DCP-o-matic and .MOV
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:20 am
Good evening everyone. I'm Gerry and my wife is a first-time producer of short-form documentaries. Her bi-lingual documentary (total length 5:14) has been selected to be shown at a film festival but they require DCP. Even though I a broadcast engineer, I've NEVER heard of DCP so I'm taking a crash course in this file format.
Anyway, we called Simple DCP in Culver City and they want almost $200 to convert the file and it's not even 6 minutes long!. I've downloaded the MAC version of DCP-o-matic and it runs fine on my old early 2008 Mac Pro (24 GBs of RAM). When I try to load the .mov file into DCP-o-matic the file name is grayed out. The .MOV video structure is Apple ProRes 4-2-2, 1280 x 720, 59.94 FPS and was cut on the latest version of Final Cut Pro.
So, why is it grayed out in the file open dialog box?
Thank you in advance,
Gerry
Anyway, we called Simple DCP in Culver City and they want almost $200 to convert the file and it's not even 6 minutes long!. I've downloaded the MAC version of DCP-o-matic and it runs fine on my old early 2008 Mac Pro (24 GBs of RAM). When I try to load the .mov file into DCP-o-matic the file name is grayed out. The .MOV video structure is Apple ProRes 4-2-2, 1280 x 720, 59.94 FPS and was cut on the latest version of Final Cut Pro.
So, why is it grayed out in the file open dialog box?
Thank you in advance,
Gerry