From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing

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Rendering for theatrical screenings

Rendering for theatrical screenings - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing

Rendering for theatrical screenings

- [Instructor] When rendering for your own theatrical screenings, there are three common formats that I've seen. For older or more independent theaters, you'll often find that using the ProRes 422 file we talked about in the last tutorial works just great. Some theaters also allow the film to be screened from a Blu-ray disc, and this is actually what we used for the screening of The Assurance at the SIFF Uptown theater in Seattle. We'll talk about how to create one of those later in this chapter. But increasingly, more and more theaters are converting to digital projection and prefer something called a DCP file, which is short for Digital Cinema Package. This is a digital file that is read by newfangled digital projectors, and is the way that most movies are screened in theaters today. It used to be that DCP files were kinda hard to come by and cost thousands of dollars to create, that'd be created by a professional post house that specialized in making them. And you know, I'm sure…

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