DCP is the new widely accepted standard for digital delivery and digital screening of feature film. The content is protected from illegal copying and distribution by using keys connected to the venue and time for screening.
At Shoot&Post we have already had the opportunity to deliver several projects as DCP. Mostly commercial, trailers and stereoscopic 3D content.

We see now that even feature film are starting to be distributed as DCP as well as 35mm prints. For Swedish producers with relatively small numbers of prints this means an economic revolution in feature film production.
The best technical result as well as best economic solution is to do the grading and DCP encoding without mastering out to tape as an intermediate master. This can be done in a postproduction house with a file based workflow such as ours.