Specifications

6-3
Miscellaneous
6.3 Merging DCPs
You can merge two or more DCPs to a single DCP. This way you can
include in one DCP delivery not only the content of the feature film but,
for example, trailers, advertisements or different versions of audio or
subtitles.
The following example demonstrates how to include two versions of
audio in one DCP:
y Create a DCP as described in this document.
y Next carry out the steps as described in section “Modifying a DCP”
on page 5-6 and do the following to modify the loaded DCP (carry
out the other steps as described):
– In the timeline of the CLIPSTER Edit Tool replace the audio reels
with the ones that provide the other version.
– In the finalize dialog enter another file name for the newly gen-
erated files.
This will create a new DCP at another location and all unchanged files
will be copied while the changed ones (in this case audio) will be given
a new name and rendered anew. New versions of the extra files are cre-
ated as well. Once this is done, you can start merging the two DCPs:
y Copy the newly created audio files to the original DCP.
y Copy the new CPL, PKL and KDM files to the original DCP.
Once the new DCP files are copied to the original DCP, you have to edit
the Asset Map of the original DCP to include references to the copied
files as well:
y Adapt the Asset Map (file ASSETMAP) of the original DCP: Copy
the new entries of the audio reels as well as of the extra files (CPL
Please note that the current procedure is meant as a work-
around only. It requires the manual editing of an Asset Map. A
more convenient merging of DCPs is planned for a future CLIP-
STER version.
When doing the following steps no files should be overwritten
in the original DCP. If you receive a warning that files will be
overwritten, something may be wrong. Then review and
check the files that you want to copy as well as the way they
were created.