffmpeg ffprobe You can now indicate this folder in program preferences GNU Linux 56 Download the FFmpeg release tarball e g ffmpeg git 14d94a1 tar bz2 from its download page DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Open the compressed archive and extract its contents to a folder e g tmp ffmpeg git 14d94a1 gt cd tmp gt tar zxvf ffmpeg git 14d94al tar bz2 Install the required compilation tools For instance under Ubuntu gt sudo apt get update amp sudo apt get install build essential yasm zliblg dev C 2 ange to the folder where you extracted the FFmpeg archive gt cd tmp ffmpeg git 14d94al Create directories build and opt ffmpeg and change folder to build gt mkdir build opt ffmpeg cd build Now
7. DCP Builder 0 3 User s Guide http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp_ builder hitp www dcpbuilder com Copyright O 2009 2012 Giuseppe Baruffa All Rights Reserved How to contact Websites http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp_ builder http www dcpbuilder com Technical support Email baruffa diei unipg it info dcpbuilder com Forum http dsplab diei unipg it forums projects dcp_ builder Address Digital Signal Processing Laboratory DSPLab Department of Electronic and Information Engineering DIEI University of Perugia Via G Duranti 93 1 06125 Perugia Italy THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE First print February 3 2012 Copyright 2009 2012 Giuseppe Baruffa All Rights Reserved Contents
8. Figure 44 The About window Status bar The status bar shows a summary of the menu being selected and the current processing status fig DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface MultiMediaLib v 0 1 4 64 bit August 1 2010 for Windows Compiled 11 16 15 Jan 30 2012 C 2009 2010 Giuseppe Baruffa DSPLab University of Perugia Supports the following external or internal libraries zlib v 1 2 3 C 1995 2004 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler bzip2 v 1 0 5 10 Dec 2007 C 1996 2002 Julian R Seward All rights res OpenJPEG v 14 0 MMLib C 2002 2007 Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory Universite catholique de Louvain UCL Belgium FFmpeg plugin not enabled LIBTIFF Version 3 9 2 Copyright c 1988 1996 Sam Leffler Copyright c 1991 1996 Silicon Graphics Inc libpng version 1 4 0 January 3 2010 Copyright c 1998 2010 Glenn Randers Pehrson FreeType v 2 3 11 C 2003 2006 2007 The FreeType Development Team www freetype org Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright c 2003 by Bitstream Inc All Rights Reserved Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream Inc LibOGG 1 14 C Copyright 1994 2007 by the Xiph Org Foundation http www xiph org libFLAC 1 2 1 Free Lossless Audio Codec library Copyright C 2000 2007 Josh Coalson AS DCP v 1 8 44 Copyright c 2003 2011 John Hurst All rights reserved OpenCinemaTools v 1 1 2 Copyright c 2008 TELE UCL Benoit
9. Graphical User Interface ASSETMAP VOLINDEX U cpl xml U pkl xml SU picture mxf U sound mxf subtitle mxf fone ber DCPAssetMapName DCPVolumeIndexName DCPCompositionPlaylistName DCPPackingListName DCPPictureReelName DCPAudioReelName DCPTextReelName DCPFontName Cryptography section EXPERIMENTAL DON T USE CryptoEncrypt boolean Encrypt picture sound and text only SMPTE reels using recommended AES 128 cypher in CBC mode The resulting DCP can only be played on authorized servers and in authorized time slots via a KDM Ex CryptoEncrypt yes Compression engine section EngineNumberOfThreads integer Number of concurrent threads to use Adapted to CPU number 0 Ex EngineNumberOfThreads 1 EnginePictureResize string Video resizing method From worst to best copy nearest bilinear lanczos bicubic bspline Ex EnginePictureResize bspline 87 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface EngineSoundResample string Audio resampling method From worst to best copy nearest linear sinc Ex EngineSoundResample sinc EngineResume string The program will try to resume encoding from where it left none dcdm or dcp Note DCDM RESUME METHOD ONLY TAKES J2K FILES 1 E DCDM NOTE DCP RESUME METHOD DOES NOT WORK Ex EngineResume none EngineTraceFileName string The file name of a text file that will contain the encoding trace Ex
10. Windows Linux GPL Mac OS X Qube QubeMaster Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Windows Proprietary Dolby SCC200030 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Linux Proprietary Cinecert Wailua Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Mac OS X Linux Proprietary QuVIS Wraptor Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K No MacOS X Proprietary 26 http code google com p opencinematools 27 http www opencubetech com page81 OpenCubeDCP 28 http code google com p opendcp 29 http www qubecinema com qubemaster htm 30 http www dolby com professional products cinema digital cinema scc2000 html 31 http www cinecert com products 32 http www quvis com Action Products amp SubAction wraptor DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Setup Supported platforms DCP Builder is natively multiplatform it has been written in C and C uses the wxWidgets GUI library and it can be ported to multiple OS and CPU architectures The currently supported platforms are e Microsoft Windows 32 and 64 bit XP Vista 7 e MacOS X Intel 32 and 64 bit Leopard Snow Leopard and following versions e GNU Linux 32 and 64 bit Ubuntu openSUSE and possibly other compatible distributions 34 e FreeBSD experimental In the following if not differently specified we will always refer to the Windows version for screenshots and menus Linux and Mac OS X versions follow exactly the same GUI paradigm though with minor differences to
11. libpng version 1 2 15beta5 December 8 2006 header Copyright c 1998 2010 Glenn Randers Pehrson FreeType v 2 35 C 2003 2006 2007 The FreeType Development Team www freetype org Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright c 2003 by Bitstream Inc All Rights Reserved Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream Inc AS DCP v 1 8 44 Copyright c 2003 2011 John Hurst All rights reserved OpenCinemaTools v 1 1 2 Copyright c 2008 TELE UCL Benoit Macq Marc Vandenbosch MVA OpenSSL 0 9 8g 19 Oct 2007 Copyright c 1998 2003 The OpenSSL Project All rights reserved Expat 2 0 1 Copyright c 1998 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper Copyright c 2001 2006 Expat maintainers CIE tables Copyright c 1995 2010 Color and Vision Research Labs RGB spaces Copyright c 2001 2010 Bruce J Lindbloom All Rights Reserved The SGI Image File Format Draft version 0 97 Paul Haeberli paul sgi com Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Simplified TARGA library Copyright c 2005 Michael L Gleicher OpenDPX v0 5 0 SMPTE V2 0 Copyright c 2009 Patrick A Palmer All rights reserved NetSurfs libnsbmp v 0 0 2 Copyright 2006 Richard Wilson lt richard wilson netsurf browser org gt Copyright 2008 Sean Fox lt dyntryx gmail com gt wxWidgets 2 9 Copyright C 1997 Julian Smart Markus Holzem DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface wxMathplot 0 1 2 Copyright c David Schal
12. Insert your Mac OS X operating system DVD in the tray and look into the Optional installs folder Then double click on Xcode mpkg and follow the installation instructions Change to the folder where you extracted the FFmpeg archive gt cd tmp ffmpeg git 14d94al Create directories build and opt ffmpeg and change folder to build gt mkdir build opt ffmpeg cd build Now you need to configure FFmpeg Since you are compiling by yourself and experimenting for personal use you can enable almost anything When you have tested this you have to recompile according to patent restrictions issued in your country Thus issue the configure command and let it run for some minutes gt configure prefix opt ffmpeg enable nonfree enable gpl disable devices disable doc disable ffplay disable ffserver enable w32threads enable memalign hack disable debug enable static disable shared disable yasm At this point you can issue the compilation commands this can take a long time so please be patient and wait gt make clean amp make DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface lines of compilation results gt sudo make install e Now if no compilation errors appeared check inside the opt ffmpeg folder in the bin subfolder there will be all the required programs ffmpeg and ffprobe gt Is opt ffmpeg bin ffmpeg ffprobe e Y
13. Kang Computational colour technology SPIE Press Bellingham WA USA 2006 Al Bovik editor Handbook of image and video processing Academic Press 2000 David Taubman Michael Marcellin JPEG2000 Image Compression Fundamentals Standards and Practice The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004 Tinku Acharya Ping Sing Tsai JPEG2000 standard for image compression concepts algorithms and VLSI architectures John Wiley amp Sons Inc Hoboken NJ USA 2005 James H Kasner Bandwidth Compression BWC Guide for JPEG 2000 Visually Lossless and Numerically Lossless Compression of Imagery Data Working Draft 1 2 Eastman Kodak Company January 22 2004 Xavier Delaunay EBCOT coding passes explained on a detailed example Online Available http d xav free fr ebcot EBCOT example pdf Gaetano Impoco JPEG2000 A Short Tutorial April 1 5 2004 Online Available http www dmi unict it impoco files tutorial JPEG2000 pdf Jin Li Image Compression the Mathematics of JPEG 2000 Microsoft Research Communication Collaboration and Signal Processing 2002 Online Available http research microsoft com en us um people jinl paper_2002 msri_jpeg pdf Digital Cinema System Specification Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC Std V1 1 2007 Online Available http www dcimovies com Stereoscopic Digital Cinema Addendum Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC S
14. wen pcom pcp Engine Tee Log RESET START PAUSE STOP HALT Welcome MXF 4 7 Figure 9 The main panel with the LCD and the operating buttons LCD section The LCD shows some basic information that keeps you up to date with the current and actual processing 16 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Time code in HH MM SS FF format represents the current advancement status of the DCP fig 10 Figure 10 Time code Elapsed time E in HH MM SS format shows the elapsed time since encoding began fig 11 top Total time T in HH MM SS format shows the expected total time for the encoding fig 11 middle Remaining time R in HH MM SS format shows the expected remaining time for the encoding to finish fig 11 bottom Figure 11 Elapsed E total T and remaining R processing time Reel number in CURRENT TOTAL format shows the current reel being worked on and the total number of reels that will be done fig 12 Figure 12 Current and total number of reels Frame rate given in FPS is a direct indicator of the speed of your CPU in fulfilling the encoding task fig 13 top left Bit rate given in Mbps shows how much your current frame is actually being compressed fig 13 top right PSNR quality given in dB shows how much your current frame is being corrupted from compression artifacts fig 13 bottom 17 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interfac
15. DCP panel The movie is stored in a folder that you can enter or select in the DCP text field accepts drag and drop In the Package amp files section the names of MXF reels and XML files are given whereas in the Composition properties section you can fill all the metadata of your DCP In some cases a predefined list presents some possible choices which nonetheless can be overridden with custom values There are two large buttons Suggest that help you to fill automatically some fields In Package amp file names section pressing several times the suggest button will give you different naming schemes for the DCP files Just accept one of them or if you are an expert override them to suit your needs see manual section Names of the DCP files string for a more detailed explanation In the Composition properties section title and annotation are filled according to the commonly used digital cinema naming convention 9 Engine panel The engine panel fig 31 allows the user to select some processing parameters to use during transcoding 46 http www digitalcinemanamingconvention com 34 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface For example Resume can be used to start encoding from a partially done DCP if you dump J2Ks the program reads them and encoding is faster The Resize method is used to adapt original video and audio to the DCP ones e Picture complexity but accuracy grows as you select copy nearest
16. INTO UCI EE 1 Quick start tor DCP Builder a 1 Kette Eege 1 DECR CIGANO A eg 2 DCP delivery methoden 2 Main characteristics of DCP Bulder nara cnn enne rra 2 Iz 9 APPO 3 Compatibility and feste AAA 4 Other similar programs ocoioiciocinioniccininnninc cee teat tees ceed cane teas cee caged eaaes essa aeeeaaeeeeeaaeesaaeseeeseaeeeaaees 5 SEUD WEE 8 Supported Pd EE 8 FREQUIFEMONNS ea 10 ele Vue Bee ue DE 10 A O 11 Microsoft WINDOWS ascii 11 Appl MacOSX EE 12 ENTE B 12 aec aa 14 Microsoft WINDOWS P 14 Apple MacOS X EE 14 GNU LINUX d eesti cites a 14 Graphical User Interface ii necne kn ii A dmn c 15 Main panel eS 16 ECO 16 ee EE 20 input panel KEE 20 VIGGO EE 21 AUTO CHS uM bassinet Mas ee sel anes el eects he ed eee sd cede dae neta 23 SEET 23 Eeer 23 DCOM Eon 25 Gre ito eod ME EE M 28 DCP Dane Mr Pr 33 Engine panel RE 35 e asda suena oxdudens a a angadedensavaraesssedee nana tude lass duce dua saeavacxasandgenancated 37 LOG pane TEE 38 Menu bal EE 39 INIT M E E a 39 el EE 41 VBW MENU A tada 46 A O 48 A 50 ig c E E H 52 Fowto pulda DOP ems 52 How to encode video clips oooocccnnnncccoc
17. Macq Marc Vandenbosch MVA OpenSSL 0 9 81 5 Nov 2009 Copyright c 1998 2003 The OpenSSL Project All rights reserved Expat 2 0 1 Copyright c 1998 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper Copyright c 2001 2006 Expat maintainers A C program for MT19937 Copyright C 1997 2002 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura Copyright C 2005 Mutsuo Saito All rights reserved CIE tables Copyright c 1995 2010 Color and Vision Research Labs RGB spaces Copyright c 2001 2010 Bruce J Lindbloom All Rights Reserved The SGI Image File Format Draft version 0 97 Paul Haeberli paul sgi com Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Simplified TARGA library Copyright c 2005 Michael L Gleicher OpenDPX v0 5 0 SMPTE V2 0 Copyright c 2009 Patrick A Palmer All rights reserved NetSurf s libnsbmp v 0 0 2 Copyright 2006 Richard Wilson lt richard wilson netsurf browser org gt Copyright 2008 Sean Fox dyntryxG gmail com Base64 coder Copyright c 2001 Bob Trower Trantor Standard Systems Inc Compiled with Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE2 supported in this CPU Cx Figure 45 The Credits window 46 49 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Welcome MXF 0 4 Figure 46 The status bar 50 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface How To s How to build a DCP Well it s time for you to create a DCP You have several options such
18. Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Proprietary Dietrich Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Linux Fraunhofer IIS easyDCP Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Mac Proprietary Creator 3 OS X MagnaMana FinalDCP Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Windows Mac Proprietary OS X Extron J2KENC 5 14 http www cinecert com asdcplib 15 http www doremicinema com cineasset html 16 https github com wolfgangw digital cinema tools wiki Cinemaslides 17 http www dvs de products video systems clipster html 18 http cinema terminal entry de 19 http www prismdcp com 20 http www inition co uk inition dispatcher php action get amp model products amp URL product stereovis dcppro 21 http www hs rm de ing ueber uns personen personen im fb ing prof dr ing wolfgang ruppel mastering workflow index html 22 https github com wolfgangw dietrich wiki 23 http www iis fraunhofer de EN bf bv cinema dcpcreation jsp 24 http www magnamana com products finaldcp 25 http www extron com product product aspx id j2kenc8s 5 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Name JPEG XYZ MXF XML Frame 3D OS License 2000 size opencinematools 8 Yes No Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Mac BSD OS X Linux OpenCubeDCP Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Linux Proprietary OpenDCP Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes
19. as being guided by the easy wizard Select File New project gt Simple wizard or choosing between a number of predefined setups Select File New project gt 2K 24 fps Interop or similar names Differently if you prefer a completely manual configuration follow these steps Start the program and select File New project gt Empty project Add a video clip in the Input panel video section Select the proper origin Colorspace o BT 709 is acceptable for HD video footage shot with professional camcorders sRGB may be good for synthetic contents such as cartoons or computer generated scenery e g Blender o Write down a Gamma value only if you want to use one that is different from the selected colorspace one otherwise let the space blank If the video clip has no audio and you want no sound the created DCP will have a stereophonic silence Otherwise if the video clip has also audio this will be used If you want to add a different multichannel audio then add the file in the input panel audio sections If you have a group of monophonic files one per channel add them Remember to select the proper audio channel configuration indeed this is automatically inferred by the added files but this selector is required for improved compatibility 54 If the clip consists of a series of images in a folder you have to select the proper frame rate before adding the clip 51 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e If yo
20. be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose including commercial applications and to alter it and redistribute it freely subject to the following restrictions 1 The origin of this software must not be misrepresented you must not claim that you wrote the original software If you use this software in a product an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required 2 Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such and must not be misrepresented as being the original software 3 This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution Jean loup Gailly Mark Adler Libbzip2 This program bzip2 the associated library libbzip2 and all documentation are copyright C 1996 2007 Julian R Seward All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 The origin of this software must not be misrepresented you must not claim that you wrote the original software If you use this software in a product an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required 96 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 3 Alt
21. bilinear lanczos bicubic or bspline e Sound complexity but accuracy grows as you select copy nearest linear or sinc The copy option should be selected only when you are sure that the origin format is exactly in the proportion and resolution required by your DCP project EE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Main met ocom Resume DCP trace From None V File name dcpiDCI checksitrace bd Y PSNR dB V Bit rate bit s V Frames per second fps Resize method loni ogging Picture coy gt File name dcp DCI_checks log bt Parallelization 7 Log to file Auto select Threads 6 Welcome Figure 31 The engine panel Differently from all other controls which are disabled during DCP creation the Threads spin button remains active and allows you to dynamically choose the number of concurrent threads dedicated to compression For instance when you need more responsiveness for other tasks done in the encoding PC you can decrease this value temporarily and increase it back when you are done The number of threads is limited as follows 47 At the current development stage the only DCDM resume type happens from the J2K folder 48 In this case the term sinc has nothing to do with synchronization 35 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e there is a maximum of virtualCPUs 1 possible threads or 2 e the maximum limit for threads is 24 49 It
22. binaries supported must be downloaded and installed optionally and by separately You are in charge of satisfying and FFmpeg respecting all royalty related issues when using licensed codecs in FFmpeg Table 5 Supported audio formats Format Library used for import Notes FLAC libFLAC WAV Internal 8 16 and 24 bit PCM format only All audio FFmpeg plugin Due to patenting and licensing reasons in order to codecs have extended audio support FFmpeg binaries can be supported downloaded and installed optionally and separately You by are in charge of satisfying and respecting all royalty FFmpeg related issues when using licensed codecs in FFmpeg 37 http www netsurf browser org projects libnsbmp 38 SMPTE DPX v2 Image Format reader writer http code google com p dpx 39 http www libpng orqg 40 http www cs wisc edu graphics Gallery LibTarga http www libtiff org 42 http www ffmpeg org 4 http www ffmpeg org legal html read section Patent Mini FAQ 24 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Table 6 Supported subtitle formats Format Library used for import Notes SRT Internal ASCII encoding only no UNICODE First character in file must be spot number 1 DCDM panel The DCDM panel fig 22 allows the user to select the picture and sound properties of the DCP The frame rate of video and sampling rate of audio can be decided in t
23. in the 9 transformation coefficients in the proper control 39 Just to make an example if C is your origin color in the source RGB space then it will be transformed into the destination XYZ colorspace as color C according to the following relationship ft q fi t 43 4 Cz cj TC t ty ty e bi br te le 36 The coefficients must not be scaled to take into account the DC headroom specifications the program will do it automatically Just provide the direct transformation coefficients from your own origin colorspace to destination XYZ 22 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface and the t coefficients are those entered in the GUI control The Gamma field must be left empty just use with care when you want to force a gamma different from the default colorspace one Audio clips Enter audio clips by right clicking on the list box and selecting the files you want to include in your project Similarly files can be also removed from the lists Use and keys to raise up lower down a file in the list e If the video clip has an audio content too this will be used for DCP audio Else a stereophonic silence track is included e Ifan auxiliary multichannel audio content is specified that will be used e f many auxiliary monophonic audio channels are added they will be used Eventually choose the proper channel layout configuration up to 16 channels are supported A particular care must be made to match as best as pos
24. mode there is only one window see previous figures which you can manage via multiple tabs In expanded mode fig 8 there are many windows which can be positioned on the desktop as preferred if you have two monitors you could use one of them to see a real color full screen preview of the encoding results ZE DCP Builder Basic Edition 03 sintel_moviedK Een Fie Edit View Help EE Trace sintelmovieik_ 00 II 007 08 RESET START PAUSE STOP HALT zd Welcome MF 58 Figure 8 DCP Builder running in expanded mode In both cases a number of panels are each one dedicated to a particular task or parameters set They are e Main panel hosting the LCD display and the operating buttons 15 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e Input panel for the selection of input audio image clips and their relevant parameters e DCDM panel to specify the format of the DCP e DCP panel to set the compression parameters and DCP metadata e Engine panel to adjust compression settings e Trace panel hosting a timed log of encoding quality e Log panel hosting a timed log of actions and responses Main panel The main panel fig 9 is composed by two sections the LCD section and the buttons section G DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Man
25. respect OS interface minimize close buttons position menu position etc 33 http www wxwidgets org 34 Ubuntu Hardy Heron 32 bit and higher Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 64 bit and higher openSUSE 11 4 32 bit and higher openSUSE 12 1 64 bit and higher DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface EE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Main j input DCDM DCP Engine Trace Log RESET START PAUSE STOP HALT Welcome MXF 4 7 Figure 1 DCP Builder with Aero interface running on Windows 7 DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 artbeats File Edit Help Main Input DCDM DCP Engine Trace Log PAUSE STOP HALT VEN lana pr Welcome wxr 12 5 Figure 2 DCP Builder with GTK2 interface running on Ubuntu Linux DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 600 DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 serenity f Main Input DCDM DCP Engine Trace Log PAUSE STOP HAUT Welcome MXF 7 5 Figure 3 DCP Builder with Quartz interface running on Mac OS X Leopard Requirements e 1 GHz CPU or higher 2 GHz multi core CPU is preferred e 1 GB RAM or higher 2 GB is preferred e 500 GB free disk space available or higher for clips of duration of 2 hours How to download You can download DCP Builder only from the following websites the DCPBUILDER COM domain is generally updated less often http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp builder http
26. the author for possible solutions If you are strongly interested in faster DCP encoding and can fund development studies just try to ask 7 When I start the program all commands seem to be in a frozen state That is normal You just need to start a new project empty prebuilt or simple wizard and then it will get defrost 92 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 8 The program starts encoding and after a variable amount of time it crashes Are you running a 32 bit OS Try to lower the number of threads e g 2 Unfortunately the OpenJPEG compression engine requires a lot of memory A 32 bit OS or 32 bit subsystems under a 64 bit OS can only allocate a maximum amount of 2 GB of RAM to ALL its 32 bit applications From my experience close any other program you have open browsers are especially memory eager and avoid exceeding 1 2 GBytes of used memory for the tool 9 4K encoding is very slow and crashes the program Crashing happens generally when too much memory is being requested by the application and you are running under a 32 bit OS Try to set the number of threads to 1 before starting and when encoding increase it up to an acceptable limit Differently run a 64 bit native version of the program this is different from running a 32 bit version on a 64 bit OS 10 What happens when input clip and DCP frame rates are different Generally speaking nothing bad if they are not too different The
27. the total picture part of the DCDM Ex DCDMPictureBitrate 239000000 DCDMBitrate2 float Maximum bit rate in bit s of the per component picture part of the DCDM Ex DCDMPictureBitrate2 185000000 DCDMBypass string The type of bypass to apply on the DCDM a combination of gamma headroom Ex DCDMBypass gamma 83 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCP section DCPPath string Folder path where the DCP files are stored It will be created if it does not exist Ex DCPPath dcp DCI checks DCPType string Type of movie one of feature trailer test teaser rating advertisement short transitional psa policy Ex DCPType test DCPVersion integer Numeral of the version of the DCP created Ex DCPVersion DCPClipTitle string Title of the clip contained in the DCP Ex DCPClipTitle Big Buck Bunny DCPTitle string Title of the DCP Ex DCPTitle BBB SHR C EN XX INT G 51 EN 2K DSPL 20110214 UPG OV 84 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCPAnnotation string Annotation text of the DCP Ex DCPAnnotation BBB SHR C EN XX INT G 51 EN 2K DSPL 20110214 UPG OV DCPlIssuer string Issuer text of the DCP Ex DCPIssuer DSPLab DCPFacility string Facility text of the DCP Ex DCPFacility UPG DCPAgency string Rating agency text of the DCP Ex DCPAgency Unipg DCPLabel string Rating label of the DCP Ex
28. towards the top of a two bytes 16 bits word 66 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface T A Figure 50 The frame transformed in XYZ colorspace and rendered in RGB colorspace 67 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface How JPEG 2000 works This section wants to be a concise but technically correct review of how JPEG 2000 standard works to compress digital cinema images Lossy coding A first part of the standard is involved into achieving a first compression target by doing lossy operations i e a sequence of steps that cannot be exactly inverted during decompression If done judiciously however this has no visual impact on the final image quality Pixel value normalization Every sample x in every component is normalized in a way to be represented in the 0 5 0 5 amplitude interval With 12 bits this means that a normalized sample Xorm is given by E E 4096 Irreversible Color Transform ICT Another color transform is applied in order to better decorrelate color components and achieve improved compression efficiency This color transform is practically equivalent to the well known RGB YCbCr color transform only that it is applied to an XYZ source the destination colorspace is generally denoted as YCxCz A representation in the sRGB colorspace of the transformed picture is shown in figure 51 68 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Figure 51 The frame trans
29. 0 48 50 and 60 frames per second and 4096x2160 for 4K DC 24 25 and 30 frames per second Common formats are o Hat 1998x1080 or 3996x2160 1 85 1 aspect ratio o Scope 2048x858 or 4096x1716 2 39 1 aspect ratio e 12 bits per pixel precision 36 bits total e XYZ colorspace e Maximum bit rate is 250 Mbps 1 3 MBytes per frame at 24 fps Sound MXF files Sound contents are stored in reels too corresponding to picture reels in number and duration In case of multilingual features separate reels are required to convey different languages Each file contains linear PCM essence e Sampling rate is 48 000 or 96 000 samples per second e Sample precision of 24 bits e Linear mapping no companding 6 The frame rates of 25 30 50 and 60 fps have been added later and may not yet be supported on all playback equipment 64 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e Up to 16 independent channels XML files Asset Map file List of all files included in the DCP in XML format Composition Playlist file The presentation order is saved in XML format in this file each picture and sound reel is identified by its UUID Packing List file All files in the composition are hashed and their hash is stored here in XML format This file is generally used during ingestion in DC server to verify if data have been corrupted or tampered in some way Volume Index file A single DCP may be stored in more than one medium e
