13 Apr
2013
13 Apr
'13
1:51 p.m.
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Carsten Kurz wrote:
Am 13.04.2013 um 14:30 schrieb Carl Hetherington:
During the encoding, the video MXF is created in the video folder. When
it is finished it is hard-linked into the DCP folder. It's one file on
the disc with two names, in effect. Deleting one or the other will not
delete the actual content; deleting both will.
On any system that supports hard links (almost
everything) the MXF in
the video folder should be hard-linked to the MXF in the DCP (i.e. they
look like two files but really they are just different names for a
single file). So there is no wasted space there.
You mean, after the encoding? That's how it WILL be, or how it already
is?
I assume, during the encoding, the video file is IN the video folder,
after the encoding, it GOES to the DCP folder and is hardlinked to the
video folder? Or is my understanding of hardlinks wrong? I see that after a canceled encoding, DVD-o-matic
neatly picks up where
it left, but other than that, what is the idea behind this video folder?
The names of the files in the video folder consist of all the parameters
of DVD-o-matic that affect the video output. If you change one (e.g.
crop, for example) a new MXF will be created. This is so that DVD-o-matic
doesn't get confused about encodes done with different parameters.
Best
Carl