Big issues trying to add subtitles

[Yakobb]

So I've created a DCP in DaVinci Resolve for a 10 minute short.

The DCP is about 16GB - It's 2K DCI Flat at around 140Mbps.

I just want to add two SRT subtitle files to the package without re-encoding. I created a nw project, imported the DCP, added the two srt files. "Re-encode JPEG2000 data" is deselected in the DCP tab, but when I go to Make DCP it takes half an hour and spits out a 700GB file!

Any Ideas?

I am using 2.18.9. This happens on both my macs, the M4 (Seqouia) and the Intel one (Sonoma)

[carl]

Maybe you can attach the metadata.xml from your project folder, or email it to carl@dcpomatic.com

[Yakobb]

Thanks for the reply, I eventually realised that it was because the starting timecode in DaVinci was set to 10:00:00:00, and this led to DCP-O-Matic trying to make a 10 hour DCP from this, based on the subtitle timecodes.

After exporting again from DaVinci with the project starting timecode set to 00:00:00:00 everything works as expected, and the export with added subtitles takes around 30 seconds.

[IoannisSyrogiannis]

It's good practice, when adding subtitles (or any essence), to check how it looks on the preview window.