30. 00 00 10 s Figure 21 Stereoscopic setup in input clip panel You cannot enter more than two files this program does not do nonlinear editing operations such as cut and paste of video clips You must have your final clip already prepared Adjust the Frame rate Downsample and Repeat values when encoding from a list of sequentially numbered images Thus BEFORE entering the sequence of images clip in the video input panel e select the proper frame rate a sequence of images has generally no means to convey frame rate information e choose how many images you want to take out of every group of n generally this is set to 1 e choose how many times you want to cyclically repeat that sequence generally this is set to 1 For instance you may just enter one single image and virtually replicate this one in order to create a whole static sequence NOTE TO ENCODE FASTER A DCP WITH STATIC IMAGES SELECT A FOLDER FOR DCDM J2K STORAGE AND SELECT RESUME FROM DCDM IN THE ENGINE PANEL IN THIS CASE YOUR SEQUENCE WILL UNDERGO JUST ONE J2K TRANSFORM SEQUENCE AND WILL DO A SIMPLE COPY AFTERWARDS Moreover remember to select the proper Colorspace for your input video clip else color tones could appear very different from wanted ones when projecting Generally BT 709 or sRGB are fine for HD contents If you are an expert you can choose your particular colorspace transformation coefficients by setting a custom colorspace and filling
31. 2 This software library adopts the MIT license http opensource org licenses mit license php OpenDPX This software library adopts the new BSD license http Awww opensource org licenses bsd license php 98 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface OpenJPEG This software library adopts the new BSD license http www opensource org licenses bsd license php SQLCipher Copyright c 2010 Zetetic LLC All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution Neither the name of the ZETETIC LLC nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ZETETIC LLC AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL ZETETIC LLC BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT L
32. 25 2007 SMPTE Standard Digital Cinema Distribution Master Subtitle SMPTE 428 7 2007 April 12 2007 SMPTE Standard D Cinema Distribution Master Audio Characteristics SMPTE 428 2 2006 August 16t 2006 SMPTE Standard D Cinema Distribution Master Image Characteristics SMPTE 428 1 2006 September 29 2006 Wikimedia Foundation Inc Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Updated 10 May 2011 18 00 UTC Encyclopedia on line Available from http en wikipedia org Internet Retrieved 10 May 2011 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Credits People The main author of the program is Giuseppe Baruffa assistant professor at the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Perugia and member of the Digital Signal Processing laboratory It took several time to write the base library the command line tool and the graphical interface Here the acknowledgements come First of all Pietro Clarici theatre owner of Supercinema and Politeama Clarici Foligno without whom could have not tested and projected the GBytes of data produced by this software Then Wolfgang Woehl Filmmuseum Munich 9 who suggested some neat improvements on the interface and on sane default behavior Knut Erik Evensen has tested the Mac OS X port and helped to fill the bundle application with all correct shared libraries He also tested the QuickTime version with Apple Prores clips Antonin Desc
33. IMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE XMLSec This software library adopts the MIT license http opensource org licenses mit license php Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright c 2003 by Bitstream Inc All Rights Reserved Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream Inc 99 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of the fonts accompanying this license Fonts and associated documentation files the Font Software to reproduce and distribute the Font Software including without limitation the rights to use copy merge publish distribute and or sell copies of the Font Software and to permit persons to whom the Font Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software typefaces The Font Software may be modified altered or added to and in particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts only if the fon
34. TIO MAY RENDER THE DCP UNPLAYABLE ON CERTAIN SERVERS DCDMPictureBoxing string Boxing type of DCDM pillarbox letterbox or stretch NOTE BOXING MAY NOT APPEAR DUE TO RELATIVE SIZES Ex DCDMPictureBoxing letterbox DCDMSubtitleMethod string Subtitles are added in several ways none XML text XML PNG Burn in The support of subtitles is not guaranteed please check the log for further details Ex DCDMSubtitleMethod XML text DCDMJ2KPicturePath string Folder path where JPEG 2000 codestreams are stored optionally Ex DCDMJ2KPicturePath dcp dcdm j2k DCDMNumberOfFrames integer Define the number of frames to store in the DCP Set to O for the complete length of the input clip Ex DCDMNumberOfFrames 0 82 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCDMFramesPerReel integer Limit of frames to assign to each single reel 1550 is a maximum of 2GB good for FAT32 disks A number of 0 manual mode means that the cue list will be used In case the cue list is empty only one reel will be created Ex DCDMFramesPerReel 10 DCDMCueList string The cue points are used to split the DCP in reels O is not a valid cue point Points can be expressed as a space tab comma separated list of frame numbers This list is used only if DCDMFramesPerReel is set to manual 0 Ex DCDMCueList 2560 15231 18590 DCDMPictureBitrate float Maximum bit rate in bit s of
35. User Interface 1080 1080 Figure 28 Rendering of 4 3 SDTV onto Flat in pillarbox top and letterbox bottom modes Red border outlines effective projection screen size 32 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 1080 1080 1998 Figure 29 Rendering of 16 9 HDTV onto Flat in pillarbox top and letterbox bottom modes Red border outlines effective projection screen size DCP panel The DCP panel fig 30 allows the user to select the format and metadata of the DCP 33 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface E DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Main Input DCDM H Engine Package El file names Folder Standard SMPTE X DCH dcp DCI_checks Asset Map ASSETMAP xml Composition properties Composition cpl xml Type Short subject v Version number 1 Packing List pkl xml Rating agency http www beniculturali gov it Volume Index VOLINDEX xml Rating label AA Picture reel videoreel 03d mx Issuer UPG Facility DSPLab Sound reel audioreel 03d m gt Clip title Big Buck Bunny Subtitle reel textreel 03d mxf Audio English v Subtitles Absent Language Font file font 03d ttf Narrative Absent v Territory International Annotation BIG BUCK BUNNY_SHR 1_C_EN XX_INT AA_51_2K_UPG_20120130_DSPL_OV Title BIG BUCK BUNNY SHR 1 C EN XX INT AA 51 2K UPG 20120130 DSPL OV Suggest empty fields title and annotation Welcome Figure 30 The
36. XYZ MXF XML Frame 3D OS License 2000 size 2DCP GUI Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K Yes Windows Freeware CineCert AS DCP File No No Yes No 2K 4K Yes Windows Mac BSD like 4 http www doremicinema com dcp html 5 http www dolby com DocLibProductLanding aspx taxid 158 http www dolby com professional products cinema digital cinema dss200 html 7 http www doremicinema com PDF ShowIMB pdf 8 http www xdcinema com 2 http www dcinema fraunhofer de en veranstaltungen ibc player jsp 10 http digitall net au products dcp player html 11 http www 3dtv at Movies Index_en aspx 12 http en wikipedia org wiki Digital Cinema Package 13 http www mik digital de programme DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Name JPEG XYZ MXF XML Frame 3D OS License 2000 size Access Library OS X Linux Doremi CineAsset Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Windows Mac Proprietary OS X Cinemaslides Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K No DVS Clipster Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Windows Proprietary DCPC Digital Cinema Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Package Creator Prism DCP Encoder Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Proprietary Yade DCP Encoder Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K 4K Yes Windows Linux Proprietary Inition DCP Pro 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2K Yes Windows Proprietary DCP Tool Yes Yes Yes
37. a bmp file D DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Welcome MXF 14 8 Figure 33 The trace panel showing PSNR top and bitrate bottom encoding history Log panel The logging panel fig 34 allows the user to inspect information emitted during the encoding process 52 During JPEG 2000 compression an Irreversible Color Transform ICT is applied to the XYZ picture resulting in a different colorspace YCxCz 38 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny K 7 File Edit Help Main ben pcom Engine Trace 17 03 59 Starting up 17 03 59 File C Users Giuseppe Progetti Multimedia mmlib trunk flyby avi could not be opened 17 03 59 Loaded ttt dcb 17 03 59 MultiMediaLib v 0 1 4 64 bit August 1 2010 for Windows Compiled 11 16 15 Jan 30 2012 C 2009 2010 Giuseppe Baruffa DSPLab University of Perugia Supports the following external or internal libraries zlib v 1 2 3 C 1995 2004 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler bzip2 v 1 0 5 10 Dec 2007 C 1996 2002 Julian R Seward All rights res OpenJPEG v 1 4 0 MMLib C 2002 2007 Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory Universite catholique de Louvain UCL Belgium FFmpeg plugin not enabled LIBTIFF Version 3 9 2 Copyright c 1988 1996 Sam Leffler Copyright c 1991 1996 Silicon Graphics Inc l
38. abbreviations used in this document Acronym Meaning 2K 2048x1080 screen resolution 4K 4096x2160 screen resolution 3D Three dimensional cinema AVI Audio Video Interleaved file format BBB Big Buck Bunny CPL Composition PlayList DC Digital Cinema DCDM Digital Cinema Distribution Master DCDM Compressed Digital Cinema Distribution Master DCP Digital Cinema Package ext2 ext3 Second third extended file system FAT32 File Allocation Table 32 bit file system FPS Frames Per Second HDTV High Definition Television 1920x1080 screen resolution ICT Irreversible Color Transform JPEG Joint Picture Experts Group KDM Key Delivery Message MOV QuickTime clips file name extension MXF Material eXchange Format PCM Pulse Code Modulation PCRD Post Compression Rate Distortion PKL PacKing List 101 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Acronym Meaning PSNR Peak Signal to Noise Ratio SAR Screen Aspect Ratio SRT SubRip Text TIFF Tagged Image File Format XML eXtensible Markup Language XYZ CIE 1931 color space 102 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Bibliography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Glenn Kennel Color and Mastering for Digital Cinema Focal Press 2006 Rafael Gonzalez Richard Woods Digital Image Processing Prentice Hall 2008 Henry R
39. ampe Universit catholique de Louvain has reported a bug in Mac OS X interface Bill Elswik and Michael Karagosian for providing access to MPEG Interoperability Initiative documents Kommer Kleijn has fixed some errors and misconceptions written into this manual David Ballard tested the program on an extremely multithreaded machine with 12 cores 24 threads And a special thank goes to the boss and the people of the DSP Laboratory Fabrizio Paolo and Barbara 76 http dsplab diei unipg it people faculty giuseppe_baruffa 77 http www diei unipg it 78 http www unipg it 7 http folignoalcinema wordpress com 80 http github com wolfgangw digital_cinema_tools wiki 8 http www knuterikevensen com 82 http www mkpe com 105 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Auxiliary libraries software and other things DCP Builder uses the following external or internal libraries version numbers may change check the log panel right after startup or hit F2 to show the credits dialog for exact numbers 106 zlib v 1 2 3 3 C 1995 2004 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler bzip2 v 1 0 5 10 Dec 2007 C 1996 2002 Julian R Seward All rights res OpenJPEG v 1 4 0 C 2002 2007 Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory Universite catholique de Louvain UCL Belgium LIBTIFF Version 3 8 2 Copyright c 1988 1996 Sam Leffler Copyright c 1991 1996 Silicon Graphics Inc
40. b diei unipg it software opjviewer jpeg 2000 viewer 71 SSE2 is available on any CPU Intel or AMD starting from Pentium IV If you have an older CPU SSE2 will not be used but a slight improvement in processing time can be achieved as well 74 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Table 7 Processing time for a single frame ms Function Times in v0 1 Times in v0 2 Picture load 0 120 150 Gamma decoding 650 700 15 18 RGB gt XYZ 95 110 18 20 COPY 37 42 8 12 Resize BSPLINE 450 500 450 500 Gamma encoding 640 670 15 20 J2K compression 2700 3800 2600 3700 COPY 0 0 Audio resampling SINC 15 15 Audio compression 0 0 MXF contention 30 30 Picture load 120 150 0 75 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Project file syntax By default DCP Builder project files have the dcb extension They are text files that contain a basic syntax for specifying the actions to be done by the program You can open a file and modify it with your preferred text editor The parameter names are case sensitive most of the parameter values are case insensitive Comments Lines beginning with or are considered comments Empty lines are skipped Ex this is a comment 4 this is a comment too Input video section InputVideoFileName string The file path and name of the input clip Video content is mandatory while audio content is optional auxiliary
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42. d If errors are popped up during normal operation please check this log window for inspecting details Menu bar File menu Commands in the File menu fig 35 are used to clean initialize close save or open an existing set of parameters called project with extension dcb And of course to shut down the application 39 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface EX DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckt Edit Help New project Ctrl N E Open project Ctrl O Close project Ctrl C Save project Ctrl S Save project as Recent projects Quit Ctrl Q Figure 35 The File menu New project menu You can either start from a brand new set of parameters with all fields clean or follow the indications of a simple wizard Just answer to the simple questions and follow the hints that you will be asked and you ll finish with functional project settings fig 36 40 New project Please choose to create an empty project orto be guided along a common setting setup with a minimal wizard Please choose the final aspect ratio of the DCP The most common one is scope R Flat HDTV Full Custom 0 cance DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Please choose the final resolution of the DCP The most common one is 2K a 3D 2K 4K Please choose the audio language of the DCP Albanian Arabic Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chines
