The Digital Cinema Naming Convention is a voluntary industry recommendation, designed to provide human readable information. It defines how CPLs can be named.
The Digital Cinema Naming Convention has two primary objectives:
- to make as much information visible as possible, and
- to display the information in a specific order — in assigned fields — so theatres will know where to look for specific information.
To achieve these ends, most of the information is abbreviated — including the movie title if necessary — and most of the abbreviations are standardized.
See also: http://isdcf.com/dcnc/