Being an indie filmmaker poses many challenges. From concept to post, the road is packed with a multitude of necessary tasks to complete the film. I recently faced the challenge of encoding my own DCP (Digital Cinema Package.) A Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is a collection of digital files used to store and convey digital cinema, audio, image, and data streams. This post sprung from that experience. I had one DCP professionally encoded at Hermosa Beach Filmworks in California