43. d sampling rate 1 0 2 0 5 1 7 1 and up to 16 audio channels layout converts audio clip formats WAV FLAC plus TIFF PNG TGA DPX BMP sequence of pictures It also converts nearly all video formats if the final user wants to supports multiple origin RGB color spaces PAL NTSC BT 709 sRGB etc can save Digital Cinema Distribution Master DCDM and DCDM in PPM AU J2K XML format can use different files for audio video and text input supports SMPTE and nterop DCP formats can resume work from partially completed DCDM or DCDM subtitles in burn in and nterop mode DCP finalization success email What it does not support MPEG 2 DCPs assembly of multiple input clips video frame rate resampling audio is slowed down or speeded up pitch shift of audio encryption signing and generation of Key Delivery Message KDM Editions DCP Builder is customized in several editions in order to satisfy the requirements of the different types of users Thus in this user s guide not all options will be available to all versions of DCP Builder This will be signaled with a proper logo e g AVAILABLE ONLY IN Table 1 lists and compares all the salient characteristics of the different editions please note that at the moment of writing not all editions could be available and their features could change without notice DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Table 1 Overview of DCP Builder editions and thei
44. disk etc It is thus suggested to take note of the fingerprint during several days of operation and to choose the one recurring more often You can obtain this machine fingerprint via the Help gt Registration menu or by hitting F3 The shown dialog fig 56 presents the fingerprint replicated also in the log panel so you can copy paste it and a field where you can enter the corresponding registration code Enter registration code The created DCPs are all watermarked with a logo which can be removed with a registration code In order to obtain a code you must follow the instructions provided by the author which you find here http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp builder Your machine fingerprint is AAP Cap DEE ATES Ee IAM TRAA ne02 you can copy this serial from the log panel also Enter the received registration code IREGISTRATIONCODE OK Cancel Figure 56 Dialog used to find the machine fingerprint and enter the registration code Before sending your fingerprint restart the machine several times under different configurations wired network Wi Fi dongle external USB drives etc and record the fingerprint It should not change but in case it changes please send the one that appears more frequently 90 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface You should not install DCP Builder on your laptop Laptops are not expected to be used to create DCPs they have slow CPUs slow RAM slow
45. disks etc Avoid sending the fingerprint of your laptop even for evaluation purposes if you need to evaluate you can well use the watermarked version then decide on which machine to install for production and eventually request a registration code Moreover laptops suffer from the changing fingerprint issue so you are warned Remember that the registration code is linked to the fingerprint which is UNIQUE for every PC Thus only request a code with the fingerprint of the PC on which you will prepare the DCPs NOTE DCP PREPARATION FACILITIES CAN USE THIS PROGRAM PROVIDED THAT A SEPARATE AGREEMENT IS DONE How to obtain a registration code In order to obtain a registration code please refer to the instructions provided in the official websites http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp builder http www dcpbuilder com Why l ask for your machine fingerprint One of the main reasons is that it would be possible for others to embed this program in a GUI or CLI of their own and claim H as their own possibly even requiring to be paid for this The fingerprint registration code should prevent this to the less skilled pirates do not collect your data neither for sending spam or bothering you with various requests they will remain private nor for claiming money 91 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Frequently Asked Questions FAQ 1 need this program but don t really understand why you want all my per
46. e Figure 13 Processing frame rate actual compressed bit rate and PSNR quality e Machine load disk usage is represented in terms of percentage of occupied disk space the disk is that where the DCP is being saved whereas CPU load is expressed as percent of time dedicated to the encoding process fig 14 Figure 14 Disk usage and CPU load e Preview window shows a frame every n frames after decoding It allows you to predict if the DCP is being done without problems and allows you to keep an eye to the advancement status Preview can be enabled disabled via the Edit Preview menu fig 15 top NOTE PLEASE DO NOT RELY ON DCP BUILDER PREVIEW FOR TONE CORRECTIONS NOTE REAL TIME PREVIEW IS A COSTLY OPERATION SINCE YOUR JUST ENCODED FRAMES MUST BE COMPLETELY DECODED SET A PROPER UPDATE PERIOD OR DISABLE THE PREVIEW COMPLETELY IF YOUR MAIN CONCERN IS SPEED e DCP formats line summarizing the main characteristics of the DCP being created fig 15 bottom 18 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Figure 15 Preview window and DCP characteristics one line summary e DCP title fig 16 this is imported from the DCDM panel Figure 16 DCP title e Advancement status fig 17 top left o READY when the program is ready to encode o MXF during encoding o HASH during the final hashing phase o blinking DONE when the DCP is ready e Advancement slider shows the percentage of MXF don
47. e Cantonese Chinese Mandarin PRC Chinese Taiwanese Chinese Taiwanese Mandarin Congratulations OK It seems that you have entered all the main settings for your new DCP Please check all the panels for any missing field or if you want to configure further in detail When you are done press START on the front panel and wait for finish L oe Joe J Figure 36 Some steps of the simple wizard procedure Edit menu Commands in the Edit menu fig 37 are used to set program preferences and to enable disable the processing quality preview image 41 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface GE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbt File Edit Help Preferences Ctrl P DC v Preview Ctrl V Figure 37 The Edit menu Preferences menu Some default program preferences can be setup via the Edit Preferences menu A dialog will allow changing these parameters e Aspect fig 38 a o LCD background color the color to be used in the LCD background default is black o LCD foreground color the color to be used in the LCD foreground default is green o Layout change from single window to multiple window layout Application restart is required e Input fig 38 b o BE Enable FFmpeg support tick if you want to enable support for video input files This requires that you have installed or compiled a recent version of FFmpeg For further d
48. e during MXF status or of hashing done during HASH status fig 17 bottom Figure 17 Advancement status and percentage slider during MXF top and HASH bottom stages You can drag and drop project files with dcb extension over the LCD for opening them 19 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Buttons section There are five buttons that allow controlling the operation RESET after a stop or halt action resets the encoding status START begins the encoding process PAUSE pause the encoding process note this may not be implemented in current release STOP gracefully stop the encoding process meaning that a DCP will be created up to the currently processed frame HALT aborts DCP creation entirely resulting DCP is unplayable RESET START PAUSE STOP HALT Figure 18 Operation buttons Input panel The input panel fig 19 allows the user to enter the audio and video clips to be converted into the DCP Such files can be dragged and dropped from your file manager onto the Video Audio and Text input panels 3 35 It does not work in the Windows version 20 GE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Main Log Video Name Size A Duration M ba buck bunny 00001 png 1920x1080 24 00 FPS Audio Name L BigBuckBunny DVDMaster L flac R BigBuckBunny DVDMeaster R flac C MBigBuckBunny DVDMaster C flac LFE B
49. e film print are butterflied shown side by side in a highly calibrated cinema Less demanding DCPs are encoded from tape formats such as HDCAM SR Quality control checks are always performed in calibrated cinemas and carefully checked for errors QC checks are often attended by colorists directors sound mixers and other personnel to check for correct picture and sound reproduction in the finished DCP DCP delivery methods The most common method uses a hard disk designed specifically for digital cinema servers to ingest from The hard drives are usually formatted in the Linux EXT2 or EXT3 format NTFS is occasionally used but is generally not considered reliable as some Linux based digital cinema servers are unable to read this format Hard drive units are normally hired from a digital cinema encoding company sometimes in quantities of thousands Drives are commonly shipped in protective hard cases The drives are delivered via Express Courier to the exhibition site Other less common methods adopt a full digital delivery using either dedicated satellite links or high speed Internet connections Main characteristics of DCP Builder Main features of the program are DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface multiplatform Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux 32 and 64 bit 2K 4K and 3D picture format Flat scope HDTV full and other custom aspect ratios 24 25 30 48 50 and 60 FPS frame rates are supported 48 96 kHz soun
50. e whole frame and the filtering kernel is a 9 7 Cohen Daubechies Feauveau wavelet pair 98 Figure 52 shows decomposition of the BBB frame Figure 52 The frame after one DWT level to achieve two embedded resolutions the subband limits are highlighted Clockwise from top left there is the LL subband the LH subband the HL subband and the HH subband 8 Cohen Daubechies Feauveau wavelet n d In Wikipedia Retrieved February 3 2012 from http en wikipedia org wiki Cohen Daubechies Feauveau wavelet 70 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface The transform operation can be recursively applied to the LL image subband in order to achieve a so called dyadic decomposition Figure 53 shows a 4 level 5 resolutions decomposition of the BBB frame Figure 53 The frame after DWT into 5 resolutions the subband limits are highlighted Dead zone quantization The subband samples are quantized in sign magnitude representation allowing for a dead zone around 0 The number of quantization levels is responsible for a slower or faster execution of the following processing steps Sample data partitioning The original or transformed coefficients are grouped into a series of successively nested partitions e Tiles images in JPEG 2000 standard may be split in several tiles before compression DCI standard requires that only one tile is present the whole image only e Components the tile is considered as a group of three com
51. ents a visual and direct comparison of the most common aspect ratios used in Digital Cinema and HD video both for the 2K and 4K paradigms 28 WARNING DON T USE A CUSTOM ASPECT RATIO UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING EVEN IF VALID CUSTOM ASPECT RATIOS ARE GENERALLY NOT IMPLEMENTED IN MANY PROJECTOR MACRO SETUPS SO IT SHOULD BE NECESSARY TO ASK THE PROJECTIONIST OR THE INSTALLER TO MODIFY ADD IT MANUALLY DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 2048 1080 858 1920 1998 4096 2160 1716 3840 3996 Figure 25 Comparison of common aspect ratios 2K Scope 2048x858 2K Flat 1998x1080 2K HDTV 1920x1080 2K Full 2048x1080 4K Scope 4096x1716 4K Flat 3996x2160 4K SHDTV 3840x2160 4K Full 4096x2160 29 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 8p8 1144 58 Figure 26 Rendering of 4 3 SDTV onto Scope in pillarbox top and letterbox bottom modes Red border outlines effective projection screen size N B 4 3 clips without cropping should not be rendered in pillarbox scope but are best done in pillarbox flat 30 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 58 Figure 27 Rendering of 16 9 HDTV onto Scope in pillarbox top and letterbox bottom modes Red border outlines effective projection screen size N B 16 9 clips without cropping should not be rendered in pillarbox scope but are best done in pillarbox flat 31 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical
52. enu appears only when expanded mode layout is selected fig 40 It can be used to show or hide all the accessory panels project settings preview log trace and to take them all on top of the windows stack at once EE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny All on front Ctrl F Project settings Ctrl P Preview panel Ctri W Log panel Ctri L Trace panel Ctrl T v E e Figure 40 The View menu In this case the aspect of the main panel is that of fig 9 and the preview lives in a separate window 45 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface GE DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit View Help 00 00 01 00 E 00 00 21 94 5 FPS 115 5 Mbps 61 0 dB T 03 20 24 R 03 20 03 2K 24FPS 48kHz 5 1ch REEL 001 003 BIG BUCK BUNNY SHR 1 C EN XX INT AA 51 2K UPG 20120130 DSPL OV MXF 0 2 START STOP HALT Welcome MXF 0 2 Figure 41 The main panel in expanded layout GE Preview bigbuckbunny ORE o8 Ror pS h 230 0 gdbps 965 uet b Figure 42 The preview panel In the preview panel a popup menu allows choosing several things e Fullscreen go full screen with the preview If you have a second monitor you can use it 46 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e Zoom Fit lets the preview always touch from inside the preview panel windows borders or you can select a variable zoom 25 50 75 and 100 and drag with the mouse to exp
53. eoColourSpace string eese si siiis esas nnne tnn Rra E a EEEE arai 79 InputVideoCustom Transform list of 9 Ooatsl sisse sees eee rnnt nnns 79 InputVideoGamma float RR 80 Input AUAIO SSCHON pet EE 80 InputAUGIOFileName String EE 80 InputXAudioFileName strng ean ii iaa 80 InputAudioLayout float rr 81 SA SN 81 InputTextFileName S MNO 00 iia 81 DEDM SOCHON m em 81 DCDMPictirePath STAN a 81 DCDMXmlPath SINO aa 81 DCDMSoundPath string ie ia iia apa npe REER iris 82 DOEDMSAVOTYDO STO ex E E E gea or noD P Deae e bauen ua Hoop eye ace ERE Xn e doanh tpe 82 DCDMPictureResolution string eese sisse eese innen nennen etn hse tn nennen ss errans en son 82 DCDMpPictureResolutionLevels string ossis sies essent enne natns 82 DCDMPictureRate integer iar e d s orae Root e E bas VY eae nae Sp RR ER Lu c 82 DCDMsSoundRate Dnteger ke 83 DCDMPictureAspectratio SUG EE 83 DCDMPictureCustomAspectRatio fetriog cnn anni 83 DCDMPictureBoxing S NO ieron erennere tenikan ienke ir ennet a ONE RETAANE ENERE E AEAEE ERE EREA 83 DCDMSubtitleMethod string AAA 84 DCDMJ2KPicturePath string anena aaa EAR nn 84 DCDMNumberOfFrames nteger seni rennari nr rra rra Satans i iSS ERARAS 84 DCDMFramesPerReel Integer nen nenne nennen aon 84 DCDMCueList fetringo eases aeeeeeeaeeeaaesceessaeeeaaeeeeeseaeessaeseeeseeeesaaesesesene
54. ered an overlay is added to the picture tarting thread starting mpression thread 600009 003831 0 62 21 53s 5 fps 00 00 26 62 dcpcmd demo i artbeats dcb site catholique de Louvain UCL Belgium Copyright c 1988 1996 Sam Leffler Copyright c 1991 1996 Silicon Graphics Inc Pehrson 2003 2006 2007 The FreeType Development Team www freetype org Macq Marc Vandenbosch MVA 003 The OpenSSL Project All righ Software Center Ltd and Clark yright c 2801 2006 Expat maintaine occur opened b DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 600 Terminal bash 125x37 c Figure 47 The Windows a Linux b and Mac OS X c command line interface 63 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Technical aspects overview Technical specifications of DCPs The DCP root folder in the storage medium contains a number of files some of them used to store the image and audio contents and some other used to organize and manage the whole playlist Picture MXF files Picture contents are stored in one or more reels corresponding to one or more MXF files Each reel contains pictures as MPEG 2 or JPEG 2000 essence depending on the adopted codec MPEG 2 is no longer compliant with the DCI specification JPEG 2000 is the only accepted compression format e Supported frame rates are 24 25 30 48 50 and 60 frames per second Maximum frame size is 2048x1080 for 2K DC 24 25 3
