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+<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
<bookinfo>
-<title>DCP-o-matic</title>
+<title>DCP-o-matic users' manual</title>
<author><firstname>Carl</firstname><surname>Hetherington</surname></author>
</bookinfo>
Hello, and welcome to DCP-o-matic!
</para>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>What is DCP-o-matic?</title>
<para>
DCP-o-matic is a program to generate <ulink
url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package">Digital
-Cinema Packages</ulink> (DCPs) from DVDs, Blu-Rays, video files such as MP4
-and AVI, or still images. The resulting DCPs will play on modern digital
+Cinema Packages</ulink> (DCPs) from almost any video, audio and/or
+subtitle source files. The resulting DCPs will play on modern digital
cinema projectors.
</para>
-<para>
-You might find it useful to make DVDs easier to present, to encode
-independently-shot feature films, or to generate local advertising for
-your cinema.
-</para>
-
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Licence</title>
<para>
-DCP-o-matic is licensed under the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU GPL</ulink>.
+DCP-o-matic is free and open-source and is licensed under the <ulink
+url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU
+GPL</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Acknowledgements</title>
This manual uses icons from the <ulink url="http://tango.freedesktop.org/">Tango Desktop Project</ulink>, with thanks.
</para>
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>This manual</title>
+
+<para>
+This manual presents bits of DCP-o-matic's user interface (such as menu items or buttons) <guilabel>like this</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<note>
+Notes of an advanced nature are presented like this. Ignore them unless you want to know the gory details.
+</note>
+
</section>
</chapter>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
<title>Installation</title>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Windows</title>
<para>
-To install DCP-o-matic on Windows, simply download the installer from
-<ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com</ulink>
+To install DCP-o-matic on Windows, download the installer from
+<ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
and double-click it. Click through the installer wizard, and
DCP-o-matic will be installed onto your machine.
</para>
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Mac OS X</title>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic will run on Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and
+higher. To install it, download the <code>.dmg</code> from <ulink
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink> and double
+click to open it. Then drag the DCP-o-matics icon to your
+<guilabel>Applications</guilabel> folder or wherever else you would
+like to install it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+You do not have to install all the applications, but you must always
+install <code>DCP-o-matic 2.app</code> as the other applications
+depend on it.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Ubuntu Linux</title>
+<title>Debian or Ubuntu Linux</title>
+
+<para>
+ You can install DCP-o-matic on:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Debian 7 (‘wheezy’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Debian 8 (‘jessie’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Debian unstable (‘sid’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Ubuntu 12.04 (‘Precise Pangolin’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Ubuntu 14.04 (‘Trusty Tahr’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Ubuntu 15.10 (‘Wily Werewolf’)</listitem>
+ <listitem>Ubuntu 16.04 (‘Xenial Xerus’)</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
<para>
-You can install DCP-o-matic on Ubuntu 12.04 (‘Precise
-Pangolin’), 12.10 (‘Quantal Quetzal’) or 13.04
-(‘Raring Ringtail’) using <code>.deb</code> packages:
-download the appropriate package from <ulink
-url="http://dcpomatic.com">http://dcpomatic.com</ulink> and
-double-click it. Ubuntu will install the necessary bits and pieces
-and set DCP-o-matic up for you.
+using <code>.deb</code> packages: download the appropriate package
+from <ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
+and double-click it. Debian or Ubuntu will install the necessary bits and
+pieces and set DCP-o-matic up for you.
</para>
+</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+ <title>Fedora Linux</title>
+
+ <para>There are <code>.rpm</code> packages for Fedora 22 and 23 on
+ <ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
+ </para>
+</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+ <title>Centos Linux</title>
+ <para>There are <code>.rpm</code> packages for Centos 5, 6.5 and 7 on
+ <ulink url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>
+ </para>
+</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Arch Linux</title>
+<para>
+Packages for Arch Linux are available from <ulink
+url="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dcpomatic/">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dcpomatic/</ulink>,
+thanks to Stefan Karner.
+</para>
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Other Linux distributions</title>
<para>
-Installation on non-Ubuntu Linux is currently a little involved, as
-there are no packages available (yet); you will have to compile it
-from source. If you are using a non-Ubuntu distribution, do let me
-know via the <ulink url="mailto:dcpomatic@carlh.net">mailing
-list</ulink> and I will see about building some packages.
+Installation on other Linux systems (for which no packages are
+available) is quite hard as it must be compiled from source. If you
+can't download packages for your distribution, do let me know by
+<ulink url="mailto:carl@dcpomatic.com">email</ulink> and I will look
+into providing packages on the website.
</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><ulink url="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFmpeg</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/">libsndfile</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/">libsamplerate</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org/">libopenjpeg</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php">ImageMagick</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.boost.org/">Boost</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.libssh.org/">libssh</ulink></listitem>
-<listitem><ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK (on Linux)</ulink></listitem>
<listitem><ulink url="http://www.wxwidgets.org/">wxWidgets</ulink></listitem>
-<listitem><ulink url="http://carlh.net/software/libdcp/">libdcp</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">libxml++</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">xmlsec</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://curl.haxx.se/">curl</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://www.nih.at/libzip/">libzip</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://carlh.net/libdcp/">libdcp</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://carlh.net/libsub/">libsub</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://carlh.net/libcxml/">libcxml</ulink></listitem>
+<listitem><ulink url="http://site.icu-project.org">libicu</ulink></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
Once you have installed the development packages for the dependencies,
download the source code from <ulink
-url="http://carlh.net/software/dcpomatic">http://carlh.net</ulink>,
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/">http://dcpomatic.com/</ulink>,
unpack it and run the following commands from inside the source
directory:
</para>
</para>
<programlisting>
-dcpomatic
+dcpomatic2
</programlisting>
<para>
</section>
</chapter>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
-<title>Creating a video DCP</title>
+<title>Creating a DCP from a video</title>
<para>
-In this chapter we will see how to create a video DCP using
-DCP-o-matic. We will gloss over some of the finer details, which are
-explained in later chapters.
+In this chapter we will see how to create a DCP from a video file using
+DCP-o-matic. We will gloss over the details and look at the basics.
</para>
<section>
need some content. Download the low-resolution trailer for the open
movie <ulink url="http://sintel.org/">Sintel</ulink> from <ulink
url="http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/graphics/blender/apricot/trailer/Sintel_Trailer1.480p.DivX_Plus_HD.mkv">their
-website</ulink>. Generally, of course, one would want to use the
+website</ulink>. Generally one would want to use the
highest-resolution material available, but for this test we will use
the low-resolution version to save everyone's bandwidth bills.
</para>
<para>
Now, start DCP-o-matic and its window will open. First, we will
create a new ‘film’. A ‘film’ is how DCP-o-matic refers to
-a piece of content, along with some settings, which we will make into
+some pieces of content, along with some settings, which we will make into
a DCP. DCP-o-matic stores its data in a folder on your disk while it
creates the DCP. You can create a new film by selecting
<guilabel>New</guilabel> from the <guilabel>File</guilabel> menu, as
shown in <xref linkend="fig-file-new"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-file-new">
- <title>Creating a new film</title>
+<figure id="fig-file-new">
+ <title>Creating a new film</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="screenshots/file-new&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
linkend="fig-video-new-film"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-video-new-film">
- <title>Dialogue box for creating a new film</title>
+<figure id="fig-video-new-film">
+ <title>Dialogue box for creating a new film</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="screenshots/video-new-film&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
will write its working files.
