DCP Gateway checks every DCP for playback-breaking errors before it ever reaches your projection booth, so your festival stops burning staff hours on manual inspection.
Most festival submission errors never show up until the projector rolls: broken picture reels, audio mixed for the wrong channel layout, subtitle tracks that silently fail to load, malformed metadata that a laptop preview never catches. By the time your team finds it, it's the night of the screening.
Black or corrupted reels, wrong frame rate, non-conformant JPEG2000 encoding that plays on a laptop but not a DCI server.
5.1 mixes routed to the wrong channels, or dialogue buried entirely: mistakes made by filmmakers mixing without theatrical specs in mind.
Missing subtitle reels, sync drift, or caption tracks that fail to ingest on the server your festival actually runs.
Malformed CPL tags, missing markers, SMPTE vs. Interop mismatches: the invisible stuff that silently breaks otherwise-fine files.
DCP Gateway sits between your submission portal and your projection booth. Filmmakers upload their DCP metadata (or run a small local utility, so there are no massive file transfers and no storage costs on either end), and we run a full conformance check against SMPTE Bv2.1 and Interop standards.
You get a clear pass/fail report per title, days before your screening. Not an hour before.
See how it worksSMPTE Bv2.1 complianceInterop conformanceCPL metadata integrityFrame rate & encodingAudio channel mappingSubtitle/CCAP tracksKDM validity (encrypted DCPs)
Studio DCPs already have budget for professional mastering and QC. We're built for the gap underneath that: independent filmmakers who can't justify a full DCP mastering house, and the festivals who end up cleaning up the mess when those films don't play right.
Put a validation gate in front of your submission pipeline. Every DCP is checked before your team ever touches it, for a few dollars a title rather than the cost of a staff inspector's time.
Learn more →Didn't pass the gate? Get a plain-English report on what's wrong, or let us wrap and fix your DCP outright without paying mastering-house prices.
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