55. ered source versions must be plainly marked as such and must not be misrepresented as being the original software 4 The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Julian Seward jseward bzip org bzip2 libbzip2 version 1 0 5 of 10 December 2007 LibTIFF Copyright c 1988 1997 Sam Leffler Copyright c 1991 1997 Silicon Graphics Inc Permission to use copy modify distribute and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee provided that i the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation and ii the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may
56. etails read the section Video import in Basic edition o BE FFmpeg folder this is the folder where the ffmpeg and ffprobe executables can be found If the programs are in your search path leave this field empty NOTE IF YOU SPECIFY THE EXECUTABLES FOLDER ALWAYS APPEND THE TRAILING SLASH OR BACKSLASH IN YOUR PATH E G C PROGRAM FILES FFMPEG BIN OPT FFMPEG BIN APPLICATIONS FFMPEG BIN e DCP fig 38 c o Issuer default issuer name for your DCPs o Facility default rating label for your DCPs o Rating label default rating label for your DCPs 53 The program has been tested with FFmpeg git 14d94a1 42 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface o Rating agency default rating agency for your DCPs o Prompt on overwrite it will always prompt before overwriting files in the DCP folder o Create folder if there are output folders that do not yet exist they will be created however hierarchical folder creation is not available o Custom filenames you may override the standard recommendations and select custom names for volume index and asset map files Clearly doing so will render the DCP unplayable Application restart is required DCDM fig 38 d o White point chromaticity adaptation the color transformation matrix can be weighted in order to adapt the origin colorspace white point to the SMPTE DCDM white point This is done by means of a Bradford type cone response do not understand if tha
57. etsaeseees 84 DCDMPictureBitrate Mas 85 DCDMbBitrate2 float ees a baeE e ER ee ee 65 DCDMBYypass SAJ E ia ias 85 DEP SECOM cerca ia ise 85 DGPPath SiN HEB uM EHI NM 85 DEPTYPO RE 85 DEPVersion Sql da 86 DOPCIip TUG Ee 86 iple Nep Eeer Er 86 DCPAnnotation Eer 86 DGPISSUGI ele 86 DCPFacillity STO as 86 DOPAQGICY SUING REO 87 DCPLabel fetriog RARE 87 DCPEocale String EE 87 DGPStandard string etie da epe i ME 87 Names of the DEP files SINO ais 88 Cryptography section EXPERIMENTAL DON T USE ssssseeeeeeenneeen nnns 88 ien e 88 Compression engine Section titer tec ae DR X diaa dac eaa d ed 89 EngineNumberOfThreads integer eese cnn corran cronicas 89 EnginePiclureResize String EE 89 EngineSoundResample string AAA 89 EngineResume string 2 5 2 ts i eite diia 89 Engine TraceFileName string he ii EE Her th 90 EngineTraceContents list of strings eese sies eias nro EES ARNE AANE ECEAT TER santet 90 EngineLogFileName Ee EE 90 Ehginebog listof strings EE olaaa 90 CIE ENER EEN 91 How to obtain a registration Code 92 Why l ask for your machine fngerprint ennemis 92 Frequently Asked Questions FAQ c scceseceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees seen seeeeeeeeaeeeseeeeeseeseeeseseeeeeeeeeeenees 93 Eee ao
58. file or silence else Ex InputVideoFileName my video avi InputL VideoFileName string InputRVideoFileName string The file path and name of the input stereoscopic clips Audio content is taken from aux or mono files Ex InputLVideoFileName InputRVideoFileName sampleL mov sampleR mov 76 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface InputVideoFrameRate float The frame rate of the input file s if not recoverable from the file itself EX InputVideoFrameRate 24 InputVideoDownSample integer Frame increment to use 1 means every frame NOTE THIS MAY NOT WORK AS EXPECTED DON T USE UNLESS NECESSARY EX InputVideoDownSample 2 InputVideoRepeat integer Number of times the whole clip will be repeated NOTE THIS DOES NOT WORK YET Ex InputVideoRepeat 1 InputVideoColourSpace string Colorspace of the input video XYZ BT 709 sRGB PAL NTSC Adobe Apple Custom Ex InputVideoColourSpace PAL InputVideoCustomTransform list of 9 floats The 9 custom color transform matrix coefficients 77 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Ex InputVideoCustomTransform 0 26 0 35 0 12 0 02 0 00 0 78 0 21 0 36 0 10 InputVideoGamma float Gamma of the input video e g 2 2 You may here override the default colorspace gamma Ex InputVideoGamma 2 35 Input audio section InputAudioFileName string The file path and name of an auxiliary mul
59. formed in YCxCz colorspace and rendered in RGB colorspace Discrete Wavelet Transform DWT This transform is used to decorrelate the image samples but using a technique which presents some interesting side effects The trick is that of splitting the image into its horizontal vertical and diagonal spatial frequency components This is achieved via a mathematical object called a Wavelet However for most of us that will simply coincide with a linear filtering operation low pass blurring or averaging and high pass sharpening or differencing followed by size reduction by a factor of two For instance let s consider a 4x4 image component neighborhood with pixel amplitudes 02 04 04 0 0 and its row wise average Note how the following neighborhood 69 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface can be used by adding and subtracting the above values to obtain back the original values Thus our simple horizontal transform has given us 02 04 03 1 01 gt I 0 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 The same operation can be applied this time column wise to obtain 03 01 0 05 0 15 0 2 1 0 2 gt 0251 0 05 Thus the value 0 05 represents the low pass filtering in the diagonal direction 0 15 the high pass in the horizontal 0 25 the high pass in the vertical and 0 05 the high pass in the diagonal these components are called the LL HL LH and HH subbands respectively In the general case averaging and differencing are applied to th
60. g multiple hard disks This file is used to identify the volume order in the series Stereoscopic DCPs The very same format shown before is also used to store stereoscopic 3D contents In this case 48 50 or 60 frames per second are used with frames alternating for left eye and right eye pictures Since the maximum bit rate is always 250 Mbit s this results in a net 125 Mbit s for single frame but the visual quality decrease is generally unnoticeable The XYZ colorspace The XYZ colorspace is used since it can act as a reference colorspace for all devices be them either cameras or projectors This fact guarantees that the reproduced color tones will be identical to those of the original clip Fig 48 shows the CIE XYZ colorspace and how the RGB gamut is enclosed in it 7 The speeds of 50 and 60 fps may not yet be supported on all playback equipment 65 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Figure 48 The CIE XYZ chromaticity diagram with some notable points As an example figures 49 and 50 show how one frame of the Big Buck Bunny movie is rendered in the original sRGB colorspace and how it appears after transformation into XYZ colorspace the shallower colors do not pose any problems since during rendering at the projector an opposite color transform is done Each component sample of the XYZ frame is assumed to be represented with 12 bits data alignment to byte boundaries is done by moving these 12 bits
61. h string Folder path where Xml files are optionally stored Ex DCDMXmlPath dcp dcdm xml DCDMSoundPath string Folder path where Wave files are optionally stored NOTE AU FILES ARE STORED INDEED Ex DCDMSoundPath dcp dcdm wav DCDMSaveType string Type of DCDM to save Space separated list of tiff 2k wave xml Ex DCDMSaveType tiff wave DCDMPictureResolution string Frame size of the DCDM 2K 4K or 3D Ex DCDMPictureResolution 2K 80 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DCDMPictureResolutionLevels string Number of embedded resolutions in the DCP may vary between 1 and 7 the maximum value is dictated by the picture resolution Ex DCDMPictureResolutionLevels 5 DCDMPictureRate integer Frame rate of the DCDM 23 98 24 25 30 48 50 or 60 fps Ex DCDMPictureRate 24 DCDMSoundRate integer Sampling rate of the DCDM 48000 or 96000 Hz Ex DCDMSoundRate 48000 DCDMPictureAspectRatio string Aspect ratio of the DCDM flat scope hdtv ful or custom Custom ratio is given in DCDMPictureCustomAspectRatio Ex DCDMPictureAspectRatio scope DCDMPictureCustomAspectRatio string Custom aspect ratio of the DCDM given as widthxheight e g 2048x800 Must be enabled in DCDMPictureAspectRatio Ex DCDMPictureCustomAspectRatio 2048x872 81 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface NOTE USING A CUSTOM ASPECT RA
62. he rates section There are a bunch of rates available the most standard and working ones are 24 and 48 FPS for video and 48 kHz for audio If you entered a SubRip file in the input section you can also choose the way to embed subtitles in your DCP The first one burn in of course superimposes the text right on the images The other methods use XML and font files The total duration of the DCP can be decided by entering the required number of frame or the duration in seconds Specifying a value of O frames will use all the available frames in the input source Simply put you should always set it to O unless you are testing Moreover reels can be created every x minutes or having a max storage size or containing a certain number of frames If you just want one reel set Frames to 0 However when you first add a new clip in the video Input panel the number of frames is used to fill this control e one reel only Reels can also be specified by adding a number of points in the cue list you can enter a timecode or frame number per line and a new reel will be created at that timecode Making multiple reels out of a single input clip is a debated question One possible answer is that if you use a FAT 32 formatted device for storing the DCP a USB key for instance your maximum file size is limited to 2 GB You can decide the size of your DCP files by adjusting the Total bitrate value 250 Mbps is the highest standardized value so d
63. ibpng version 1 4 0 January 3 2010 Copyright c 1998 2010 Glenn Randers Pehrson FreeType v 2 3 11 C 2003 2006 2007 The FreeType Development Team www freetype org Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright c 2003 by Bitstream Inc All Rights Reserved Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream Inc LibOGG 1 1 4 C Copyright 1994 2007 by the Xiph Org Foundation http www xiph org libFLAC 1 2 1 Free Lossless Audio Codec library Copyright C 2000 2007 Josh Coalson AS DCP v 1 8 44 Copyright c 2003 2011 John Hurst All rights reserved OpenCinemaTools v 1 1 2 Copyright c 2008 TELE UCL Benoit Macq Marc Vandenbosch MVA OpenSSL 0 9 81 5 Nov 2009 Copyright c 1998 2003 The OpenSSL Project All rights reserved Expat 2 0 1 Copyright c 1998 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper Copyright c 2001 2006 Expat maintainers A C program for MT19937 Copyright C 1997 2002 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura Copyright C 2005 Mutsuo Saito All rights reserved CIE tables Copyright c 1995 2010 Color and Vision Research Labs RGB spaces Copyright c 2001 2010 Bruce J Lindbloom All Rights Reserved The SGI Image File Format Draft version 0 97 Paul Haeberli paul sgi com Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Welcome READY Figure 34 The log panel At startup the logger shows all the loaded and compiled libraries Every event is time stampe
64. ig Davide Rondini LibOGG 1 1 4 C Copyright 1994 2007 by the Xiph Org Foundation http www xiph org libFLAC 1 2 1 Free Lossless Audio Codec library Copyright C 2000 2007 Josh Coalson Base64 coder Copyright c 2001 Bob Trower Trantor Standard Systems Inc SQLCipher v3 7 9 Copyright c 2010 Zetetic LLC 107 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Changelog HISTORY OF MODIFICATIONS AND BUG FIXING 2012 02 03 DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 Third version of the program DPX files are now imported even with the XPDS signature Removed automatic insertion of rating agency and rating label when they are not given Fixed last subtitle freeze bug in burn in mode Fixed simple wizard bad behaviors two files are kept in stereoscopic mode frame rate of input video is reflected in the input panel and the rating tag naming convention issue Completely removed internal support to AVI MP4 MOV etc files via FFmpeg or Libav in order to avoid patent infringement problems This function must now be explicitly enabled by the final user Moved position of Creator tag and ScreenAspectRatio tag changed from rational to decimal according to Interop XSD schemas W Woehl Fixed a bug when no target DCP resolution is chosen Added support to 96 100 and 120 FPS in stereoscopic mode avatar 2 thanks to switch to AS DCP 1 8 44 Renamed the current options to Basic Edition 2011 07 18 DCP Builder v0 2
65. igBuckBunny DVDMaster LFE flac LS BigBuckBunny DVDMaster LS flac Rate amp Ch 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 00 09 56 s Duration 00 09 56 s 00 09 56 s 00 09 56 s 00 09 56 s 00 09 56 s Custom colorspace transform 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 0 0000000 Text Duration Settings DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface RS BigBuckBunny DVDMaster RS flac 48000 0 Hz 1 ch 00 09 56 s Frame rate 24 00 Downsample 1 Repeat A Gamma Channels 51 Welcome Figure 19 The input panel Video clips Enter video clips by right clicking on the list box fig 20 and selecting the files you want to include in your project The video clip must be in one of the supported formats see tab 4 in case of a sequence of images select the first image the one with the lowest ordinal Similarly files can be also removed from the lists Use and keys to raise up lower down a file in the list Remove file Stereoscopic Rate 8 Ch Duration Name Figure 20 Pop up menu in input clip panel You can also decide to enter two different files one per view when encoding stereoscopic DCPs fig 21 21 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Video Name Size A Duration L 0001 tif 2048x858 24 00 FPS 00 00 10 s R 0001 tif 2048x858 24 00 FPS
