24 Nov
2014
24 Nov
'14
11:01 a.m.
Hi Manuel,
[snip]
Carl, maybe this is a good moment to ask for a
long-dreamed feature:
having the option to specify the destination for the finished DCP, and
not inside the projet directory. I understand that this breaks your cool
hardlink trick.
As you say, the question here is how to handle the video MXF. I guess the
best that could be done is create it in the destination folder, keep a
note of where it is, and then try to re-use the MXF from that folder if
a second transcode is requested.
And Carl, once started to ask for christmas presents
:) All that little
md5 files can be somehow packaged in a single file? It's a pain to
delete or move all of them. And quite usually dcpomatic-made DCPs are
mistakenly sent with the whole projet directory, making the ingest
insanely slow, as the server checks all that md5 as ingest candidate
files.
I think that's possible... I'll have a look.
Best,
Carl
Jim and any other one in a similar situation, please please! keep in contact.
Manuel AC
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Jim Dummett <j(a)dummett.org> wrote:
Hello all.
I'm doing tech on the London Short Film Festival which is January. We are
delivering all the films to cinemas on DCP this year (all 350 of them) and
will be using DCP-o-matic to use them.
We're holding a workshop tomorrow and Sunday where we're going to train 100
film-makers on DCP-o-matic, and then guide them through the process so that
by the end of the weekend, they will hopefully all have DCPs of their films.
I have a couple of last-minute questions that I would very much appreciate
it if anyone would be able to help with.
1. Encoding servers
We have a network of 30 iMacs, all networked together with Gigabit ethernet.
We intend to run dcpomatic_server_cli on all of those, with DCP-o-matic
itself running on the laptops of the film-makers and using the encoding
servers to do the heavy lifting.
a. Will it work with 30 encoding servers?
b. What happens if two instances of DCP-o-matic try to send jobs to the
encoding servers simultaneously? Is it first-come-first-served and whoever
submits their job first gets control of all the encoding servers until their
job is complete? Or do the encoding servers get shared out between different
jobs so multiple jobs can run concurrently? Or, terror-of-terrors, will the
whole thing crash?
2. Best version to use
How stable is v1.76.13 likely to be? Or should we use v1.76.0?
I've been told that some issues with colour space conversion are being
resolved in recent test releases. Is v1.76.13 going to give a better result
in terms of colour than the 1.76stable?
Sorry for the barrage of last-minute queries. I hope someone may have some
pointers?
Many thanks,
Jim
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