28 Jul
2015
28 Jul
'15
1:54 p.m.
Hi Carsten,
I can't think of a reason not to make it possible to split content into
its constituent parts, and I don't think it would complicate the UI or
the back-end particularly. I'll put it into mantis.
I understand the arguments against this sort of thing from a
feature-creep point of view. The main temptation to allow it, from my
point of view, is that it allows editing without a
decompression/re-compression cycle, which is appealing.
That said, I'm sure the UI for doing such edits is better in real video
editing software than it is in DOM.
Regards,
Carl
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:50:31 +0200
Carsten Kurz via DCPomatic <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net> wrote:
Hello there,
I played around with the DCP import feature of v2. I know quite a few people would love
to be able to edit out certain passages of trailers, etc. - e.g. a trailing 'in
3D' or 'from Dec 5th'. This can be done, but with the current implementation
only for both audio and video tracks of a DCP. Very often it would be necessary to do a
split edit, apply different trim points to video and audio track. This can only be done in
DCP-o-matic when importing the audio as a separate file. Now it is possible to extract an
audio.MXF to a multichannel WAV file (DCP-o-matic will not read audio from an MXF file
currently, as it is trying to find video in it). But maybe there is a way to dettach the
audio track of a DCP so that it appears as a separate content? I know this leads to the
discussion what DCP-o-matic is and should be capable of. But my intention is not to boost
it's capabilities to a full fledged editor, but to make the most of the existing GUI
with simple actions.
- Carsten
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