</para>
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Adding content</title>
+
+<para>
+The next step is to add the content that you want to use. DCP-o-matic
+can make DCPs from multiple pieces of content, but in this simple
+example we will just use a single piece. Click the <guilabel>Add
+file(s)...</guilabel> button, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-add-file"/>, and a file chooser will open for you to
+select the content file to use, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-video-select-content-file"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-add-file">
+ <title>Adding content files</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/add-file&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<figure id="fig-video-select-content-file">
+ <title>Selecting a video content file</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/video-select-content-file&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Select your content file and click <guilabel>Open</guilabel>. In this
+case we are using the Sintel trailer that we downloaded earlier.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+When you do this, DCP-o-matic will take a look at your file. After a
+short while (when the progress bar at the bottom right of the window
+has finished), you can look through your content using the slider to
+the right of the window, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-examine-content"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-examine-content">
+ <title>Examining the content</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/examine-content&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Dragging the slider will move through your video. You can also click
+the <guilabel>Play</guilabel> button to play the content back. <emphasis>Note
+that there will be no sound</emphasis>, and playback might not be entirely
+accurate (it may be slightly slower or faster than it should be, for
+example). This player is really only intended for brief inspection of
+content; if you need to check it more thoroughly, use another player
+such as <ulink
+url="http://projects.gnome.org/totem/index.html">Totem</ulink>, <ulink
+url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html">mplayer</ulink> or
+<ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC</ulink>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Making the DCP</title>
+
+<para>In most cases, some adjustments would be made to DCP-o-matic's
+settings once the content has been added. For our simple test,
+however, the default values will suffice, so we can go straight onto
+making the DCP.</para>
+
+<para>
+Choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> from the
+<guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu. 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
+linkend="fig-making-dcp"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-making-dcp">
+ <title>Making the DCP</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="50" fileref="screenshots/making-dcp&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+When it has finished, the DCP will end up on your disk inside the
+film's folder. You can then copy this to a projector via a USB
+stick, hard-drive or network connection. See <xref
+linkend="ch-files"/> for details about the files that DCP-o-matic creates.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Alternatively, if you have a projector or Theatre Management System
+(TMS) that is accessible via SCP or FTP across your network, you can upload
+the content directly from DCP-o-matic. See the <xref
+linkend="sec-prefs-tms" endterm="sec-prefs-tms-short"/> in <xref linkend="sec-prefs-tms"/>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+</chapter>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>Creating a DCP from a still image</title>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic can also be used to create DCPs of one or more still images, perhaps
+for an advertisement or an on-screen announcement. This chapter shows you
+how to do it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+As with DCPs made from video files, the first step is to create a new
+‘Film’; select <guilabel>New</guilabel> from the
+<guilabel>File</guilabel> menu and the new film dialogue will open as
+shown in <xref linkend="fig-still-new-film"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-still-new-film">
+ <title>Dialogue box for creating a new film</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/still-new-film&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Enter a name and click <guilabel>OK</guilabel>. Now we need to add
+the content. As before, click <guilabel>Add file(s)...</guilabel>.
+For our example, we will add a single image file, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-still-select-content-file"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-still-select-content-file">
+ <title>Selecting a still content file</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/still-select-content-file&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Most of the default settings will be fine for a simple test. The one
+thing that you might wish to change is the length of the still.
+Select the <guilabel>Timing</guilabel> tab and you will see a
+<guilabel>Play length</guilabel> setting, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-timing-tab"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-timing-tab">
+ <title>The timing tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/timing-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+This length is a ‘timecode’: it consists of four numbers.
+The first is hours, the second minutes, the third seconds, and the
+fourth frames. Enter the duration that you want and then click <guilabel>Set</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Finally, as with video, you can choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel>
+from the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu to create your DCP. This will
+be much quicker than creating a DCP from a video file, as DCP-o-matic only needs
+to encode a single frame which it can then repeat.
+</para>
+
+</chapter>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>Manipulating existing DCPs</title>
+
+<para>
+Frequently DCP-o-matic is used to take content in formats such as MP4
+and convert it to JPEG2000 for a DCP. It can also be used
+to take existing DCPs and modify them in various ways.
+</para>
+
+<section>
+<title>Importing a DCP into DCP-o-matic</title>
+
+<para>
+If you want to do something to an existing DCP the first step is to
+import it. Click <guilabel>Add folder...</guilabel> and select your
+DCP's folder. It will be added to the DCP-o-matic project. If the
+DCP is unencrypted you can preview it in the normal way, though
+playback will be very slow as decoding of DCPs is almost as
+computationally intensive as encoding them.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section>
+<title>Decrypting encrypted DCPs</title>
+
+<para>
+DCPs can be encrypted (see <xref linkend="ch-encryption"/> for
+details). If you import an encrypted DCP you will need a key, in the
+form of a Key Delivery Message (KDM), to decrypt it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+KDMs must be prepared by the organisation which created the DCP. They
+contain the keys to decrypt the DCP wrapped up in such a way that only
+the intended recipient can read them. You will need to provide the
+organisation with a certificate which identifies your copy of
+DCP-o-matic and allows them to create a KDM for you.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To get DCP-o-matic's decryption certificate, open the Preferences
+dialogue (see <xref linkend="ch-preferences"/>) and go to the
+<guilabel>Keys</guilabel> tab. Click the <guilabel>Export DCP
+decryption certificate...</guilabel> button at the bottom of this tab
+and save the certificate. Send this certificate to the DCP creators
+and they can create a KDM to allow DCP-o-matic to decrypt their DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Once you have your KDM, right-click the DCP's name in DCP-o-matic and
+choose <guilabel>Add KDM...</guilabel>. Specify your KDM and (all
+being well) the DCP will be decrypted and become available for preview.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section>
+<title>Making a DCP from a DCP</title>
+
+<para>
+In many ways, using DCPs as <emphasis>content</emphasis> in
+DCP-o-matic is the same as using any other content. There are a few
+things to note, though.
+</para>
+
+
+<section>
+<title>Re-use of existing data</title>
+
+<para>
+Where possible DCP-o-matic will re-use existing JPEG2000-compressed
+data from DCP content without modification. This has the advantage
+that creation of the new DCP will be quick, as the time-consuming
+JPEG2000 encoding is not necessary.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic can do this if you <emphasis>avoid</emphasis> changes to
+the following content settings:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>Crop</listitem>
+<listitem>Scaling</listitem>
+<listitem>Subtitle burn-in</listitem>
+<listitem>Fades</listitem>
+<listitem>Colour conversion</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>
+If you do change any of these settings on a piece of DCP content
+DCP-o-matic will decode and then re-encode the JPEG2000 data.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section>
+<title>Making overlay files</title>
+
+<para>
+With its default settings, DCP-o-matic will take any data from DCP
+content and copy it into the DCP that it creates. See <xref linkend="fig-dcp-copy"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-dcp-copy">
+<title>Creating a new DCP by copying an existing one</title>
+<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/dcp-copy&dia;"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+This can be inefficient in some cases. Consider, for example, a film
+which has ten different translations for which the subtitles are
+different but video and audio are the same. If the video and audio
+content takes up, say, 100Gb this means that the set of DCPs for every
+translation would be about 1Tb with a lot of duplicated data.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The DCP format has a solution to this problem. One DCP can refer to
+the ‘assets’ (picture, sound or subtitle) of another DCP.
