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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0002068DCP-o-maticDocumentationpublic2023-09-01 21:50
Reportertomashnyk@gmail.com Assigned Tocarl  
PrioritynormalSeveritytextReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Platform64 bitOSLinuxOS VersionUbuntu
Product Version2.14.37 
Summary0002068: Explain better export options
Description

The page about exporting: https://dcpomatic.com/manual/html/ch09.html# is short, I propose to replace this paragrapgh as follows:

"From this dialogue you can select the required output format, output file and, in the case of MP4, the quality of the output file by setting the CRF value*. The time needed to export and the resulting size depends among others on the resolution of the DCP (to change it, see here**) and on the CRF value. Reasonable CRF values CRF start at 17, but the resulting file size can be almost equal to the input itself. For non-distribution purposes, 28 or even lower can be a much saner choice that still offer good image quality."

*"CRF Value" should point to https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264#crf
** "here" should point to https://dcpomatic.com/manual/html/ch07.html

Steps To Reproduce

What I am still not sure about is what happens when I create a DCP from a source that is not that good, whether the exports at CRF 17 will be still as large. A discussion of the export dialog settings is here: https://dcpomatic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1682

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carl

2021-10-09 00:45

administrator   ~0004583

Thanks! These changes will be in the manual soon.

tomashnyk@gmail.com

2021-10-09 11:29

reporter   ~0004584

Thanks! the fourth word from the end should be "offers" and not "offer".

Bug History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-08-12 13:23 tomashnyk@gmail.com New Bug
2021-08-12 21:36 carl Relationship added child of 0001896
2021-09-24 23:46 carl Tag Attached: export
2021-10-09 00:45 carl Assigned To => carl
2021-10-09 00:45 carl Status new => resolved
2021-10-09 00:45 carl Resolution open => fixed
2021-10-09 00:45 carl Note Added: 0004583
2021-10-09 11:29 tomashnyk@gmail.com Note Added: 0004584
2023-09-01 21:50 carl Status resolved => closed