Slideshow in .MOV file format slides out of time

[SevastopolLV426]

All,

I wonder if y'all could help me with a particular issue I've been having. We have a slideshow that has been exported in a .MOV file that I'm trying to turn into a DCP. When I turn it into a DCP the slides, which go at a slow pace through the slideshow, go extremely fast through the slideshow. Oddly the video is still the same length (15min), the slides just flip through at a high speed like it won't stay on each slide the way it should.

Carl suggested the following:

A work-around might be to transcode your file to another format with something like Handbrake, or export in a different format from whatever you made the slides in.

I wonder if anyone has experienced this issue and if you came up with a workaround that worked in the end?

Thanks so much!

[carl]

This might well be fixed in the current test version if you want to try that. It has much better support for non-constant frame rates in source files.

[Carsten]

Slideshows are often exported in weird, space saving codecs, dynamic frame rates, etc. Could be that DCP-o-matic's default handling of this file format causes problems. Hence the suggestion towards a different intermediate format, which might deliver a straight constant frame rate file.