Hi Carsten,
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:44:49 +0100
Carsten Kurz via DCPomatic <dcpomatic(a)carlh.net> wrote:
I am bringing this up on the list as I may not have
understood the
issue completely myself, feel free to comment...
I rarely do split video/audio projects, so never came across the
issue myself doing real work, but I remember we talked about it from
time to time already.
Consider the following situation: Someone wants to create a DCP from
content created at 25fps, he creates either a video or image sequence
with 25fps, and a split audio file with that timing reference as well.
Now, in DCP-o-matic he want's to create a 24fps version. It is not a
problem to instruct DOM to recalculate the video frame rate,
stretching the video in absolute length. But what about the audio
timing reference if I do NOT want to process the audio file
externally to 24fps? I should be able to tell DCP-o-matic 'use this
audio, but resample to a 24fps reference'. Actually I though that was
possible using the frame rate input box under 'Content'->'Audio' -
but it seems this is not possible. I can input '24' there instead of
'25' (as I would with the video), but nothing changes about the audio
sample rate?
At the moment, in your example, DoM would assume that the audio was
prepared for the same video frame rate as the video. Hence if you set
the DCP rate to 24 it would resample the audio assuming it had been
prepared for 25 fps.
Your suggestion about setting the video frame rate of the audio should
probably work though, so you can override this behaviour if you want.
The same question arises for subtitles: you need to know (or guess!)
what video frame rate they have been prepared for.
Does that make sense?
Kind regards,
Carl