DCP FORMAT
DCP FORMAT A DCP has a set of six files — one picture, one sound and 4 metadata files cpl etc — which may be read by a cinema server. Now, let’s say we've a 16:9 short film which has been mastered by the colourist as a 1080P ProRes file and therefore the re-recording mixer has supplied six WAV files containing the individual sound channels of the finished 5.1 surround sound mix. To complicate things a touch , let’s say we shot the film within the UK at 25fps. Many attributes of this hypothetical film — its ratio , resolution, codec, colour space, frame rate and file format — will got to be altered to form a compliant DCP which can play in any digital cinema.