+For our translation example this means that we could have a
+‘base’ DCP (often called the OV or Original Version)
+containing video, audio and one set of subtitles and then any number
+of overlay DCPs (often called VF or Version Files) which refer to the
+base version and replace the original subtitles with their own. <xref
+linkend="fig-dcp-refer"/> shows this principle for one of our
+translations. The DCP that we make refers to the original content
+DCP's video and audio rather than containing a copy.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-dcp-refer">
+<title>Creating a new DCP by referring to an existing one</title>
+<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/dcp-refer&dia;"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+To play back the subtitled DCP the projectionist ingests both the base
+(OV) DCP and the overlay (VF) DCP, then plays the VF one.
+</para>
+
<para>
-If you always create your DCPs in a particular folder, you can use
-DCP-o-matic's <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> to make life a little
-easier by setting the default folder that DCP-o-matic will offer in this dialogue.
-See <xref linkend="ch-preferences"/>.
+To make a DCP like this:
</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>Import your ‘Content DCP’ to a DCP-o-matic project.</listitem>
+<listitem>Add whatever replacement you want in your new DCP (replacement subtitles or audio files, for example).</listitem>
+<listitem>Select the DCP in the content list</listitem>
+<listitem>Tick the <guilabel>Refer to existing DCP</guilabel> checkbox
+in the tabs for the parts of the DCP that you want to refer to in your
+new DCP. For example, to refer to the Content DCP's video and audio you would select the <guilabel>Video</guilabel> tab, click <guilabel>Refer to existing DCP</guilabel> then select the <guilabel>Audio</guilabel> tab and do the same.</listitem>
+<listitem>Do <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel> as usual and your VF DCP will be created.</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
</section>
+</section>
+
+
+
+</chapter>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>Content settings</title>
+
+<para>
+The previous chapters showed DCP generation using the default
+settings. DCP-o-matic offers a range of features to adjust the
+content that goes into your DCP, and this chapter describes those
+features in detail.
+</para>
+
<section>
-<title>Selecting content</title>
+<title>Adding and removing content</title>
+
+<para>
+At the top of the <guilabel>Content</guilabel> tab is a list of the
+content that will go into our DCP. There can be as many pieces of
+content as you like, and they can be of the following types:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>Movie — a file containing some video, probably some
+audio and possibly some embedded subtitles; for example, a MOV, MP4 or VOB.
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>Sound — a file containing one or more channels of
+audio; for example, a WAV or AIFF file.
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>Still image — a file containing a single still image; for
+example, a JPEG, PNG or TIFF file.
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>Moving image — a directory containing many still
+images which should be treated as the frames of a video.
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>Subtitle — a file containing subtitle which will be
+superimposed on the image of the DCP. These can be
+<guilabel>.srt</guilabel>, <guilabel>.ssa</guilabel> or <guilabel>.xml</guilabel>
+files.</listitem>
+
+<listitem>DCP — an existing DCP.</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>
+To add one or more movie, sound, still-image or subtitle files, select
+<guilabel>Add file(s)...</guilabel> and choose them from the selector.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To add a directory (folder) of images or a DCP, choose <guilabel>Add
+folder...</guilabel> and choose the directory from the selector. If
+you select a folder of images DCP-o-matic will open a small dialogue
+box where you can enter the frame rate that the image sequence should
+be run at.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+You can remove a piece of content by clicking on its name and then
+clicking the <guilabel>Remove</guilabel> button.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Adding existing DCPs</title>
+
+<para>Adding existing DCPs to a DCP-o-matic film is a little different
+to adding other types of content. Most content has to be converted to
+JPEG2000, the compression scheme used by DCPs, which is a very
+time-consuming process. Existing DCPs are already in JPEG2000 format
+so do not require conversion. This means that, provided no settings
+such as crop are used on the DCP content, picture and sound data will
+be passed from existing to new DCP unaltered.
+</para>
+
+<para>Encrypted DCPs that are added as content will require a KDM
+targeted at DCP-o-matic so that DCP-o-matic can decrypt them. You
+should ask the creator of the imported DCP to provide a KDM for
+DCP-o-matic's decryption certificate, which can be obtained by
+clicking <guilabel>Export DCP decryption certificate...</guilabel>
+from the <guilabel>Keys</guilabel> tab of the
+<guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> dialog (see <xref
+linkend="sec-prefs-keys"/>).
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Content Properties</title>
+
+<para>
+Below the content list are the controls to set content properties. To
+adjust the properties for a piece of content, click its name in the
+content list. The content property controls will then become active
+for that piece of content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you want to change the properties for multiple pieces of content at
+the same time, select the content in the list by clicking the first
+piece then clicking the other pieces with <keycap>shift</keycap> key
+held down. Note that not all settings can be changed in this way.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The content properties are split up into four sections:
+<guilabel>Video</guilabel>, <guilabel>Audio</guilabel>,
+<guilabel>Subtitles</guilabel> and <guilabel>Timing</guilabel>. Not
+all of these sections will be active for all content types. The controls
+in each section are described below.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Video</title>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Video</guilabel> tab controls properties of the image, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-video-tab"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-video-tab">
+ <title>Video settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/video-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Image type</title>
+
+<para>
+The first option on this tab is the ‘type’ of the video.
+This specifies how DCP-o-matic should interpret the video's image.
+<guilabel>2D</guilabel> is the default; this just takes the video
+image as a standard 2D frame. The <guilabel>3D
+left/right</guilabel> option tells DCP-o-matic to interpret the frame as a
+left-right pair, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-3d-left-right"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-3d-left-right">
+ <title>3D left/right image type</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/3d-left-right&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Alternatively the <guilabel>3D top/bottom</guilabel> option tells
+DCP-o-matic to see the frame as a top-bottom pair, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-3d-top-bottom"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-3d-top-bottom">
+ <title>3D top/bottom image type</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/3d-top-bottom&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Another option is <guilabel>3D alternate</guilabel> which takes the
+first frame of the content as for the left eye, the second for the
+right eye, the third for the left, and so on. Finally, you can
+specify <guilabel>3D left only</guilabel> or <guilabel>3D right
+only</guilabel> if this content contains only the the left or right
+eye images. This is useful when you have the left and right eye image
+sets in different files; you can specify one content as <guilabel>3D
+left only</guilabel> and another as <guilabel>3D right only</guilabel>
+and DCP-o-matic will pick up the appropriate frames from each.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Filtering</title>
+
+<para>
+The ‘filters’ settings allow you to apply various video
+filters to the image. These may be useful to try to improve
+poor-quality sources like DVDs. You can set up the filters by clicking the
+<guilabel>Edit</guilabel> button next to the filters entry in the
+setup area of the DCP-o-matic window; this opens the filters selector
+as shown in <xref linkend="fig-filters"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-filters">
+ <title>Filters selector</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/filters&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+After changing the filters setup, you will need to regenerate the DCP
+to see the effect on the cinema screen. The preview in DCP-o-matic
+will update itself whenever filters are changed, though of course this
+image is much smaller and of lower resolution than a projected image!
