UI part in 1608

Hmm, another GUI option? Why not just shift the beginning of content by a couple of frames, which is easy to do?

The only server I know of that has issues with this is the long phased out DSS200 (and only some hardware revisions).

I am not sure if it is a good idea to tackle this problem with dedicated GUI options in DCP-o-matic, as there are other means to accomplish it.

This usually is only a problem with preshow content or festival entries. One option would be to add black with existing methods, or, simply rewrap the content to 24fps.

• Carsten

Hi Carsten.

It's easy to add black frames on start of a DCP by shifting the Position of the content. But it's not possible to add them to the end at present, except by manually adding a 1-frame long video file as a 2nd piece of content.

By the way Carl, I've found my own way around this now - programmatically adding a single frame of black to the DCP-o-matic timeline - which works fine for me. So please don't implement this on my account. If you think it'd be useful to others too, great, but I also take Carsten's point about adding complexity to the UI.

Yeah, I think having a short piece of black or silent audio ready for this would be the best way. Personally, I guess I can deal with many more options in DCP-o-matic, but even with the simple/full GUI choice now, we have to think towards the average user. And unfortunately, enabling DCP-o-matic for all DCP features already made the GUI a lot more complex than it was in the early days. The trouble for many entry level users is to tell 'optional' or irrelevant choices from mandatory or important choices.

Personally, I would love to see some 'smart' options within the existing GUI elements. E.g. adding a 'negative crop value' would 'add' black (e.g. for letter/pillarboxing). Negative Trimming under 'Timing' would add black frames to head or tail...

• Carsten