Digital Cinema Package (DCP)

Here is how this works in practice. We deliver Digital Cinema Package creation through mastering facilities equipped for DCI-compliant theatrical output. Our team conforms the finished master to digital cinema specs — resolution, frame rate, colour space and audio channel setup — and encodes the package so it plays flawlessly on any DCI-compliant cinema server. We produce encrypted DCPs with KDM running for commercial releases and unencrypted DCPs for festival submission.

We create the version variants a distribution plan needs. This includes 5.1, 7.1 and Atmos audio, many subtitle and language tracks, and alternate aspect ratios. Each package is validated on cinema playback systems before delivery. We set up the full process from master ingest through QC, locking the tech specs to the exhibitor or festival need before encoding starts.

Here is the short of it. Austria's DCP work is closely tied to a strong festival and theatrical culture. The Viennale, the Vienna Global Film Festival running since 1960, and the Diagonale in Graz, the festival of Austrian film, both need DCI-compliant packages for submission, as does the Österreichischer Filmpreis and the wider global festival circuit.

Here is the breakdown. Vienna's finishing sector prepares DCPs for domestic features and global co-productions backed by the Österreichisches Filminstitut and its ÖFI+ rebates, the same infrastructure behind Oscar-recognised Austrian cinema such as Stefan Ruzowitzky's 'The Counterfeiters' and Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning films. German and English versioning, with subtitle tracks for the German-language market and global release, is built into the DCP set.

From festival-ready packages to encrypted commercial releases, Austria's DCP infrastructure pairs DCI compliance with the version running theatrical distribution demands.