+</para>
+</section>
+
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Colour conversion</title>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Colour conversion</guilabel> setting specifies what
+colour transforms and gamma correction DCP-o-matic will use when
+converting the selected content into the XYZ colourspace for the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The easiest way to select the required conversion is to choose one of
+DCP-o-matic's presets. DCP-o-matic knows how to convert from four
+common colourspaces: sRGB, Rec. 601, Rec. 709 and P3. If you do not
+know which preset you should use, refer to the suggestions in <xref
+linkend="tab-colour-conversion"/>.
+</para>
+
+<table id="tab-colour-conversion">
+<title>Suggested colour conversion settings</title>
+<tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+<colspec colwidth='1*'/>
+<colspec colwidth='5*'/>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry>sRGB</entry><entry>Still images in RGB, e.g. photographs</entry>.
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry>Rec. 601</entry><entry>Standard-definition content (fewer than about 1000 pixels across) including DVD rips.</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry>Rec. 709</entry><entry>High-definition content including Blu-Ray rips.</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry>P3</entry><entry>Content explicitly graded to P3.</entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+
+<para>
+For other required colour conversions, and if you know what you are
+doing, you can choose <guilabel>Custom</guilabel> which will open the full
+colour conversion editing dialogue box:
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-colour-conversion">
+ <title>Dialogue box for custom colour conversion</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/colour-conversion&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Alternatively, choose <guilabel>None</guilabel> if your source files
+are already in the XYZ colour space and require no conversion.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic's colour conversion processes are discussed in much more
+detail in a separate document <ulink
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/manual/colour.pdf">colour.pdf</ulink>.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Other settings</title>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>crop</guilabel> settings can be used to crop your content,
+which can be used to remove black borders from round the edges of DVD
+images, for example. The specified number of pixels will be trimmed
+from each edge, and the content image in the right of the window will
+be updated to show the effect of the crop.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>fade in</guilabel> and <guilabel>fade out</guilabel>
+settings can be used to apply linear fades into and out of a piece of
+content. Specify the time for each, clicking <guilabel>Set</guilabel>
+after making any changes.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Scale to</guilabel> option governs the shape that
+DCP-o-matic will scale the content's image into. Select the aspect
+ratio that your content should be presented in.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Video description</title>
+
+<para>
+At the bottom of the video tab is a short description of what will
+happen to your video with the current settings. In the example of
+<xref linkend="fig-video-tab"/>, DCP-o-matic is telling you that the
+video file is 1920x1080 pixels and it has square pixels (a pixel
+aspect ratio of 1.00) hence its display aspect ratio is 1.78:1. Since
+the controls specify ‘16.9’ for the ratio, DCP-o-matic
+does not scale the image but pads it to the DCP's container ratio of
+1.85:1. For a 2K DCP this is 1998x1080 pixels.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This description also gives the frame rate of the content and what
+will happen to it when it is played at the DCP's frame rate. See
+<xref linkend="ch-frame-rates"/> for details of DCP-o-matic's
+frame-rate conversion.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Audio</title>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Audio</guilabel> tab controls properties of the image, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-audio-tab"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-audio-tab">
+ <title>Audio settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>The audio map</title>
+
+<para>
+The section at the bottom of the audio tab is the ‘audio
+map’. This governs how sound from the content will be arranged
+in the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Down the left-hand side of the map is the list of audio channels in
+the currently-selected piece of content. These are labelled with two
+numbers; the first is the stream index within the content and the
+second is the channel number within that stream. Some content will
+have different streams for different languages or audio mixes. Along
+the top is each channel in the DCP. A green box means that the
+corresponding content channel will be copied into the corresponding
+DCP channel.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+When content channels are copied into DCP channels they can be done
+with variable gain. If, for example, you want to copy a channel
+as-is, you can set a gain of 0dB. Alternatively, if you want to mix
+two channels into one, you may want to use a gain of -6dB on each one
+to prevent clipping when the two channels are added.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The green boxes of the audio mapping view tell you (very roughly) how
+much gain is applied to each channel. A full-height box means 0dB
+(i.e. unity) gain. Any less height indicates lower gain.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To map one channel to another with 0dB gain, click in the empty box
+and it will turn green to reflect the mapping. A second click will
+turn the mapping back off. To set some other gain, right-click on the
+box to open the gain menu. This allows you to set
+<guilabel>Off</guilabel> (no mapping or negative infinity gain),
+<guilabel>Full</guilabel> (0dB gain), -6dB gain or
+<guilabel>Edit</guilabel> which allows you to set the required gain
+precisely.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Consider, for example, the case in <xref linkend="fig-audio-map-eg1"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-audio-map-eg1">
+ <title>Audio map example 1</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-map-eg1&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Here, we have two channels in the source which are mapped to left and
+right, respectively, in the DCP. The full green boxes show that the
+mapping is at unity gain (0dB) in each case. Imagine that we modify
+the settings to those shown in <xref linkend="fig-audio-map-eg2"/>
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-audio-map-eg2">
+ <title>Audio map example 2</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-map-eg2&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+We now have the content's streams mapped to left and right and also
+mixed together and placed in the DCP's centre channel. The smaller
+green boxes on the centre mappings show that those channels are added
+with some non-unity gain; you can see by hovering the mouse pointer
+over those boxes that the gain for content channels 1 and 2 is -6dB
+when being sent to the centre channel and 0dB when being sent to left
+and right.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-audio-map-eg3">
+ <title>Audio map example 3</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-map-eg3&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+As a final example, the map in <xref linkend="fig-audio-map-eg3"/>
+shows the mapping of a 5.1 source into a 5.1 DCP.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Other controls</title>
+
+<para>
+‘Audio Gain’ is used to alter the volume of the
+soundtrack. The specified gain (in dB) will be applied to each sound
+channel of your content before it is written to the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you use a sound processor that DCP-o-matic knows about, it can help
+you calculate changes in gain that you should apply. Say, for
+example, that you make a test DCP and find that you have to run it at
+volume 5 instead of volume 7 to get a good sound level in the screen.