66. ion Any newer version should be ok for older ones nothing is guaranteed Binary downloads Download a compiled version of FFmpeg or Libav for your operating system Generally these programs can be found via Google or starting from the project home pages Note that you need both the ffmpeg and ffprobe programs preferably compiled statically in order to avoid shared libraries mismatch Microsoft Windows A good place to look at is Zeranoe s website google it 54 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface GNU Linux You can use the official or unofficial repositories of your distribution For instance under Ubuntu you can do the following gt sudo apt get install ffmpeg ffprobe Apple Mac OS X Precompiled binaries are hard to find but you can have a chance by looking at the f mpegX project Browse inside the f mpegX app and look for f mpeg executables Differently a semi automatic method to get the program installed is to use macports or fink Source download and compilation Install manually the program executables into a folder of your choice You might also do a system wide install Microsoft Windows e Download the FFmpeg release tarball e g ffmpeg git 14d94a1 tar bz2 from its download page e Open the compressed archive and extract its contents to a folder e g c Program FilesVfmpeg git 14d94a1 You can use 7zip e Download and install Visual C 2008 Express Edition with SP1 from Micros
67. ion directory c programs dcpbuilder template under windows in usr share dcpbuilder template or similar use find for the exact location under linux or inside the Contents MacOS template app folder under mac os x So basically you just need to create a DCP builder project file with all your preferred settings save it with a significant name for you and place it in the template folder When you restart the program it will find the new template that will be selectable in the File gt new menu 94 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface License DCP Builder Basically e you can download DCP Builder and install it on whatever number of PCs you want e you can run an unlimited number of instances of DCP Builder in parallel or concurrently on whatever PC you use e you can produce an unlimited number of DCPs either for personal non profit or commercial use e you can receive only ONE registration code per employer 4 provided that the following is not mandatory but any elegant person should consider it e you clearly show in your derived work e g final credits that this software has been used for DCP production the web page you downloaded it from and the copyright holder statement for instance with the following credit lines This DCP has been produced using DCP Builder 0 3 Copyright O 2009 2012 Giuseppe Baruffa All Rights Reserved http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp builder http www dcpbuilder c
68. is also possible to specify the path of a trace file where information on encoding PSNR time bitrate is written This same information is also available on the trace panel in a nice view The trace file is an ASCII text file with a very simple format such as 250049472 144232512 66710208 37150080 250023744 148121088 64031424 37605312 250022976 146086464 63366720 40508544 249775872 135135360 72251520 42510528 249834432 134035776 75941568 39974592 Each line is a tab separated list of e frame number e PSNR dB e 4K 2K and component bit rates bps e frame rate fps This file can be easily post processed for recovering the encoding history fig 32 An m script that can be used for loading and drawing the results shown in the figure is available from the download site 49 E g dual hex core CPU with hyperthreading Depends on the software edition 50 This script can be used with programs such as Matlab Octave or Scilab 36 Bitrate Mbps 300 0 100 rate 171 0 Mbps DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Avg PSNR 63 8 dB 110 T T T 100 F 90 80 sce s eit dete baee A L PSNR dB 60 50 40 200 300 L 400 500 Timecode s a 600 700 i i i i i 400 500 600 700 800 Timecode s b ii L L i 800 900 0 100 200 300 900 Figure 32 PSNR a and bitrate b history as extracted from
69. k Adler bzip2 v 1 0 5 10 Dec 2007 C 1996 2002 Julian R Seward AL OpenJPEG v 1 4 0 C 2082 2007 Communications and Remote Se JPEGlib v 2 C 1991 1998 Thomas G Lane FFmpeg Lavc52 58 0 Lavf52 55 8 c 2001 Fabrice Bellard LIBTIFF Versic libpng v FreeType Delicious a Buivenga exljbris gt www exljbris nl AS DCP v 1 7 40 Copyright c 2003 2010 John Hur ALL rights r rved OpenCinemaTools v 1 1 2 Copyright 2008 TELE UCL Benoi OpenSSL 0 9 8k 25 Mar 2009 Copyright c 1998 t 2 0 1 Copyright c 1998 2000 Thai Open Si Solomon encoder decoder Copyright C Phil Karn KA9Q September 1996 LDPC coder Copyright c 1995 1996 2000 2001 2006 by Radford M Neal Rand48 routines Copyright c 1993 Martin Birgmeier All righ Copyright c 2000 by Michael Barr Copyright c 1995 2818 Color and Vision Research Labs Copyright c 2001 2010 Bruce J Lindbloom All Right The SGI Image File Format Draft version 0 97 Paul Haeberli paul fied TARGA library Copyright c 2005 Michael L Gleicher OpenDPX v0 5 0 SMPTE V2 0 Copyright c 2009 Pa LAVC Video codec type h264 LAVC Audio codec type ac3 tible sampling and frame rates 48011 988281 sps input home giuseppe build mmlib trunk hd other artbea Video format is MPEG 2 ffmpeg r22379 January 3 10 Copyright c 1998 2010 Glenn Ran Reserved 48000 000000 sp red demo ri The program is not Compression Compression Compres
70. lore several parts of the picture e Stereo choose between previewing the Left or the Right view There is a small one line summary of encoding quality on the top left side of the preview in this case the reported FPS are averaged on the last 100 frames thus you can have a running complexity estimation Help menu Commands in the He p menu fig 43 are used to show generic information on the program version and author s as well as the credits to all the software libraries adopted A PDF manual this document can also be opened Moreover it is also possible to enter the registration code that removes the watermark imprinted on all the images in the rendered DCP For more info on registration see Registration section M EL DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny Manual F4 DM Registration F3 Credits F2 About Fl Figure 43 The Help menu Other windows are those relevant to About fig 44 and Credits fig 45 47 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 48 About DCP Builder Basic Edition SL DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 2010 2012 Giuseppe Baruffa A simple but powerful program for creating Digital Cinema Packages 64 bit Build date Jan 30 2012 16 33 29 Revision 357 OS Windows NT 6 1 build 7601 Service Pack 1 64 bit edition Built with wxWidgets 2 9 1 http dsplab diei unipg it software dcp builder Developers gt gt Lx
71. not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL INCIDENTAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE 97 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Libav This software library adopts the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 1 which you can find in the install folder of the program also http www gnu orqg licenses old licenses lgpl 2 1 standalone html LibPNG This software library adopts an open source license http www libpng org pub png src libpng LICENSE txt Libnsbmp This software library adopts the MIT license http opensource org licenses mit license php LibFLAC This software library adopts the new BSD license http flac cvs sourceforge net viewvc flac flac COPYING Xiph LibTarga This software library adopts the MIT license http opensource org licenses mit license php Libxml
72. ntax section e f you are still more curious about how a DCP is done internally explore the section Technical specifications of DCPs What is a DCP A Digital Cinema Package is a collection of digital files used to store and convey Digital Cinema DC audio image and data streams The term has been defined by Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC in their recommendations for packaging of DC contents Following to the recommendations general practice adopts a file structure that is organized into a number of generally multi gigabyte size Material eXchange Format MXF files which are separately used to store audio and video streams and auxiliary index files in XML format One such file the Composition Playlist defines the playback order of Digital Cinema Packages during presentation The MXF files contain streams that are compressed encoded and encrypted in order to reduce the huge amount of required storage and to protect from unauthorized use The image part is JPEG 2000 compressed whereas the audio part is linear PCM The adopted optional encryption standard is AES 128 bit in CBC mode SMPTE standards are used to conform to the recommendations among different tool vendors and producers Digital Cinema Package n d In Wikipedia Retrieved May 10 2011 from http en wikipedia org wiki Digital Cinema Package http www dcimovies com DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface For more technical informa
73. o not exceed to maintain compatibility Expert users may also want to change the Component bitrate this is the maximum bitrate that each one of the three components can achieve In the Folders section can be entered the paths of the folders that can optionally contain the DCDM files You can drag and drop folders over them 44 Partial support for SubRip features like italic text color change vertical layout etc do not work 25 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface G DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 bigbuckbunny File Edit Help Main Input DCP Engine Trace Picture sound rates amp subtitling Folders Frame rate 24 FPS Picture F dcp dcdm tiff Sample rate 48 kHz J2K dcp dcdm j2k Sub method None Sound dcp dcdm wav Global duration Subtitle Frames 0 Resolution amp aspect Seconds 0 Stereoscopic Resolution 2k Reel duration amp cue list Levels 6 Frames 0 00 00 51 12 00 04 05 17 Aspect ratio HDTV Custom ratio 2048x600 Seconds 0 Size MB 0 Boxing Letterbox Picture bitrate Bypass El Gamma E Headroom Total Mbps 125 Component Mbps 99 Welcome Figure 22 The DCDM panel Stereoscopic DCPs can be created provided that you enter two input files in the input video section You can also decide the resolution and what the best aspect ratio is for your DCP based on the input material and yo
74. oft page Di e Download and run the most recent MinGW installer eg mingw get inst 20111118 exe from the MinGW page P e During the setup phase select to install C compiler and MSYS Basic System Wait for all packages being downloaded and installed automatically some minutes are needed e Download generic Win32 Yasm executable e g yasm 1 2 0 win32 exe from Yasm download page 9 Rename it to yasm exe and copy it inside the bin folder of your MinGW installation directory e g c MinGW bin e Launch MinGW Shell from your Windows menu 59 http www 7zip org 0 http www microsoft com visualstudio en us products 2008 editions express 61 http www mingw org 8 http yasm tortall net 55 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface In the just opened MINGW32 console type ib and verify that you obtain an output containing Microsoft R Library Manager Differently Change to the folder where you extracted the FFmpeg archive gt cd c Program Files ffmpeg git 14d94a1 Create directories build and inst and change folder to build gt mkdir build inst cd build Now you need to configure FFmpeg Since you are compiling by yourself and experimenting for personal use you can enable almost anything When you have tested this you have to recompile according to patent restrictions issued in your country Thus issue the configure command and let it run for some minutes gt
75. om Anyway will not sue you if you don t But remember that writing this program took me a lot of time and efforts and that you are not paying a buck for it so just be honest THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL 74 This means that there is no 100 guarantee that you will receive at least one free registration code the number may be between 0 and n it depends on the discretion of the author 75 For example if you use DCP Builder for 10 s interval clips or for ads you can safely omit this stuff 95 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE Included libraries Zlib Copyright C 1995 2010 Jean loup Gailly and Mark Adler This software is provided as is without any express or implied warranty In no event will the authors
76. ou can now indicate this folder in program preferences How to play a DCP without a server or projector When your DCP is ready you may want to test before ingesting it into the DC server There are some possibilities in this case mainly using a software player For purposes of syntactic correctness of the DCP suggest you to use Fraunhofer s EasyDCP player which has a limited playtime of 15 s and no color transform but is great for checking if the XML files are fine If you need to preview your full DCP then you can use digitAll s dcpPlayer which is quite fast but has a limited time license and watermarks the image Another option is to use 3dtv at s Stereoscopic player which limits the play out to 5 minutes but has no time expiration Anyway this is very cheap software which you can afford easily 63 http www dcinema fraunhofer de en veranstaltungen ibc player jsp 64 http digitall net au products dcp player html 5 http www 3dtv at Index_en aspx 59 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Command line user interface In addition to the GUI DCP Builder has also a command line interface CLI that allows producing a DCP with exactly the same quality without need of windows or physical screens fig 47 a b and c The CLI reads the projects saved by the GUI and processes the files exactly as usual by providing the file as a parameter gt dcpbuilder i project file name R registra
77. pe of the DCP write down the rating agency and label and the issuer Then select the languages Eventually press Suggest title amp annotation to fill the last two fields with common conventions Since the naming convention is a bit complicated sometimes you may need to check it and correct accordingly Anyhow a DCP with an off standard naming convention will always work on every server 55 For example the Dolby DSS100 with old firmware does not support SMPTE but only Interop 56 See http www digitalcinemanamingconvention com for a more complete and thorough guidance to fill correctly this field 52 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e Setthe encoding parallelization in the Engine panel o You can begin by setting a low value e g 2 You can modify this value as the encoding goes Do not choose a number higher than the number of CPUs hyperthreads on your machine o Set Resume to None o If the picture and sound do not need resampling leave Nearest as method in both selectors You can use Copy if the frame rate sample rate and image size of inputs are exactly the same of the DCP e Press Start button in the main panel to begin encoding and wait for finish o The MXF label is lit during the main encoding phase this means that the mxf files containing the audio and video reels are being produced You can have an estimate of how long the encoding will last if you have an SMTP server available you can recei
78. ponents DCI states them to always represent Y Cx and Cz colors ICT is mandatory e Resolutions a resolution is a group of three high pass subbands HL LH and HH at higher levels or the single low pass subband LL at the bottom level Up to 6 resolutions can be present in 2K whereas 7 maximum 2 minimum resolutions are allowed in 4K e Subbands contain the horizontal and vertical low pass high pass transform coefficients 71 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e Precincts an optional tile of pixels at the resolution subband levels They are required if used to have power of two side sizes The DCI standard specifies them to be used and to have a 128x128 size at the lowest resolution and 256x256 size at the higher ones 9 e Codeblocks a tile of pixels at the precinct level They are required to have power of two side sizes The JPEG 2000 standard specifies them to be this exact size everywhere and the DCI standard specifies this size to be 32x32 9 Figure 54 shows how the BBB frame is fully partitioned after this step Figure 54 The frame after sample data partitioning every different solid line width represents a different partitioning level subband precinct and codeblock Tier 1 Lossless coding A second coding step requires now that compression is achieved in a lossless way that is the quantized coefficient samples are exactly coded into the compressed image Fractional bitplane coding E
