The Post Factory has been part of London’s post production landscape since 1999. We’ve worked across broadcast, independent film, music video and online — but for the past decade, we’ve focused almost exclusively on what we do best: Digital Cinema Packages.
That focus matters. DCP is a specialist discipline. The gap between a DCP that meets the technical specification and one that actually works correctly — in every cinema, on every server, for years after it was made — is filled with knowledge that only comes from doing this every day and caring about the detail.
We check incoming video levels. We verify frame rate and scan type. We measure audio loudness with a Dolby meter. We check channel assignment on every 5.1 file. We watch credit rolls for judder. We verify checksums. We name files correctly to the ISDCF convention. We populate SMPTE metadata. We test the DCP before it leaves us.
Not because we’re required to. Because that’s what it means to do this properly.
Our clients range from independent short filmmakers at their first festival, to the BBC Natural History Unit requiring 4K native DCPs for premiere events. What they have in common is that they need a DCP to work — in a cinema, in front of an audience, without problems.
We’re based in Tulse Hill, London. We work with major cinema chains for event screenings and premiere work. We are a festival partner. We have Dolby cinema servers for testing.
Our team have been working in post production since the late 1990s, and have been making DCPs since the format was introduced to UK cinemas.
Our director James presents The Post Factory’s YouTube series on DCP — a comprehensive publicly available resource on digital cinema packaging for independent filmmakers in the UK.
We author on professional DCI-compliant encoding systems with maintained and monitored signing certificates. We measure audio with a Dolby meter. We use Nugen Halo for 5.1 upmixing.
We have Dolby cinema servers for testing — so when we talk about how a DCP behaves on a server, we’re talking from direct experience.