+If this is the case, click the <guilabel>Calculate...</guilabel>
+button next to the audio gain entry, and the dialogue box in <xref
+linkend="fig-calculate-audio-gain"/> will open.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-calculate-audio-gain">
+ <title>Calculating audio gain</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/calculate-audio-gain&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+For our example, put 5 in the first box and 7 in the second and click
+<guilabel>OK</guilabel>. DCP-o-matic will calculate the audio gain
+that it should apply to make this happen. Then you can re-make the
+DCP (this will be reasonably fast, as the video data will already have
+been done) and it should play back at the correct volume with 7 on
+your sound-rack fader.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Current versions of DCP-o-matic only know about the Dolby CP650 and
+CP750. If you use a different sound processor, and know the gain
+curve of its volume control, <ulink url="mailto:carl@dcpomatic.com">get in
+touch</ulink>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Audio Delay</guilabel> is used to adjust the synchronisation
+between audio and video. A positive delay will move the audio later
+with respect to the video, and a negative delay will move it earlier.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Subtitles</title>
+
+<para>
+The subtitles tab contains settings related to subtitles in your
+content, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-subtitles-tab"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-subtitles-tab">
+ <title>Subtitle settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/subtitles-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic can either:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Extract subtitles that are embedded in video files, or</listitem>
+ <listitem>Use subtitles from SubRip (<code>.srt</code>), SubStation
+ Alpha (<code>.ssa</code>) or DCP XML files. You may find the great
+ free program <ulink
+ url="http://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/">Subtitle Edit</ulink> useful
+ for creating such files.</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>
+Embedded subtitles are usually represented using a set of bitmaps,
+especially on files that have come from DVD or BluRay. Such subtitles
+can (currently) only be ‘burnt’ into the DCP (that is,
+they are included in the image and not overlaid by the projector).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+With SubRip, SubStation Alpha or DCP subtitles you have the choice to
+either burn-in or include the subtitles as separate subtitle
+‘asset’ within your DCP (in which case the projector
+overlays them onto the image on playback). The difference between
+burn-in and overlay is illustrated by <xref linkend="fig-burn-in"/>
+and <xref linkend="fig-discrete"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-burn-in">
+ <title>Burnt-in subtitles</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/burn-in&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<figure id="fig-discrete">
+ <title>Separate subtitles</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/discrete&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+The advantage of separate subtitles is that the same video content can
+be used for DCPs in many different languages. This means that only a
+small text file needs to be changed for each target language, rather
+than a large video file. It also means that the time-consuming video
+encoding need only be done once for the project rather than once for
+every language.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Select the <guilabel>Use Subtitles</guilabel> check-box to enable
+the subtitles in the selected content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Select the <guilabel>Burn subtitles into image</guilabel> check-box to
+burn these subtitles into the image; if this is not ticked the
+subtitles will be included separately in the DCP to be rendered by the
+projector. This check-box will always be ticked if you are using
+embedded ‘image’ subtitles.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>X Offset</guilabel> and <guilabel>Y Offset</guilabel>
+controls move the subtitles around within the image. The offsets are
+expressed as a percentage of the video frame size; 100% X offset is
+the entire width of the frame, and 100% Y offset is the entire height.
+Hence, to move the subtitles down by half the frame height you would
+use a Y offset of 50%.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>X Scale</guilabel> and <guilabel>Y Scale</guilabel>
+controls scale the subtitles. Scale values of 1 make the subtitles
+the same size (relative to the size of the image) as they are on the
+original. Values lower than 1 make them smaller, and values higher
+make them larger. You can stretch the subtitles in either direction
+by specifying different values for X and Y scale. Subtitles from DVD
+and Blu Ray sources are frequently larger (relative to the video
+frame) than those typically used for DCP, so it is often useful to
+scale such subtitles down using these controls.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Stream</guilabel> control changes the subtitle stream
+that is used when the content has more than one.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you are using non-embedded (text) subtitles you can see the
+subtitle text and timings by clicking the <guilabel>View...</guilabel>
+button, or specify the fonts that should be used by clicking <guilabel>Fonts...</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+With any subtitles you can click <guilabel>Appearance...</guilabel> to
+change how the subtitles look.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Timing</title>
+
+<para>
+The timing tab contains settings related to the timing of your
+content, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-timing-tab-detail"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-timing-tab-detail">
+ <title>Timing settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/timing-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Most of the timing tab's entries are <emphasis>time-codes</emphasis>.
+These are expressed as four numbers, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-timecode"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-timecode">
+ <title>Timecode</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/timecode&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Position</guilabel> is the time at which this piece of
+content should start within the DCP. In most cases, this will be
+<code>0:0:0:0</code> to make the content start at the beginning of the
+DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Full length</guilabel> is the length of the piece of
+content. This can only be set for still-image content: for video or
+sound content, it is fixed by the nature of the content file. If
+still-image content is being used you can set the length for which it
+should be displayed using this control.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Trim from start</guilabel> specifies the amount that should be trimmed from the start of the content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Trim from end</guilabel> specifies the amount that should be trimmed from the end of the content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Play length</guilabel> indicates how long this piece of
+content will be once the trims have been applied. This will be equal
+to the full length minus <guilabel>trim-from-start</guilabel> and minus <guilabel>trim-from-end</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Video frame rate</guilabel> specifies the frame rate for
+still-image content. It can also be used to override the detected
+frame rate of other content if DCP-o-matic has got it wrong.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Each timecode control has a <guilabel>Set</guilabel> which you should
+click when you have entered a new value for a timecode. The
+<guilabel>Set</guilabel> button will make DCP-o-matic take account of
+any changes to the corresponding timecode.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Video processing pipeline</title>
+
+<para>
+This section gives a little more detail about how DCP-o-matic process
+video as it takes it from a source and puts it into a DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Consider, as a somewhat over-the-top example, that we have a 720 x 576
+image which is letterboxed with 36 black pixels each at the top and
+bottom, and the video content within the letterbox should be presented
+in the DCP at ratio of 2.39:1 within a 1.85:1 frame (such as might
+happen with a trailer). The source image is shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-pipeline1"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-pipeline1">
+ <title>Example image to demonstrate video processing</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/pipeline1&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic runs through the following steps when preparing an image for a DCP:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>Crop</listitem>
+<listitem>Scale</listitem>
+<listitem>Place in container</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>
+First, some amount of the image can be cropped. This is almost always
+used to remove black borders (letterboxing and/or pillarboxing) around
+images.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+In our example image, we would use 36 pixels of crop from the top and
+bottom. This would give the new image shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-pipeline2"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-pipeline2">
+ <title>Example image after cropping</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/pipeline2&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+The next step is to scale the image. Since this content should be
+presented in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio inside a 1.85:1 DCP we would select
+<guilabel>Scope</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Scale to</guilabel>
+option in the <guilabel>Video</guilabel> tab and
+<guilabel>Flat</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Container</guilabel>
+option in the <guilabel>DCP</guilabel> tab.
+</para>
+
+<para>The <guilabel>Scale to</guilabel> option should always be set to
+the aspect ratio at which the content should be seen. The
+<guilabel>Container</guilabel> option should be set to the preset that
+you want to use on the projector. Of course, these two settings will
+often be the same.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Given the scaling and container information, DCP-o-matic will look at
+the DCP's container size, and then scale the source image up until one
+or both of its dimensions (width, height or both) fits the size of the
+container, all the while preserving the desired aspect ratio.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+In our example here, the DCP's container is specified as 1.85:1 (so
+that the DCP will play back correctly using the projector's
+‘Flat’ preset). At 2K, 1.85:1 is 1998 pixels by 1080.
