Re: [DVD-o-matic] Trim Frames Feature

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Carsten Kurz wrote: Thanks! There's a bit of a complication here. I think there are two ways of doing the trim: 1. encode only the frames within the trimmed portion. 2. encode all frames and then mark the portion to play in the associated XML metadata. (1) would be preferable in most cases, except for the situation when: i) you encode a big DCP with a start trim of, say, 48 frames. ii) you decide that after all you want a start trim of 24 frames. Now with approach (2) this would just be a rewrite of the metadata, which is quick. For (1) I see no way of doing it other than encoding the new frames and then copying the entire remainder of the MXF from the old to the new. In other words, it's a trade off between making it quick to alter start and end trims (but slower if the trims are large, as unnecessary encoding will be done) and making it quicker to do big trims (as the unnecessary frames will not be encoded). Maybe it should be an option, or maybe it should just go for approach (2) in all cases. I'm not sure. Any thoughts? Regardless of all that, if the DCP you make with the current version does not *play back* with the trims in place, something else is going wrong! They don't, I think; I should add them. Best regards Carl