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The Facility field is useful as a record of which company packaged a given DCP. Facility names are abbreviated to 2–3 characters. The codes are determined by the individual facilities and can be changed at any time. The facility codes in the table below are added upon request by each company. New facilities are added often. This on-line registry is always the most up to date.

If you want to add your facility to this list:

  1. Pick a 2-4 letter code that IS NOT BEING USED by another facility
  2. Enter your information on THIS FACILITY APPLICATION FORM
  3. Give us a few days and check the list to see if you have been added AND IF THE INFORMATION IS CORRECT! (It’s a manual entry process and sometime we mess up.) If it needs correcting or has not posted, please email digitalcinemanaming@isdcf.com.

NOTE 1: If we happen to be on vacation it may take up to 2 weeks to add your facility. Sometimes you get same day service!
NOTE 2: Once entered (and used) Facility Codes are not removed. We can deprecate codes. We won’t delete any code or re-assign to a different facility.

Questions? Contact digitalcinemanaming@isdcf.com. If you don’t hear back in a week, please ping us again (vacations sometimes loose requests).

NOTE: This is NOT an endorsement or qualification of these facilities. These facilities have self-added themselves to the list. This list is provided for convenience only.

The Facility is listed at //Reel[1]//CompositionMetadataAsset/Facility[1]

<CompositionMetadataAsset xmlns=”http://www.smpte-ra.org/schemas/429-16/2014/CPL-Metadata”>
  …
  <Facility>C19</Facility>
  …
</CompositionMetadataAsset>

The Facility may also be listed at //Issuer[2]

<CompositionPlaylist xmlns=”http://www.smpte-ra.org/schemas/429-7/2006/CPL”>
  …
  <Issuer>C19</Issuer>
  …
</CompositionPlaylist>

  1. According to SMPTE 429-16, this field is intended to contain “the organization that created the Composition Playlist”. ↩︎

  2. According to SMPTE 429-7, this field is intended to contain “the entity that created the Composition Playlist”. ↩︎

Special Exception Note: For CTTs where the Facility is unknown and/or unspecified, the proper DCNC code is NUL. This code is only for usage within the CTT. If using 429-16 metadata, the absence of the <Facility> element shall denote the facility is “Unspecified”.