+Scaling the source up whilst preserving its 1.85:1 aspect ratio will
+result in the image hitting the sides of the container first, at a
+size of 1998 x 836. This gives us a new version of the image as shown
+in <xref linkend="fig-pipeline3"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-pipeline3">
+ <title>Example image after cropping and scaling</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/pipeline3&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+The final step is to place the image into the DCP. In this case,
+since we have a 2.39:1 image that should be presented as a 1.85:1 DCP,
+we have set the <guilabel>container</guilabel> in the
+<guilabel>DCP</guilabel> tab to be Scope. Since the content has been
+scaled to 1998 x 836, and a Flat container is 1998 x 1080, there will
+be some black bars at the top and bottom of the image. DCP-o-matic
+shares out this black equally, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-pipeline3"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-pipeline4">
+ <title>Example image in the DCP</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/pipeline4&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+</section>
+
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter xml:id="ch-dcp" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>DCP settings</title>
+
+<para>
+This chapter describes the settings that apply to the whole DCP. The
+controls for these settings are in the <guilabel>DCP</guilabel> tab of
+the main window, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-dcp-tab"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-dcp-tab">
+ <title>DCP settings tab</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/dcp-tab&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+The first thing here is the name. This is generally set to the title
+of the film that is being encoded. If <guilabel>Use ISDCF
+name</guilabel> is not ticked, the name that you specify will be used
+as-is for the name of the DCP. If <guilabel>Use ISDCF name</guilabel>
+is ticked, the name that you enter will be used as part of a
+ISDCF-compliant name.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Underneath the name field is a preview of the name that the DCP will
+get. To use a ISDCF-compliant name, tick the <guilabel>Use ISDCF
+name</guilabel> check-box. The ISDCF name will be composed using details
+of your content's soundtrack, the current date and other things that
+can be specified in the ISDCF name details dialogue box, which you can
+open by clicking on the <guilabel>Details</guilabel> button.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you want to take the ISDCF-compliant name that DCP-o-matic
+generates and modify it, click <guilabel>Copy as name</guilabel> and
+the ISDCF name will be copied into the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> box.
+You can then edit it as you wish. The DCP name should not matter (in
+that it should not affect how the DCP ingests or plays) but
+projectionists will appreciate it if you use the standard naming
+scheme as it makes it easier to identify details of the content.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Content Type</guilabel> option can be
+‘feature’, ‘trailer’ or whatever; select the
+required type from the drop-down list. On some projection systems
+this will affect where your content appears in the projector's server
+user interface, so take care to select an appropriate type.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Signed</guilabel> check-box sets whether or not the DCP
+is signed. This is rarely important; if in doubt, tick it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Encrypted</guilabel> check-box will set whether the DCP
+should be encrypted or not. If this is ticked, the DCP will require a
+KDM to play back. Encryption is discussed in <xref
+linkend="ch-encryption"/>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you use encryption DCP-o-matic will generate a random encryption
+key for you. To specify your own key, click the
+<guilabel>Edit..</guilabel> button next to the key.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Reels</guilabel> and <guilabel>Reel length</guilabel>
+controls specify how the DCP will be split up into
+‘reels’. See <xref linkend="sec-reels"/> below.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Standard</guilabel> option specifies which of the two
+DCP standards DCP-o-matic should use. If in doubt, use SMPTE (the
+more modern of the two).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Ticking the <guilabel>Upload DCP to TMS after it is made</guilabel>
+will ask DCP-o-matic to copy the finished DCP to your configured TMS (see <xref linkend="sec-prefs-tms"/>).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+At the bottom of the DCP tab are a further two tabs, one each to
+contain the settings for the DCP's video and audio parts.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Container</guilabel> option sets the ratio of the image
+in the DCP. If this ratio is different to the ratio used for any
+content, DCP-o-matic will pad the content with black. In simple cases
+this should be set to the same ratio as that for the the primary piece
+of video content. Alternatively, you might want to pillarbox a small
+format into a Flat container: in this case, select the small format
+for the content's ratio and ‘Flat’ for the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Frame Rate</guilabel> control sets the frame rate of
+your DCP. This can be a little tricky to get right. Ideally, you
+want it to be the same as the video content that you are using. If it
+is not the same, DCP-o-matic must resort to some tricks to alter your
+content to fit the specified frame rate. Frame rates are discussed in
+more detail in <xref linkend="ch-frame-rates"/>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Use best</guilabel> button sets the DCP video frame rate
+to what DCP-o-matic thinks is the best given the content that you have
+added.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>3D</guilabel> button will set your DCP to 3D mode if it
+is checked. A 3D DCP will then be created, and any 2D content will be
+made 3D compatible by repeating the same frame for both left and right
+eyes. A 3D DCP can be played back on many 3D systems (e.g. Dolby 3D,
+Real-D etc.) but not on a 2D system.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Resolution</guilabel> tab allows you to choose the
+resolution for your DCP. Use 2K unless you have content that is of
+high enough resolution to be worth presenting in 4K.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>JPEG2000 bandwidth</guilabel>; setting changes how big
+the final image files used within the DCP will be. Larger numbers
+will give better quality, but correspondingly larger DCPs. The
+bandwidth can be between 50 and 250 megabits per second (Mbit/s).
+Most commercial DCPs use bit rates between 75 and 125 MBit/s.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Audio Channels</guilabel> control sets the number of
+audio channels that the DCP will have. If the DCP has any channels
+for which there is no content audio they will be replaced by silence.
+You can only set an even number of channels here, since that is
+required by the DCI standard. If you want an odd number of channels,
+set the DCP channel count to one greater than you need and the
+unused channel will be filled with silence.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Processor</guilabel> control allows you to select a
+process to apply to the audio before it goes into the DCP. Three processes are currently provided:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>Mid-side decode — this will take a L/R
+stereo input and extract the common part (corresponding to the
+‘Mid’ in a mid-side signal) into the DCP's centre channel.
+The remaining L/R parts will be kept in the L/R channels of the DCP.
