In this 2 Part episode we talk to Brian Coogan of White Dog Green Frog (www.whitedoggreenfrog.com) a web Hosting and Website development company with specific services for Cinema exhibition.

In this video we cover;

1. What you should expect from a website.
2. How easy it is to sell tickets from your website.
3. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and how to work with Google and showing up in  SEARCH.
4. How Mobile fits into all this
5. and finally how your website and social networking can work together.

Click here to download the powerpoint presentation Brian presented at this years ICAA conference.

Today I cover the KDM or Key Delivery Message, used to UNLOCK a DCP so it can be played in the cinema.  I cover how it works and how secure it is.

I recommend distributors view this Video as so they have a better understanding of the technology they are now using and how secure it is.  It has never been better for them in terms of security.

As a cinema goer, I recommend you also check this out as it shows you how serious content protection is for the Movie industry.  The technology to catch those who try to film of screen is amazingly sophisticated.

Recently here at digitAll the company I part own released the dcpPlayer (Available now as demo and purchase at www.digitall.net.au **Obvious self promotion**)       A cool feature of the dcpPlayer is the ability to view 3D content.  In this video, I do a quick demonstration of different methods available, Side by Side, Above and Below and Anaglyph for example.

dcpPlayer is a great tool for playing 3D content based on a world wide (Soon to be SMPTE) standard the DCP. Something I feel the non-cinema 3D world needs.  I have seen many hacks to get 3D going for niche applications.  Now with the DCP, creators can make 3D content and know it can be taken to any part of the world and it just works.

Today we have a close look at what makes up a DCP or “Digital Cinema Package”.  I will describe the files found on the CRU Hard drives used to distribute the digital files to your cinema.

This includes describing how a DCP is self verifying.  Can contain multiple CPL’s or Composition Playlists, (Ie a playlist of video and audio essences that make up the Film)

The PKL or Package List, a file that tells us what makes up a CPL and all the checking data to make sure every byte is present and accounted for.

Finally I talk about how we have full DCP’s and partial DCP’s and explain how that all works.