Making Sense Of The SMPTE DCP Standard

October 29, 2018

Despite the fact that the industry adopted an internationally ratified SMPTE DCP standard nearly a decade ago, there remains widespread confusion and disagreement about what constitutes a universally accepted digital cinema package. If that sentence makes no sense to you, you’re not alone. For months the European Digital Cinema Forum with sponsorship from the International Union of Cinemas has been developing a web portal to address this problem. Their mission statement is, “To act as an informational resource for the industry on the SMPTE DCP and its operational use, and to provide a point of reference of on-boarding for those individuals/organizations willing to aid in the transitional process on a territory by territory basis.”

For anyone who is unfamiliar with these terms, the digital cinema format is a file-based framework that allows high-quality versions of motion pictures, called compositions, to be efficiently represented and played back on digital playback servers and projectors. The delivery of these compositions is packaged into what is known worldwide as a digital cinema package or its more common acronym, DCP.

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