+This may be useful to make near-field L/R mixes more compatible with
+cinema audio systems.</listitem>
+<listitem>Stereo to 5.1 up-mixer A — this will take a stereo input and up-mix it to ‘fake’ 5.1. The input L/R are treated as follows:
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>DCP L is input L bandpass-filtered between 1.9kHz and 4.8kHz.</listitem>
+<listitem>DCP R is input R bandpass-filtered between 1.9kHz and 4.8kHz.</listitem>
+<listitem>DCP C is input L mixed with input R, taken down by 3dB and then bandpass-filtered between 150Hz and 1.9kHz.</listitem>
+<listitem>DCP Lfe is input L mixed with input R, taken down by 3dB and then bandpass-filtered between 20Hz and 150Hz.</listitem>
+<listitem>DCP Ls is input L bandpass-filtered between 4.8kHz and 20kHz.</listitem>
+<listitem>DCP Rs is input R bandpass-filtered between 4.8kHz and 20kHz.</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+<para>
+This upmixing algorithm is due to Gérald Maruccia.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>Stereo to 5.1 up-mixer B — this uses a different approach:
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>DCP L is input L.</listitem>
+ <listitem>DCP R is input R.</listitem>
+ <listitem>DCP C is input L + input R taken down by 3dB.</listitem>
+ <listitem>DCP Lfe is DCP C bandpass filtered between 20Hz and 150Hz.</listitem>
+ <listitem>DCP Ls and Rs are input L - input R with a 20ms delay.</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section xml:id="sec-reels">
+<title>Reels</title>
+
+<para>
+A ‘reel’ in a DCP is a subsection of the DCP, in the same
+way as a 35mm reel is a section of a film. A DCP can be split up into
+any number of reels and the joins (the equivalent to 35mm splices)
+between the reels are seamless.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There is no reason why you can't just use a single reel for the whole
+of your DCP, as there is no limit on their length. Many people choose
+to do this.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There are, however, some possible advantages of splitting things up
+into reels:
+</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+The picture, sound and subtitle data of the DCP will be
+split up into more smaller files on disk, rather than fewer larger
+files. This can be useful if the DCP is to be transferred on storage
+that have file size limits. The FAT32 filesystem, for example, can
+only hold files smaller than 4Gb. A 6Gb DCP with a single reel could
+not be transferred using a FAT32-formatted disk. If that DCP were
+split up into two 3Gb reels it could be transferred.
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+It is easier to re-use DCP components if they are in reels. Consider,
+for example, a film company who wants to put a 5 second ident onto the
+beginning of DCPs that they distribute. If they receive a feature
+film DCP they can modify it to add their ident as a separate reel.
+This is easier than attaching the picture data in the DCP.
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic offers three options for setting up the reels in your DCP:
+single reel, split by video content or custom.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Single reel</guilabel>, as its name suggests, keeps the whole DCP as one reel.
+This is a perfectly good option if you have no particular reason to
+need reels.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Split by video content</guilabel> puts each piece of source
+video content in its own reel, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-reels-by-video"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-reels-by-video">
+<title>Making reels using split by video content</title>
+<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/reels-by-video&dia;"/></imageobject></mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+Here we have three video files (<code>ident.mp4</code>,
+<code>feature.ts</code> and <code>cred.mov</code>). With
+<guilabel>split by video content</guilabel> DCP-o-matic makes a new
+reel to hold each video file.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+<guilabel>Custom</guilabel> splits reels by the size of the files that
+will make up their video content. With <guilabel>Custom</guilabel>
+you must specify a reel length in Gb. Then no file in the DCP will be larger than this reel length.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Show audio</title>
+
+<para>
+The <guilabel>Show Audio</guilabel> button will instruct DCP-o-matic
+to examine the audio in your content and plot a graph of its level
+over time. This can be useful for getting a rough idea of how loud
+the sound will be in the cinema auditorium. A typical plot is shown
+in <xref linkend="fig-audio-plot"/>
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-audio-plot">
+ <title>Audio plot</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-plot&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+The plot gives the audio level (vertical axis, in dB) with time
+(horizontal axis). 0dB represents full scale, so if there is anything
+near this you are in danger of clipping the projector's audio outputs.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There are two plot types: the peak level and the RMS, which can be
+shown or hidden using the check-boxes on the right hand side of the
+window.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The channel check-boxes will show or hide the plot(s) for
+the corresponding channels in the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The smoothing slider applies a variable degree of temporal smoothing
+to the plots, which can make them easier to read in some cases.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Obviously the audio plot is no substitute for listening in an
+auditorium, but it can be useful to get levels in the right rough area.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter xml:id="ch-encryption" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>Encryption</title>
+
+<para>
+It is not required that DCPs be encrypted, but they can be. This
+chapter discusses the basic principles of DCP encryption, and how
+DCP-o-matic can create encrypted DCPs and KDMs for them.
+</para>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Basics</title>
+
+<para>
+DCPs can be encrypted. This means that the picture and sound data are
+encoded in such a way that only cinemas ‘approved’ by the
+DCP's creators can read them. In particular, this means copies of the
+DCP can be distributed by insecure means: if an ne'er-do-well called
+Mallory obtains a hard drive containing an encrypted DCP, there is no
+way that he can play it. Only those cinemas who receive a correct key
+delivery message (KDM) can play the DCP.
+</para>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>How it works (in a nutshell)</title>
+
+<para>
+This section attempts to summarise how DCP encryption works. You can
+skip it if you like. You may need some knowledge of encryption
+methods to understand it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+We suppose that we are trying to send a DCP to
+Alice's cinema without a troublemaker called Mallory being able to
+watch it himself.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There are two main families of encryption techniques. The first,
+symmetric-key encryption, allows us to encode some data using some
+numeric key. After encoding, no-one can decode the data unless they
+know the key.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The first step in a DCP encryption is to encode its data with some key
+using symmetric-key encryption. The encrypted DCP can then be sent
+anywhere, safe in the knowledge that even if Mallory got hold of a
+copy, he could not decrypt it.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Alice, however, needs to know the key so she can play the DCP in her
+cinema. A simple approach might be for us to send Alice the key.
+However, if Mallory can intercept the DCP, he might also be able to
+intercept our communication of the key to Alice. Furthermore, if Alice
+happened to know Mallory, she could just send him a copy of the key.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The clever bit in the process requires the use of public-key
+encryption. With this technique we can encrypt a block of data using
+some ‘public’ key. That data can then only be decrypted
+using a corresponding private key which is
+<emphasis>different</emphasis> to the public key. The private and
+public keys form a pair which are related mathematically, but it is
+extremely hard (or rather, virtually impossible) to derive the private
+key from the public key.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Public-key encryption allows us to distribute the DCP's key to Alice
+securely. The manufacturer of Alice's projector generates a public
+and private key. They hide the private key deep inside the bowels of
+the projector (inside an integrated circuit) where no-one can read it.
+They then make the public key available to anyone who is interested.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+We take our DCP's symmetric key and encrypt it using the public key of
+Alice's projector. We send the result to Alice over email (using a
+format called a Key Delivery Message, or KDM). Her projector then
+decrypts our message using its private key, yielding the magic
+symmetric key which can decrypt the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If is fine if Mallory intercepts our email to Alice, since the only
+key which can decrypt the message is the private key buried inside
+Alice's projector. The projector manufacturer is very careful that
+no-one ever finds out what this key is. Our DCP is secure: only Alice
+can play it back, since only her projector knows the key (even Alice
+does not).
