Play your DCP as a DCP without leaving your studio!
QuVIS DCPPlayer2™ is an Linux, MacOS and Windows application. It supports 2K and 4K Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) on standard display and audio computer peripherals. DCP frame rates of 24, 25, and 30 frames per second are supported.
DCP Player 2 for Linux is bundled with the Ovation III DCP player product.
Player2 decode performance is typically better on Player2 compared with the Mac only Player1 due to higher software efficiency, better thread utilization, and support of AVX2 instructions. This allows the potential for playing and displaying 4K DCPs at full resolution on upper mid-range computer systems. In addition, the layer discard option has been added to Player2. This option is the method used by theatrical digital cinema players to play 4K content to 2K projectors in theaters. Although using layer discard does not display full resolution, it allows playback, metadata, color and timing to be verified, and if the display used is 2K or HD there is no real reason to burden Player with a 4K decode. We have found that even a 2 core 4 thread i7-4250 in a Intel NUC can provide very creditable DCP playback using this feature.
Playback frame capture, slow and high speed playback, surround sound out to 8 channels, and optional mix-down are all supported
DCP mxf audio and video essence files in XYZ can now be imported correctly to Adobe and to some extent played by VLC player, providing some potential for Quality Control inspection. However, this ignores the DCP metadata files, so there is no verification of their content. VLC also has problems playing the JPEG 2000 encoded content in XYZ color in real time on all but the highest end systems, so inspecting audio/video sync is problematic.
Customer Reviews
Show Customer ReviewsI want to share with you a simple, yet amazing piece of software that I found. If you have been longing like me for a really user-friendly, easy-to-use DCP player for MAC, look no more!!! I recently acquired the new Mac DCP Player from QuVIS. It allows you to play a properly rendered DCP as easy as you would play a MOV file with QuickTime! And they priced it for just under $700…!
There are no complicated settings to mess with before you can get a stable play, in which video and audio are kept in sync, without stuttering (if your system complies with they recommended specs, which I find basic). I tested 3 other options, only one targeted for Mac, and non of them come even close. The performance is amazing!
I have successfully played several DCPs, generated by different encoders, without a problem. One of the BIG pluses for me is playing directly from my MAC, no need to have a separate PC laptop, or run Windows. The stability and performance of this product is simply OUTSTANDING, and nothing out there compares with it..!!!
Their current version plays the DCP in the sRGB color space (it auto converts the material from X’Y’Z’ to sRGB with an internal LUT), which means that you can preview it using your computer monitor. We can finally save the usual $500/click fee that the cinemas charge to preview your material for just 30 minutes. You can preview the entire DCP, as many times as you need it, after any adjustments you or your client requests.
From the user’s perspective, this is really a ground breaking product.
Here is the link: http://www.quivis.com/dcp-player-1-0/
I hope you find it as useful as I do!
From Jesus Garcia in Los Angeles, CA.
I had my content packaged into a DCP by a service company that used a Clipster for DCP packaging.
I wanted to carefully inspect the DCP for Quality Control (QC), and I wanted to take my time watching the playback.
An indie filmmaker like myself would prefer to avoid the high hourly rates of a digital theater and not feel rushed in the QC process.
I searched and found the QuVIS DCPPlayer software, and lo and behold! It saved my hide and money!
It was very convenient to prepare for the premiere and truly know I had excellent control over the quality of my DCP and the service provider!
Michael Boyuk from Toronto, Canada
Here is some background info on our journey to DCP support and the selection of your DCP Player.
I started this year doing a lot of research on DCP creation, as we moved from 35mm prints to digital deliveries.
As you know, supporting DCPs can be insanely expensive, so I am learning how to do this all myself to save money.
Our latest issue has been previewing the DCPs we produced. We had no easy way to preview and QC the final DCP!
This past weekend, I had a cinema tell me that a DCP that we sent was out of sync.
This was a horror as they had been playing it over the weekend and apparently they had just noticed ?!?!
The same DCP was playing at another cinema and they told me it was totally fine there.
I needed to bite the bullet and purchase a DCP player to see if the DCP was indeed out of sync or what the hell was going on!
I had tried many player evals which did not look very good. Stuttering and low display resolution. Display quality was so bad I really hated to spend my money this way!
Before I clicked BUY NOW for one of these other products, I did one more Google search, which brought me to an Apple support page in their communities. I saw the link for your software, and thought I would give it a whirl.
It was AMAZING! The image was perfect! No stuttering, no issues. Just a great looking preview of the film.
I tested my “out of sync” DCP this morning, and to my delight, the sync was correct. It was the theatre having an issue with one of their servers!
I am running the software on my laptop which is a MACBOOK PRO – 15-inch, Early 2011.
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
The software works fantastic on it. I am so totally pleased!
Now I can properly QC my DCPs before they head off to film festivals and cinemas across Canada.
No more worries! Many thanks!