79. program will always try to maintain the audio in sync with the video thus for example a 25 fps input clip converted into a 24 fps DCP will result in audio slow down No processing is done to adjust the pitch you get what you get If your concern is on the audio quality you should adjust the clip before converting it into a DCP 11 want the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious feature on the program When will you add it Just try to ask for it ONCE and wait it may be a very long wait 12 Can use the program to prepare a DCP for distribution to cinemas Of course yes You can also consider the License section that is you may want to credit this software and not try to sue me if it does not work as expected In case a free entrance for the premiere is welcome 13 want need the source code How do get it Source code is not available The only source code you can get is that of Libav that for legal and licensing reasons must be made available to everyone You can download it from http dante diei unipg it baruffa DCPBuilder 14 am not able to run the program Can you prepare the DCP for me Can you give me the best settings No it is not possible Please refer to a DC encoding facility or service or experiment by yourself Please don t ask things that are already covered in this manual 93 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 15 Why did you choose Libav instead of FFmpeg have no p
80. r features FE Freeware Edition BE Edition Basic AE Advanced Edition Microsoft Windows version y Apple Mac OS X version GNU Linux version 2K 8 3D 4K 16 channels audio layout Subtitles Imports BMP TIFF DPX PNG TGA picture sequences Imports WAV FLAC audio clips Imports video clips 2 Ielel ei ie Je Je 2 e e 2 Iezlel eie Je Je 2 e e Hyperthreading limit gt O N E Command line version Sends email when done Custom aspect ratio Custom colorspace 2 EE C Quick JPEG 2000 compression engine Digital signature of XML files Reels encryption 2 252 2212 lt Compatibility and tests The DCPs prepared by this program have been tested on the following DC servers or DC software e Hardware players o Doremi Labs DCP 2000 4 3 Video clip import is available only after user action DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface o Kodak JMN 3000 o Kodak SMS o Dolby dss100 5 o Dolby dss200 9 o Doremi Labs IMB 4K o XDC CineStore Solo G3 e Software players o Fraunhofer s EasyDCP player o digitAll s dcpPlayer o 3dtv at s Stereoscopic player Other similar programs Table 2 presents a list of programs that to my and Wikipedia knowledge are able to prepare DCPs For further details please check out Wikipedia page 2 Table 2 DCP encoding software at a glance Name JPEG
81. reference for the moment will stay on Libav waiting to understand how the FFmpeg developer team will respond to the fork 16 Why don t you provide ProRes support by default ProRes can be decoded only under Windows if you previously installed the QuickTime environment The QuickTime SDK is required to build the program with this support enabled It is uncertain what exactly are the licensing terms of such SDK that s the motivation 17 Do need to select XYZ colorspace and 2 6 gamma as per DCI specs Generally you don t unless your source material has been formatted in this way Normally you have an input that is in SRGB or in BT 709 colorspace try to select them 18 Is it better to export my input sources to TIFF or to DPX For me it s better TIFF But others might prefer a different format However always try to use your original clip If it s an AVI why exporting to TIFF 19 Why there is no more AVI and MOV support In order to avoid risks of patent infringement e g H 264 MPEG 2 all the FFmpeg or Libav code used for this has been removed This has nothing to do with the LGPL licensing which was completely fulfilled You can personally enable support to AVI and MOV and other types of video as well however 20 How can add further presets in the wizard Presets are partially completed dcb projects which are placed in a default directory in your system This folder is generally in the installat
82. running under Microsoft Windows Apple Mac OS X Double click on the dmg disk image and drag and drop the program over the Applications folder fig 5 You may omit to copy the manual since it is a link to the manual embedded in the bundle 3 items 14 3 MB available A g DCP Builder Basic Edition s A PDF A DCP Builder User s Guide pdf Figure 5 DCP Builder disk image contents under Mac OS X Leopard GNU Linux Double click on the deb or rpm archive and install with programs like gdebi or KPackagekit figs 6 and T 12 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface x LE Package Installer dcpbuilder be File He F Package dcpbuilder be install Package Status All dependencies are satisfied Description Details Included fis Digital Cinema Package builder Build your own DCP starting from any video clip Main features of the program are Natively multiplatform Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux 32 and 64 bit 2K 4K and 3D picture format Flat scope HDTV and full aspect ratios 24 25 30 48 50 and 60 FPS frame rates are supported 48 96 kHz sound sampling rate 1 0 2 0 5 1 7 1 and up to 16 audio channels layout converts audio clip formats WAV FLAC etc plus TIFF PNG TGA DPX BMP sequence of pictures It also converts nearly all video formats if the final user wants to Supports multiple origin RGB color spaces PAL NTSC BT 709 etc Can
83. save Digital Cinema Distribution Master DCDM and DCDM in PPM AU J2K XML format y Figure 6 DCP Builder setup running within gdebi under Ubuntu Linux Install KPackageKt 2 e o X i Do you want to install this file dcpbuilder be 0 3 1 586 rpm Figure 7 DCP Builder setup running within KPackageKit under openSUSE Linux Differently you can install it from the command line with Ubuntu gt sudo dpkg i dcpbuilder 03 be 1386 deb or openSUSE gt sudo zypper install dcpbuilder be 0 3 1 1586 rpm 13 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Removal Microsoft Windows Uninstall the program from the Control Panel or from the proper program menu entry and follow the given instructions Apple Mac OS X Delete the application from the Applications folder GNU Linux Uninstall the package using Ubuntu Software Center synaptics or yast From the command line you can issue the following commands gt sudo dpkg r dcpbuilder or gt sudo apt get remove dcpbuilder or gt sudo rpm e dcpbuilder or gt sudo zypper remove dcpbuilder 14 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Graphical User Interface The GUI has two different operating modes compact and extended which can be selected in the program preferences The program needs to be restarted in order to change interface In compact
84. sible the video frame rates with audio sampling rates In some particular cases the program will warn that possible audio glitches will be presented to output This warning can normally be ignored but always check your DCP audio before projection from beginning to end that is check that there is no delay sync accumulation Subtitle clips Enter one subtitle file only in SubRip srt format in the list box The subtitle file must begin with a spot number i e no blank line The times are associated with the original frame rate of the video clip thus a change in video frame rate will keep the subtitles synchronized Clip formats At the time of writing the supported clip image video audio subtitle formats are reported in tables 3 to 6 Some of these formats will not give you the full expected precision so please read also the accompanying notes Table 3 Supported image sequence formats Format Library used for import Notes BMP Libnsbmp 7 8 bit only 23 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Format Library used for import Notes DPX OpenDPX38 PNG LibPNG 9 8 and 16 bits SGI Internal 16 bit OK TGA LibTarga TIFF LibTIFF 8 12 16 bit no RGBA Table 4 Supported video formats Format Library used for import Notes AN video FFmpeg plugin 8 bit only Due to patenting and licensing reasons in codecs order to have extended video support FFmpeg
85. sonal information details At the beginning of this manual there is an updated list of programs that can do DCPs both free and commercial you are not obliged to use DCP Builder 2 I want to test the program please send me the registration code If you just need to test the program there is no need to ask a registration code The DCP will be watermarked in the center of every frame but apart from that it will work perfectly as if registered After you have tested it successfully and you are satisfied with it then apply for your registration 3 am not employed by any company Can I get the code as well Of course that is possible Just specify that in your request in addition to all other required fields 4 Why the one code per employer limit This program is not conceived to be used as a DCP mass production tool Large companies are well able to buy commercial licenses of other similar tools 5 have asked for a registration code but did not receive it How do I get it Please be sure to fill all the required fields in the email and allow some days for processing No answer positive or negative could be given to badly compiled or lacking in detail emails Moreover be explicit in the title of the email such as Request of registration code for DCP Builder 6 Encoding is slow How can improve speed Every effort has been done to make things go fast Faster encoding needs costly libraries contact
86. t is really necessary from a colorist point of view so instead of applying it by default the choice is left to you expect feedback on this o Enable gamma headroom bypass if you want to create the DCDM entirely on your own responsibility you can disable DCI gamma encoding and digital headroom in the DCDM panel For doing so you must enable this option here e Preview fig 38 e o Frame decode interval increase or decrease the interval between frames that will also be fully decoded in order to obtain a preview A good trade off is 1 or 2 previews interval set to 24 or 12 for each second of clip NOTE THIS IS ALSO THE FRAME PERIOD AT WHICH BIT RATE AND PSNR ARE UPDATED IN THE LCD PANEL AND IN THE TRACE FILE o XYZ gt RGB transform amp gamma activate real colors on your preview panel slightly decelerating the encoding speed e Other fig 38 f o Send mail when done if the encoding job takes a lot of time and you are far from your PC you can get informed by a summary email when the task is accomplished o SMTP data in order for the email to be sent you have to provide a valid SMTP server address and port in the form server_name port_number usually port number is 25 but you have to specify it anyway You can also customize the From and To fields of the email The received email will contain some details on the encoding task title reels size encoding duration etc and if enabled the log file of
87. td V1 0 2007 Online Available http www dcimovies com ISO IEC Standard ISO IEC 15444 1 2004 Information technology JPEG 2000 image coding system Part 1 Core coding system 2004 ISO IEC Standard ISO IEC 15444 1 2004 Amd 1 2006 Information technology JPEG 2000 image coding Core coding system AMENDMENT 1 Profiles for digital cinema applications 2006 103 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 104 Stan Cossette MPEG Interoperability Initiative Composition Playlist Specification Application Specification for Digital Cinema Packaging AS DCP V 2 4 July 8 2004 Stan Cossette MPEG Interoperability Initiative Delivery Media Representation and Segmentation Application Specification for Digital Cinema Packaging AS DCP V 3 4 August 24th 2004 Stan Cossette MPEG Interoperability Initiative Packing List Specification Application Specification for Digital Cinema Packaging AS DCP V 2 4 May 27 2005 Tim Ryan Subtitle Specification XML File Format for DLP Cinema Projection Technology Rev B May 12 2003 SMPTE Standard D Cinema Packaging Composition Playlist SMPTE 429 7 2006 October 34 2006 SMPTE Standard D Cinema Packaging Packing Playlist SMPTE 429 8 2007 June 25 2007 SMPTE Standard D Cinema Packaging Asset Mapping and File Segmentation SMPTE 429 9 2007 June
88. the encoding as an attachment fig 39 43 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface NOTE THE SMTP SERVER MUST NOT REQUIRE ANY SORT OF AUTHENTICATION OTHERWISE NO EMAIL WILL BE SENT LCD background colour Enable FFmpeg support EE FFmpeg folder C Program Files ffmpeg git Layout 12a I UPG White point chromatic adaptation Enable gamma headroom bypass r2a Facility DSPLab Rating label G Rating agency UNIPG Prompt on overwrite Create folders Custom assetmap amp volindex names r2a a Cee E XVZ RGB transform amp gamma EI Frame decode interval 12 Figure 38 The Preferences dialog View menu DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Hello this is DCP Builder running on 2 An encoding job is finished Clip title Big Buck Bunny Title BIG BUCK BUNNY_SHR 1_C_EN XX_INT Annotation BIG BUCK BUNNY SHR 1 C EN XX Reels 4 Stored in dcpXDCI checks Size 4260 3 MBytes Start time Tue Jun 07 12 48 02 2011 Stop time Tue Jun 07 13 08 15 2011 G 51 2K DSPL 20110607 UPG OV INT G 51 2K DSPL 20110607 UPG OV Please check the storage folder for the relevant files Regards DCP Builder on s Figure 39 The email received at the end of an encoding job This m
89. the trace file The shown trace is that obtained with the Sintel 2K movie frames 5 Eventually you can also specify a log file where all the logging is also copied into A sample log is as follows 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 07 06 2011 1 Trace panel GO GA CO CO PO P2 2 2 PD PD c4 c c D c4 CH CH c4 c Finalizing DCP 00 pls 02 00 00 02 Ole D 00 Compression thread starting Compression thread starting Compression thread starting Decompression thread starting Created new reel Created new reel Compression thread exiting Compression thread exiting Compression thread exiting might take a little time The trace panel fig 33 hosts a running history view of the DCP encoding process useful for quality check purposes The top portion of the panel plots the PSNR whereas the bottom portion plots the bitrate The bitrate plot hosts five different curves 5 http www sintel org 37 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface e 4K bitrate valid only if doing 4K differently it is set at 0 e 2K bitrate that is total for 2K or subtotal for 4K e Y component bitrate e Cxcomponent bitrate e Czcomponent bitrate Left clicking on each panel will pop up a small menu allowing to scale fit shift or fix the axes It is also possible to save a snapshot of every plot as
