ARRI ARRIQCP manual

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    Quality Control Pla yer f or Digital Cinema P ackages ARRIQCP[...]

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    2 ARRIQCP The ARRIQCP (ARRI Quality Contr ol Player) is a DCP (Digital Cinema P ackage) QC-Server designed f or use in Digital Cinema content production worko ws and offers quality assurance as w ell as analysis of the Digital Cinema mastering process. It is designed f or facilities creating Digital Cinema content and will bring security to the [...]

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    3 ARRI DIGIT AL INTERMEDIA TE SYS TEMS | | ARRIQCP n Play compositions and/or single track les with pr ecise transport control n Remote control via TCP/IP and RS-422 n T est JPEG Interop and SMPTE DCP + KDM for standards compliance n Vie w detailed DCP metadata n Edit CPL Entry P oint, duration v alues and CPL markers n Unencrypted HD-SDI/DVI-D [...]

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    4 Play Compositions Probably the most outstanding f eature of the ARRIQCP is its ability to playback DCPs directly to an HD or 2K monitor ov er Dual Link HD-SDI or DVI-D, pr oviding an initial rst stage quality check without using a Digital Cinema projector . This feature represents a pre viously missing link in DCP creation and will mean facili[...]

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    5 ARRI DIGIT AL INTERMEDIA TE SYS TEMS | | ARRIQCP Satellite Mode The ARRIQCP can be contr olled via remote control ov er TCP/IP . From the ARRIQCP SA TELLITE client one could playback individual CPLs on remote controlled ARRIQCPs (f or example for contr olling screening rooms). At the same time media can be ingested into the centralized AssetStore[...]

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    6 Security The ARRIQCP is equipped with an in visible watermark that is embedded into the picture. In case of unauthorized copy , the date, time and location of a security leak can be fully traced; a visible watermark is also superimposed o ver the picture for added security . A KDM for the ARRIQCP is still required for playback of en- crypted mate[...]

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    7 ARRI DIGIT AL INTERMEDIA TE SYS TEMS | | ARRIQCP T echnical Da ta Operating System CentOS Redhat EL 4.7 Processor AMD Opteron 2214 Memory 4 GB DDR2 DIMM Image Decoding DCI JPEG2000 2K or 2K lay er out of 4K, 12-bit 4:4:4 XYZ/RGB @ 250Mbit/s DCI 3D JPEG2000 48p via Dual Link HD-SDI, 4:2:2 (YCbCr / YCxCz) MPEG-2 MXF Interop, 8-bit 4:2:0 YCbCr @ 80 [...]

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    Thi s ARR IQC P pro duc t br oc hure (D 5.1 48 47 .0) i s pub lish ed by A rn old & R ich ter Ci ne Techni k, D ec emb er 0 6, 20 08 © A RRI /20 0 8 Techni cal d at a and of fe rin gs ar e subj ec t to ch ang e wit hou t noti ce. A ll r ight s re ser ve d. Wi tho ut any w arr ant y. Not bi ndin g 12/2 00 8. A RRI is a r egi ste re d tra dem ar[...]