Clicking on the QuVIS icon at the bottom of the export dialogue in Media Encoder CC 2014 opens a page with the information I've pasted below. That said, I did an experiment with 1920 by 1080 23.976 source material and the free bundled software magically and beautifully 1) blew up my image slightly, cropping top and bottom (scale to fill) to fit the "flat" 1.85 DCP aspect, output at 24 frames, effectively speeding up and shortening the length of my program, and wonderfully converted the audio as well. The resulting DCP played in a DCP software player I've used previously to test professional DCPs. Now - learning to properly output to a working Linux drive from a Mac is a trick in and of itself, and that's where many are going to experience "fail" issues. All said, a great addition IMHO:
QuVIS Wrator 3.0 DCP encoder for Adobe AME 8.0
Finally, an easy to use Digital Cinema Packaging tool!
I am very pleased and excited to announce the availability of our Wraptor™ Digital Cinema Package (DCP) technology for Adobe AME 8.0.
This Wraptor™ technology is included standard in AME 8.0 and is intended to address independent media production and film school applications on both Windows and Mac OSX computer platforms. This package addresses the typical issues which can arise as people begin to utilize the DCP theatrical format. In the past. people using video equipment and a desktop work flows often encountered issues due to the differences in image size, aspect ratio, color calibration, frame rates, audio sampling rates, resolution, and audio channel assignment when producing theatrical DCPs. Wraptor™ and AME 8.0 work together to produce a very easy to use, high quality solution for these problems.
Image size
If you are producing theatrical content with correct DCI size and aspect ratios, it will be packaged as it is provided. If you have HD video content, 4×3 film scans, or some other format, it will automatically resized to fill the the specified DCP container. Note that this quality image resizing is a lot of computing, so enabling available graphics processing is advised.
Frame rate
Video gear generally operates at slightly lower or higher frame rates that the international standard for theatrical movie releases which is 24 frames per second. AME 8.0 and Wraptor team up to painlessly convert video and other content at 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97 and 30 frame per second into standard 24fps theatrical format.
Audio
Processing and converting audio sample rates and resolutions for a DCP often got a little tricky in the past, especially when frame rate conversion was also required. Adobe AME 8.0 and Wraptor™ team up to make this a painless process, supporting both stereo and 5.1 surround sound in the required 48 Khz, 24 bit per sample, format.
Color
The DCP format can support a very large color space and originally most studio theatrical features were mastered in the P3 color space, which is larger than the video standard. However, the BT709 video and computer color space can also yield beautiful theatrical results when properly utilized, and is becoming common even for high end applications. QuVIS worked on color calibration for this release with a major movie post production group to make sure that current studio expectations were achieved for a BT709 work flow. The results of this package are now as good or possibly even better than achieved by some of the highest priced authoring equipment available. Note: Color calibration work was not complete in time for the initial AME8 release, so please make sure to get the latest update of Wraptor™ before doing critical color work.
Encoding quality and efficiency
QuVIS was the original developer of wavelet based compression technology for theatrical distribution and provided all of the wavelet based encodings of major theatrical releases for many years, starting in 1999 with Toy Story II. The Quality Priority Encoding method, QPE™, QuVIS developed provides the most efficient encoding method for DCPs currently available. The encoding quality level for the AME 8 Wraptor package is fixed at the same level selected by several of the major movie studios for their theatrical releases. Be assured that if your content is spectacular, the resulting DCP will be as well.
Speed of operation
We focused primarily on ease of use and image quality for this release, but we are happy to see that speed of operation is still quite good. For content which is in the desired size and aspect ratio, roughly real time processing can be achieved by a medium high end computer, and higher end systems can easily be faster than real time. Even a low end system can provide useful DCP packaging performance. If frame size and rates are converted, the time for conversion processes dominates the processing time.
We are proud to offer this new tool to the independent film maker.
Sincerely,
Kenbe D. Goertzen
CTO, QuVIS Technologies, Inc.