90. tichannel file from where audio can be optionally taken if the main file has not it Ex InputAudioFileName mysound wav InputXAudioFileName string The file path and name of auxiliary mono files from where audio can be optionally taken if the main file has not it Up to 16 channels can be mapped Ex 78 InputLAudioFileName InputRAudioFileName InputCAudioFileName InputLFEAudioFileName InputRSAudioFileName InputLSAudioFileName InputLCAudioFileName InputRCAudioFileName Input09AudioFileName Input10AudioFileName InputllAudioFileName Inputl2AudioFileName Inputl3AudioFileName onechannel0l onechannel02 onechannel03 onechannel04 onechannel05 onechannel06 onechannel07 onechannel08 onechannel09 onechannel10 onechannelll onechanneli2 onechanneli3 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Inputl4AudioFileName onechannell4 Input15AudioFileName onechannell5 Inputl6AudioFileName onechannell6 InputAudioLayout float Channel layout 1 0 72 2 0 5 1 7 1 or 16 Ex InputAudioLayout 2 0 Input text files InputTextFileName string The file path and name of a srt text subtitle file Ex DCDM section DCDMPicturePath string Folder path where TIFF files are optionally stored 72 1 0 is only supported by SMPTE packages 79 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface NOTE PPM FILES ARE STORED INDEED Ex DCDMPicturePath dcp dcdm tiff DCDMXmIPat
91. tion code h smtps smtp server name port smtpf smtp from smtpt smtp to sf search folder The parameters are i project file name accepts the input project file By default it is dcp builder sample dcb R registration code enter the received serial to remove the watermark smtps smtp server name port enter the name and port of a SMTP server used to send emails smtpf smtp from enter the From address of emails smtpt smtp to enter the To address of emails sf search folder folder where the ffmpeg executables are looked for Remember to terminate the path with a trailing slash or backslash h prints help and usage During encoding pressing will show a mini menu of commands available to the user 60 h prints help i prints information S prints information add a thread remove a thread q quits the encoding at the current point equivalent to pressing STOP in the GUI DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface EX Amministratore C Windows system32 cmd exe demo Release demo exe i bigbuckbunny dcb 61 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface buntu build mmlib trunk Help mmlib trunk LD LIBRARY PATI MultiMediaLib 1 4 August 1 2010 for Linux Compiled 16 24 14 Apr 5 2011 C 2009 2010 Giuseppe Baruffa DSPLab University of Perugia Supports the following external or internal libraries zlib v 1 2 3 3 C 1995 2004 Jean loup Gailly and Mar
92. tion on DCPs see the Technical aspects section DCP Creation Film producers and distributors generally rely on digital cinema encoding facilities to produce and quality control check a digital cinema package before release Facilities follow guidelines set out in the recommendations to ensure compatibility with all digital cinema equipment For bigger studio release films the facility will usually create a DCDM Digital Cinema Distribution Master A DCDM is similar to DCP only the frames are in either DPX or TIFF format and both sound and picture are not yet wrapped into MXF files The frames are then compressed with the JPEG 2000 algorithm and this step is denoted as DCDM A DCP can be encoded directly from a DCDM A DCDM is useful for archiving purposes and also facilities can share them for international re versioning purposes They can easily be turned into alternative version DCPs for foreign territories For smaller release films the facility will usually skip the creation of a DCDM and instead encode directly from the DSM Digital Source Master the original film supplied to the encoding facility A DSM can be supplied in a multitude of formats and color spaces For this reason the encoding facility need to have extensive knowledge in color space handling including on occasion the use of 3D LUTs to carefully match the look of the finished DCP to a celluloid film print This can be a highly involved process in which the DCP and th
93. to new threading model Removed support for JPEG inputs it did not work anyway Added support for VOB inputs and anamorphic pixels Changed gamma coding function internals now 10x faster Added multithreaded read of image sequences Added chromatic adaptation check box in preferences dialog Added DCDM creation bypass Optimized speed in gamma conversion and colorspace conversion using even SSE2 2011 05 01 DCP Builder v0 1 First version of the program if available 109 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Document history 110 Date Author Subject 2011 01 26 GB First draft of instructions manual 2011 02 12 GB Clean up 2011 03 11 GB Updated figures and added some more clarifications 2011 03 18 GB Many small additions and refinements Added a new parameter in project files 2011 04 16 GB New screenshots with better backgrounds Better comparison table from en wiki New formats support 2011 05 01 GB Switching from FFmpeg to Libav First public release 2011 05 02 GB Drafting version 0 2 2011 07 15 GB Final for version 0 2 2011 08 23 GB Drafting version 0 3 New style for bibliography 2012 02 03 GB Closing version 0 3
94. ts are renamed to names not containing either the words Bitstream or the word Vera This License becomes null and void to the extent applicable to Fonts or Font Software that has been modified and is distributed under the Bitstream Vera names The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by itself THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT PATENT TRADEMARK OR OTHER RIGHT IN NO EVENT SHALL BITSTREAM OR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INDIRECT INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE Except as contained in this notice the names of Gnome the Gnome Foundation and Bitstream Inc shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale use or other dealings in this Font Software without prior written authorization from the Gnome Foundation or Bitstream Inc respectively For further information contact fonts at gnome dot org 100 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Glossary This is a short list of terms and
95. u get an idea of how the screen is filled In the aspect ratio screen the black area represents the full projection matrix 2048x1080 for 2K or 4096x2160 for 4K the red area is the active projection area i e the actually encoded picture and the cyan area is the input video clip picture format fig 23 26 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Full possible container Input video clip area cyan area black Encoded projection area red Figure 23 The aspect ratio layout area Eventually for the more experienced people there is the option to completely bypass the DC gamma encoding and the digital headroom scaling Normally these options are disabled in order to enable them you must visit the Edit Preferences dialog Doing so the DCDM preparation is completely into your hands Figure 24 reports the difference in the DC gamma transfer function when the normalization constant is used or not the correct transfer function should be the red one DC transfer function Output 0 1 W O headroom With headroom 0 i i i i i i i i i 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 1 Input Figure 24 Normalized and un normalized DC gamma transfer function 45 Usually if you disable gamma amp headroom you should also set the colorspace to XYZ and the gamma to 1 0 in the Inputs panel 27 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Common aspect ratios Figure 25 pres
96. u want subtitles you can either burn them in or add them as XML files in CineCanvas format Add a SubRip srt subtitle file in the input field and choose the proper method of embedding e Select size and rates in the DCDM panel o 2K scope letterbox 24 fps and 48 kHz is the most common format Choose the best aspect ratio and boxing for your clip If you have subtitles choose the burn in method or the Interop XML font method the other methods are not fully tested and could not work Do not enable picture sound j2k or subtitle folders if you don t need a DCDM or DCDM Set global duration to 0 frames for encoding the whole clip Set reel size to O frames to have a single reel HINT IF YOU STORE THE DCP ON A FAT32 FORMATTED DISK MAKE REELS AND SET THEIR SIZE TO A VALUE LOWER THAN 2 GB o Set bitrate to a value lower than the standardized maximum 250 Mbps Values in the range from 100 to 180 Mbps generally produce a good visual result with a lower bitrate Values higher than 250 Mbps might not work on certain servers it s not standardized e Choose the characteristics in the DCP panel o Interop is the old standard but some servers still support only this whereas SMPTE is the newest one Use Suggest names to let the system fill automatically the other fields Select the folder where the DCP will be stored please check before that enough room is available in that disk Choose the ty
97. ve an email at the end o The HASH label is lit nearly at the end of the whole process The possibly multi gigabyte reel files are being scanned and their checksum is written in a set of xml files During this phase the timing labels are not working but the slider is just be patient and wait for finish for full features this step takes even 15 20 minutes depending on your HD and CPU speed o Do not stop or abort anything up to the blinking DONE label e f you want to make a short test press Stop when you want to finalize the DCP at the timecode shown in the LCD panel How to encode video clips Starting from version 0 3 it is no more possible to import in a straightforward way any video format Up to version 0 2 this was possible on the fly by using the FFmpeg Libav libraries 5 However this support has been discontinued for patenting reasons In fact even if FFmpeg or Libav were compiled in LGPL compatibility it means that a closed source program such as DCP Builder can use open source programs as external dynamically loaded library this does not relief one s responsibility to satisfy all the licenses for the involved patented technologies Most notably they are H 264 mp3 and MPEG 2 This support can now be available via separate install of FFmpeg which must be downloaded by you 57 Please note that some servers might refuse to play DCPs shorter than 1 second 58 http www ffmpeg org http www libav org
98. very bitplane is scanned in a zig zag fashion and the bit values are arithmetically encoded depending on their surrounding context i e the values of other bits and how much is significant the sample that contains the bit 69 If the upper partitioning level size does not allow having exactly these sizes they are cropped accordingly 72 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface MO arithmetic entropy coding The arithmetic coder is used to lossless compress the context data and bit values obtained during the fractional bitplane coding This coder is adaptive and can switch its operating context in response to changes in the bitplane contexts After coding the weight of the codeblocks is shown for the BBB frame in fig 55 Figure 55 Codeblock weight after arithmetic coding lighter colors denote that more bits are used to represent that codeblock Tier 2 lossy coding and codestream formation This third and last coding step reintroduces loss in reconstruction but only to meet a specified bit rate quality target The compressed data are organized into a so called codestream a particularly crafted sequence of bytes Layers and Post Compression Rate Distortion PCRD optimization An internal representation of how compressed bits influence the reconstructed image quality is built and the final bits are selected so as to maximize expected PSNR Bitstream packets and Tag Trees Codeblock data are written in a
99. way such as to allow progressive reconstruction during the decoding step This is achieved via a particular compression structure called tag tree 73 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Codestream markers The compressed data bitstream and headers are augmented with some general information on image size depth etc as well as with decomposition parameters and written into a codestream If you want to see how a codestream is internally done you can open a JPEG 2000 compressed image with opjviewer Encoding performance of DCP Builder The performance in terms of conversion time is not high do not expect to achieve an encoding rate higher than 1 5 2 fps on a quad core machine Just as an example in table 7 are given some of the processing speeds of DCP Builder The test source is the Big Buck Bunny movie 1920x1080 8 bit PNG pictures 5 1 FLAC audio channels The DCP is done in 24 fps 48 kHz SMPTE 5 1 channels HDTV format The chosen colorspace is SRGB The bit rate is set at 125 Mbit s The numbers are given for a single processing thread and are expressed in milliseconds The CPU is a Intel Quad Core i7 870 3 0 GHz The OS is Windows 7 64 bit The optimizations in v02 have been done mainly using a cleaner C syntax and the SSE2 instruction set 1 As you can well see even after optimization the heaviest processing is that of the JPEG 2000 compression which ultimately limits the speed of the program 70 http dspla
100. www dcpbuilder com 10 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface The direct download link is http dante diei unipg it baruffa DCPBuilder http www dcpbuilder com download The download folder is organized as e den o The folder may contain some short testing DCPs built with DCP Builder e docs o This folder contains general documentation and the PDF user manual e linux o This folder contains 32 and 64 bit installation packages for GNU Linux e macosx o This folder contains 32 and 64 bit disk images for Mac OS X e windows o This folder contains the 32 and 64 bit installers for Microsoft Windows Installation You must download the version that is most suited to your hardware and OS please note that 32 bit versions can be installed on 32 and 64 bit platforms generally but they do not necessarily provide the same degrees of freedom Please be careful when installing 32 and 64 bit versions at the same time alongside operation has not been tested Microsoft Windows Run the exe installer fig 4 and follow on screen instructions 11 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface Al Setup DCP Builder Basic Edition Welcome to the DCP Builder Basic Edition Setup Wizard This will install DCP Builder Basic Edition 0 3 on your computer Itis recommended that you dose all other applications before continuing Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup Figure 4 DCP Builder setup
101. you need to configure FFmpeg Since you are compiling by yourself and experimenting for personal use you can enable almost anything When you have tested this you have to recompile according to patent restrictions issued in your country Thus issue the configure command and let it run for some minutes gt configure prefix opt ffmpeg enable nonfree enable gpl disable devices disable doc disable ffplay disable ffserver enable w32threads enable memalign hack disable debug enable static disable shared At this point you can issue the compilation commands this can take a long time so please be patient and wait gt make clean amp make lines of compilation results gt sudo make install Now if no compilation errors appeared check inside the opt ffmpeg folder in the bin subfolder there will be all the required programs ffmpeg and ffprobe gt ls opt ffmpeg bin 57 DCP Builder 0 3 Graphical User Interface ffmpeg ffprobe You can now indicate this folder in program preferences Apple Mac OS X 58 Download the FFmpeg release tarball e g ffmpeg git 14d94a1 tar bz2 from its download page Using the terminal open the compressed archive and extract its contents to a folder e g tmp ffmpeg git 14d94a1 gt cd tmp gt tar zxvf ffmpeg git 14d94al tar bz2 Install the required compilation tools namely Xcode

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