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authorCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-01-28 23:10:22 +0000
committerCarl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>2019-01-28 23:10:22 +0000
commit0317705d1031d4f529a99b26034a8c9ab7f72ba1 (patch)
tree1530a6073f6b71973c140c1085a344f0955776c2
parent1409af06f789ee1a832e61ed722cc48ed18f89f3 (diff)
Export in the manual.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml39
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/screenshots/export.pngbin0 -> 23160 bytes
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/Makefile b/doc/manual/Makefile
index 8d9ee9149..8e19040b7 100644
--- a/doc/manual/Makefile
+++ b/doc/manual/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SCREENSHOTS := file-new.png video-new-film.png still-new-film.png video-select-c
calculate-audio-gain.png add-file.png dcp-tab.png colour-conversion.png \
prefs-kdm-email.png prefs-general.png prefs-tms.png \
prefs-advanced.png prefs-defaults.png prefs-servers.png prefs-keys.png \
- making-dcp.png filters.png video-tab.png audio-tab.png subtitles-tab.png timing-tab.png \
+ making-dcp.png filters.png video-tab.png audio-tab.png timing-tab.png \
audio-plot.png audio-map-eg1.png audio-map-eg2.png audio-map-eg3.png kdm.png \
kdm-creator.png
diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
index cc19d9ebf..0e3a9a7dd 100644
--- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ to encode a single frame which it can then repeat.
<!-- ============================================================== -->
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en" id="ch-manipulating-existing-dcps">
<title>Manipulating existing DCPs</title>
<para>
@@ -2065,6 +2065,43 @@ from the timeline is also preserved.
</chapter>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<chapter xml:id="ch-export" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+ <title>Export</title>
+
+ <para>
+ As well as creating DCPs from the content you specify, DCP-o-matic
+ can also export projects to ProRes and MP4 files. This is most
+ often useful to convert DCPs to a file that is smaller and easier to play back.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To convert a DCP to ProRes or MP4, the first step is start a new
+ project and import the DCP (see <xref
+ linkend="ch-manipulating-existing-dcps"/>). Then, choose
+ <guilabel>Export...</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel>
+ menu to open the export dialogue, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-export"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <figure id="fig-export">
+ <title>Export dialogue</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/export&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+
+ <para>
+ From this dialogue you can select the required output format,
+ output file and, in the case of MP4, the quality of the output
+ file. Higher quality files will, of course, be larger.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You can also choose whether to mix down multichannel sources to stereo and whether you want to write separate reels to separate files.
+ </para>
+</chapter>
<!-- ============================================================== -->
<chapter xml:id="ch-encryption" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
diff --git a/doc/manual/screenshots/export.png b/doc/manual/screenshots/export.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9204a66c6
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