DCP MASTERING
DCPs made in Austin. Handed to you in person.
Every DCP includes a measured picture-and-sound report, and a person reviews your film before it leaves. A 2K short up to 15 minutes is $119. Drop off your master and pick up your drive in Austin, or download the DCP from anywhere.
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INCLUDED IN EVERY ORDER
Every DCP comes with a measured report.
Loudness in Leq(m) and LUFS, true peak, channel levels, dialogue balance, picture levels and frame checks, written up with the threshold beside every number. Each threshold says whether it is a published standard or our house rule. Forward it to the festival's tech team.
WHAT YOU GET
What every DCP includes.
A SMPTE DCP built to Bv2.1
Built to the SMPTE RDD 52:2020 profile, named to the ISDCF convention and checked against the profile before delivery.
The measured report
Picture, sound, dialogue, sync, subtitles and the DCP check, measured and written up in plain language.
A person's review
Films up to 40 minutes are watched through in real time. Longer films get a person at every flagged timecode.
Hand-off in Austin, or a download
Drop-off and pickup by appointment at no charge, with a walk through the report. Or a download link.
Twelve months of storage
We keep the DCP and the report for 12 months, with free re-downloads.
Fixed if we got it wrong
If a festival or theatre rejects the DCP for a technical error we made, and you tell us within 30 days, we fix it and deliver it again at no charge.
PRICING
What it costs.
Flat, published prices, set for Texas indie filmmakers. The measured report is in every DCP price. Prices exclude Texas sales tax.
Your film
Download
With a festival USB
With a CRU theatrical kit
Short, up to 15 min
$119
$164 (Festival-Ready Short)
$368
Short, 15 to 40 min
$149
$194 (Festival-Ready Short)
$398
Mid-length, 40 to 75 min
$4 a minute
add $45
add $249
Feature, 75 to 110 min
$325
$370 to 95 min, $390 above
$574
Long feature, 110 to 140 min
$375
$440
$624
Runtime
2K
4K (24 fps)
Up to 15:00
$119
$167
15:01 to 40:00
$149
$209
40:01 to 75:00
$4.00 a minute
$5.60 a minute
75:01 to 110:00
$325
$455
110:01 to 140:00
$375
$525
Over 140:00
$375 + $2.50 a minute over 140
$525 + $3.50 a minute over 140
Festival-Ready Short: the DCP, a 128 GB festival USB and an H.264 file for the festivals that screen files.
Turnaround: standard is 5 business days. Priority, 3 business days: +50%. Rush, 48 hours: +100%.
The percentage applies to service lines, never to drives, the keepsake or shipping.
Students and AFS members: 10% off service lines. Discounts do not stack.
No DCP yet? The measured report on its own starts at $99.
Festival Files (ProRes 422 HQ + H.264, report included) start at $129.
DELIVERY DRIVES
Drives sized to the film, yours to keep.
Every drive is sold outright, formatted for cinema servers, written, read back and labelled with the film's name.
Festival USB
A cast-metal SanDisk Ultra Luxe with a USB-A plug. $45 for 128 GB (a 2K DCP up to 95 minutes), $65 for 256 GB, $110 for 512 GB.
CRU theatrical kit
A CRU DX115 carrier with a 1 TB drive in a foam-lined case, for servers with a CRU bay. $249. A USB 3.0 MoveDock for Barco ICMP and Christie IMB-S4 servers is $249; tell us the server model and we will tell you whether you need one.
The keepsake
A laser-engraved drive holding a playable copy of your film, an archive copy of the DCP, the report and a README. $100. It opens on a Mac or a PC. It is a keepsake, so it never goes to the cinema. Extra copies for cast and crew: $80 (128 GB) or $95 (256 GB).
ADD-ONS
Captions, keys, trailers and versions.
Add-on
Price
Caption or subtitle track from your SRT or timed-text file
$50 short, $75 feature
Sundance caption pair: closed-caption and open-caption versions
$95 short, $125 feature
Captions made from your audio, corrected line by line by a person
$5 a minute + $30
Burned-in open captions
50% of the DCP price
Encryption with 5 KDMs (extra KDMs $10 each)
$75
Trailer DCP, up to 3 minutes
$65 with an order, $105 alone
Version file (alternate audio or a subtitle language)
$50
H.264 festival file
$25
ProRes 422 HQ + H.264
$45
Full real-time watch-through, films over 40 minutes
$1 a minute
Frame-rate conform to 24 or 25 fps
$50
"Short" means up to 40 minutes.Â
FILES IN, FILES OUT
Send it your way. Pick it up in Austin.
Your own link, a mailed drive or an Austin drop-off costs nothing. Our upload portal is $0.30 per GB with a $10 minimum. Pickup in Austin is free; hand delivery inside Austin is FREE; shipping is $30 in Texas and $40 to $50 out of state, insured.