Hi Jim
The thought of a Web based creation app is imho really interesting, Say at a company with users from different departments, but all on the same fiber network.
I'm thinking users could:
1. Upload the material for conversion (still/video/separate audio).
2. Create project and Input metadata (dcp name, kind, bitrate, etc)
3. Be able to choose Audio Analyse and get either just the peak or maybe even a graphical representation (like in DOM).
4. Choose to put the DCP in queue (that doesn't start until you tell it to) or encode it right away. (transfer DCP to FTP/SFTP)
Encoding would happen on local machines on the LAN or on just one machine. It would basically be a web frontend for DOM.
Is that somewhere in the ballpark of what you have in mind?
Best regards,
Jonathan
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:27:41 +0100
Jim Dummett via DCPomatic <dcpomatic@carlh.net> wrote:
> Hi Carl.
>
> > It looks like that is left over from before DCP-o-matic did better
> > guessing of ratio from the input size. It can probably be made
> > optional. Are you using a 1.x version
>
> Yes, I'm on v1.83.0. --content-ratio does have an effect, just not the
> effect I expected! It dictates the container (scope, flat etc). The
> --container-ratio argument isn't compulsory and I didn't try it.
It might make more sense if you did use --container-ratio as well; if
you don't specify it dcpomatic_create will set container_ratio =
content_ratio. I'm not quite sure why it does that ... sounds like
there is some tidying up needed.
[snip]
> By the way, cine-matic.com is an interesting concept. But as you say,
> the problem is the volume of data that has to go up to, and down again
> from the cloud. I'm kind of working on something similar - a web app
> that controls DCP creation, but my approach has been that the web app in
> the cloud only acts as command-and-control - the actual DCP-encoding
> happens on worker machines down here in the "real world", with big
> drives attached. So the video data never needs to go via the cloud.
I'm afraid your cine-matic job won't run at the moment; the backend
script is now out of date with the API of the cloud servers that I was
using and I haven't got around to fixing it.
Your creation app sounds interesting... what makes you want a web app
rather than a local app? Just so you can initiate DCP creation from
anywhere?
Cheers,
Carl
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