30 May
2013
30 May
'13
7:13 p.m.
Hi everyone,
Am 30.05.2013 13:10, schrieb Carl Hetherington:
Ah, that might be it - I didn't erase the old video dir in
the "project"
directory. I will retry that later tonight and get back to you on that.
Yes, it seems to happen every time. I just
did the following:
1. I created a new project named "BLUBB".
2. In the film tab, I loaded a dummy Quicktime movie (in this case, a
1080p film trailer from apple.com which I had lying around), and
waited for DVDom to analyze the file.
3. Then, I entered "500" in both the "Start" and "End"
fields next to
"Trim frames".
4. I selected "File"->"Save" to save the project.
5. I exited DVDom.
6. I started DVDom again and reloaded the project via
"File"->"Open".
7. Now, both fields contain the value "100".
I just remembered an important detail I forgot to mention with my first
try. I didn't generate the DCP right away, but rather saved the project
and loaded it later into your shiny new batch encode tool. If the trim
values aren't saved correctly, then it's no wonder that the first try
played the untrimmed video - the fields probably were reset to "100",
too (which you can't see in the batch encoder, as the values aren't
displayed).
Greetings from Germany
Kasi Mir
Hi Karim,
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci wrote:
Yes, exactly that. As Carsten was asking how I tested the results, by
the way: I'm using "Stereoscopic Player" to play the DCP packages.
On the subject of the trimming method - do I understand this correctly:
Does "encode all frames and play the subset" make a package of the whole
film and writes instructions into the metadata to only play the
untrimmed part? Or what does it mean exactly?
For my first try, I entered the start and end
frame numbers (as seen
below the video windows of DVD-o-matic) of the part I wanted to
encode and "encode all frames and play the subset" as method. This
resulted in the whole file being converted, just as if I didn't enter
anything.
When you say "the whole file being converted", what exactly do you
mean? Did the resulting DCP play back the whole source file, with no
trimming? For my second try, I entered the number of frames
I wanted to cut
from the beginning and the end of the video and selected "encode only
the subset". Now, the *audio* was cut at the right point, but the
video played from the beginning again.
I think that is due to a bug in DVD-o-matic which will be fixed in the
next version. You can work around it by deleting the "video" folder
within the film's folder before creating the DCP. DVD-o-matic
mistakenly tries to re-use the old video content (with no-trim) but
creates new audio. Additionally, I saved the project and loaded it
at a later time. Now,
the "Start" and "End" fields were set to "100" each, which
bears no
resemblance to what I had input into the fields before saving (750
and 251, respectively).
That is strange. Is that repeatable?