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Getting Started
2.6 How to Start a DCI Mastering
As soon as the preparations appropriate for your source material and
the general configurations are performed as described in this chapter,
you can start a DCI Mastering and create material for digital cinema
workflows. There are two ways to create such material:
How to use the digital cinema delivery tool to create DCPs or an inter-
mediate result is described in chapter “Digital Cinema Delivery Tool” on
page 3-1.
How to manually create a final DCP or an intermediate result with the
Edit Tool via finalizing is described in chapter “Manual Creation of a
DCP” on page 5-1.
digital cinema
delivery tool
With the digital cinema delivery tool you can
create MPEG or JPEG2000 compressed DCPs
or an intermediate state towards one. This tool
is the recommended way to create D-Cinema
material because it will lead you step by step
through the different configurations necessary
to create digital cinema content.
manual creation Every state towards a DCP or the final DCP it-
self can also be created manually via finaliz-
ing(s) with the Edit Tool. When using this way
to create digital cinema content, you are more
flexible regarding the created output. But, as
the name suggests, this way of creating digital
cinema material is not as intuitive and forth-
coming as when using the digital cinema deliv-
ery tool.
How to create a 3D/stereoscopic DCP is described in section
“Stereoscopic DCP” on page 6-2.