This option sets the ‘starting point’ for the file picker when adding content to a project. It can either be wherever you last looked for content, or always in the same place as the DCP-o-matic project folder.
If this checkbox is unticked, the full filenames of content files will be stored in the DCP-o-matic project. This means that if you move your project around, the content files will still be found. This is useful if your content files are stored in their own place, unrelated to where you make your DCP-o-matic projects.
Ticking this box means that content filenames will be written relative to the DCP-o-matic project. This means that you can move your project and content files to a different place and your content will still be found. This is useful if you keep DCP-o-matic projects alongside the content they use.
If Find integrated loudness, true peak and loudness range when analysing audio is ticked, DCP-o-matic will do extra work when analysing audio. Leave this ticked if the extra parameters are useful to you. If not, untick it to make audio analysis faster.
If this checkbox is ticked an audio analysis will be run whenever content is added that contains sound.
The Check for updates on startup option, if enabled, will tell DCP-o-matic to check on dcpomatic.com to see if there are any newer versions of DCP-o-matic then the one you are running. If so, a dialogue box will open with a link to download the new version.
The Check for testing updates as well as stable ones option will also check for test updates as well as those that are formally ‘released’.