30 May
2013
30 May
'13
11:10 a.m.
Hi Karim,
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci wrote:
Hello all,
I recently tried to cut a bit from the beginning an end of an mp4 source file
in DVD-o-matic, which did not seem to work correctly.
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?
How is this trimming supposed to work? What do I have
to enter into the
fields to get 750 frames cut from the beginning and 251 frames cut from the
end? Any help is appeciated.
You are doing the right thing, but something is going wrong with
DVD-o-matic....
Best
Carl