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| author | ancient-skyscraper <bwb+dcpomaticcom@gibibyte.com> | 2023-03-09 14:16:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net> | 2023-03-10 21:57:57 +0100 |
| commit | b4ab9f4adc9dd10d0f1a33286d78821da580a4d1 (patch) | |
| tree | e4c57b72dd40377f448afc2991a7d4a9db9f9271 /doc | |
| parent | 988e8d923fa30bca1be6ec78455324e1f2e62771 (diff) | |
Update documentation and CLI UI with hint info
Goal is to explain what hints are, and how the `--hints` option
changes behavior of `dcpomatic2_cli` command
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml index dd59facfa..81321a83d 100644 --- a/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml +++ b/doc/manual/dcpomatic.xml @@ -320,7 +320,20 @@ making the DCP.</para> <para> Choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> from the -<guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu. DCP-o-matic will encode your DCP. +<guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu. Before encoding your DCP, DCP-o-matic +will run a series of checks on your film to look for various conditions +that might cause problems when playing back the DCP. If any potential +problems are found, DCP-o-matic will show you a list of hints. +Each hint describes the condition that was found and gives +advice on how to resolve it. If hints are found and reported, you can +either <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> anyway (without adjusting any +settings), or <guilabel>Go back</guilabel> in order to make +adjustments before encoding the DCP. +</para> + +<para> +If no hints were found (or you pressed <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> +after hints were displayed), DCP-o-matic will encode your DCP. This may take some time (many hours in some cases). While the job is in progress, DCP-o-matic will update you on how it is getting on with the progress bar in the bottom of its window, as shown in <xref |