I decided to use computer rather than set-top players for such jobs for better sound quality with cost-effective high quality pro DAC’s through USB or Thunderbolt. Except DCP, all other video materials, such as all video formats Shotcut supports, and DVD, Blu-ray, etc. In fact, I tested 2012 iMac as a DCP server and learned that good enough for public presentation.

On my setup, I use 2012 iMac with Blackmagic Mini Monitor through Thunderbolt, but I have almost given up home theater preamps as DAC, because even the DAC quality of high-end models is pretty lousy comparing to moderate level pro gears. I encountered another difficulty with this solution. We still rely on the heritage from the (Broadcasting) “Video” technology for solid motion piture presentation in various reasons. Graphic card playout may be the ultimate future of any video playback since it is the fundamental implementation of graphics on computers, but not quite suitable for most stable video playout device yet. Shotcut is the one I have been looking for. What a surprise! VLC was a contender, but it is not practically ready for functioning on Mac platform. Today, I happened to meet Shotcut while searching for a player for Blackmagic output device. while computer screens are usually 2.2 gamma 8 bit.New to this forum, but really impressed with your development! Your DCP will look and sound different in a movie theatre than on your typical PC. They need fast computers, Both can play 2K DCPs on a modern quad-core CPU PC.

In Davinci Resolve you can enable P3 in the viewer and view DCPs in P3 colorspace on newer Macs. And can export DCPs to Prores Quicktime files with P3, rec709, or custom color/gamma encoding.īoth can play DCPs with offsets on audio and video and reels. You could use the trial version of Easydcp Player (It plays only the first 15 seconds of a DCP) to check if the DCP loads correctly, the colors are OK, and even do a file hash check.īoth Davinci Resolve and Easydcp Player supports Interop/SMPTE DCPs.

These can be used to check the DCP for some common problems or to screen the DCP on non-DCI projectors. Only Easydcp player can show the subtitles in DCP with interop/SMPT XML MXF subtitles.

In Resolve you can use the built-in Kakadu decoder or the Easydcp Plugin to play dcps.Įasydcp player and the Easydcp plugin in Resolve support playing encrypted DCP with a DKDM. Both Easydcp Player and Davinci Resolve Studio can play DCPs and lets you lower the quality settings so you can play them on slower computers.

Dcp player for mac