+</para>
+
+</section>
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Encryption using DCP-o-matic</title>
+
+<para>
+There are two steps to distributing an encrypted DCP. First, the
+DCP's data must be encrypted, and secondly KDMs must be generated for
+those cinemas that are allowed to play the DCP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The first part is simple: ticking the <guilabel>Encrypted</guilabel>
+box in the <guilabel>DCP</guilabel> tab will instruct DCP-o-matic to
+encrypt the DCP that it makes using a random key that DCP-o-matic
+generates. The key will be written to the film's metadata file, which
+should be kept secure.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+A DCP that is generated with the <guilabel>Encrypted</guilabel> box
+ticked will not play on any projector as-is (it will be marked as
+‘locked’, or whatever the projector manufacturer's term
+is).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The second part of distributions is to generate KDMs for the cinemas
+that you wish to allow to play your DCP. There are two approaches to
+this within DCP-o-matic: using the project, or using a DKDM. These
+approaches are now described in turn.
+</para>
+
+<section>
+<title>Creating KDMs from a DCP-o-matic project</title>
+
+<para>
+You can create KDMs from inside a DCP-o-matic project using the
+<guilabel>Make KDMs</guilabel> option on the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel>
+menu. This will open the KDM dialogue box, as shown in <xref
+linkend="fig-kdm"/>.
+</para>
+
+<figure id="fig-kdm">
+ <title>KDM dialog</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/kdm&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
+<para>
+In order to generate KDMs for a particular projector, you need to know
+its <emphasis>certificate</emphasis>. These are usually made
+available by the projector manufacturers as text files with a
+<code>.pem</code> extension.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+DCP-o-matic can store these certificates along with details of their
+cinemas and screens within those cinemas. Each screen has a
+certificate for its projector (and optionally certificates for other
+trusted devices, such as the sound processor). DCP-o-matic can
+generate KDMs for any screens that it knows about.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To add a cinema, click <guilabel>Add Cinema...</guilabel>. This opens
+a dialogue box into which you can enter the cinema's name, and
+optionally an email address. This email address can be used to
+get DCP-o-matic to deliver KDMs via email.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Once you have added a cinema, select it by clicking on its name, then
+click <guilabel>Add Screen...</guilabel>. The resulting dialogue
+allows you to enter a name for the screen and load in its certificate
+from a file. The certificate should be in SHA256 PEM format.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Alternatively, certificates for projection systems made by some
+manufacturers can be downloaded from databases provided by the
+manufacturer. Currently this is supported for Doremi and Dolby
+equipment. If you are targeting a screen with equipment by one of
+these manufacturers you can click <guilabel>Download</guilabel> then
+enter the serial number of the server in the screen and click
+<guilabel>Download</guilabel> again and, all being well, the certificate
+will be fetched.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Using the download system you will need to know the serial number of
+the media server in use in the screen. Most cinema projection or
+technical departments will know these serial numbers.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Note that the reliability of the manufacturers' certificate databases
+cannot be guaranteed. It is vital that KDMs are tested by the
+destination cinema will in advance of show time to identify any
+problems.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Once you have set up all the screens that you need KDMs for, select
+the CPL that you want to create the KDM for. You can use the
+drop-down list to select the CPLs in the current film project, or load
+a CPL from somewhere else. Select the cinemas and/or screens that you
+want KDMs for and fill in the start and end dates and times.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+You must also select the type of KDM that you want to generate. If in
+doubt, use <guilabel>Modified Transitional 1</guilabel>.
+</para>
+
+<note>
+The differences between the three KDM types are fairly subtle.
+<guilabel>DCI Specific</guilabel> and <guilabel>DCI Any</guilabel> add
+a <code><ContentAuthenticator></code> tag to the KDM which
+allows the exhibitor to check that the DCP and KDM have come from a
+bona-fide source. In addition, <guilabel>DCI Specific</guilabel> adds
+information on trusted devices to the KDM. This allows the KDM
+creator to specify devices (such as sound processors) that are allowed
+to use keys delivered by the KDM. At present it is not clear how
+widely the <guilabel>DCI Specific</guilabel> and <guilabel>DCI
+Any</guilabel> features are supported (or even tolerated) by servers
+so you are advised to use <guilabel>Modified Transitional
+1</guilabel>.
+</note>
+
+<para>
+Finally, choose what you want to do with the KDMs. They can be
+written to disk, to a location that you can specify by clicking
+<guilabel>Browse</guilabel>. Alternatively, if you choose
+<guilabel>Send by email</guilabel> the KDMs will be zipped up and
+emailed to the appropriate cinema email addresses. Click
+<guilabel>Make KDMs</guilabel> to generate the KDMs.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Creating KDMs using a DKDM</title>
+</section>
+
+<para>
+It can be inconvenient to need a whole DCP-o-matic project just to
+create KDMs for its film. Perhaps you want to archive the project to
+save space, or create KDMs on a different machine. In such situations
+it is easier to use a DKDM. This is a normal KDM, but instead of
+being targeted at a projection system (to allow it to decrypt the
+content) it is targeted at a particular users's certificate. This
+means that the certificate owner can create new KDMs for other users.
+The DKDM holds everything that is required to create further KDMs.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Sometimes it is useful to create DKDMs that can be used by
+DCP-o-matic. If you create such a DKDM you can keep it and then, at
+any point in the future, use DCP-o-matic's standalone KDM creator to
+make KDMs for the DKDM's film for any cinema.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+In other cases a DKDM is sent to a 3rd party so that they can create
+KDMs for your films. This can be useful if, for example, you have a
+distributor who provides 24-hour KDM support to cinemas and can create
+KDMs for anybody that requires them at short notice.
+</para>
<para>
-The next step is to set the content that you want to use. Click the
-content selector, as shown in <xref
-linkend="fig-click-content-selector"/>, and a file chooser will
-open for you to select the content file to use, as shown in <xref
-linkend="fig-video-select-content-file"/>.
+To create a DKDM for DCP-o-matic, open your encrypted project and
+select <guilabel>Make DKDM for DCP-o-matic...</guilabel> from the
+<guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu. Select the CPL that you want to make
+the DKDM for and click <guilabel>OK</guilabel>. This DKDM will then
+be available in the KDM creator. This is a separate program which you
+can start from the same place that you start the ‘normal’
+DCP-o-matic. Its window is shown in <xref linkend="fig-kdm-creator"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-click-content-selector">
- <title>Opening the content selector</title>
+<figure id="fig-kdm-creator">
+ <title>The KDM creator</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/click-content-selector&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/kdm-creator&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
-<figure id="fig-video-select-content-file">
- <title>Selecting a video content file</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/video-select-content-file&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
-</figure>
+<para>
+To create KDMs, select the cinema(s) and/or screens that you want KDMs
+to be created for, the date range, the DCP that the KDMs are for and
+the destination for the KDMs and click <guilabel>Create
+KDMs</guilabel>.
+</para>
<para>
-Select your content file and click <guilabel>Open</guilabel>. In this
-case we are using the Sintel trailer that we downloaded earlier.
+By default the <guilabel>DKDM</guilabel> list will list any DCPs for
+which you have clicked <guilabel>Make DKDM for
+DCP-o-matic</guilabel>in the main DCP-o-matic program. If you have
+other DKDMs you can add them by clicking <guilabel>Add...</guilabel> and
+specifying the file containing the DKDM.
</para>
<para>
-When you do this, DCP-o-matic will take a look at your file. After a
-short while (when the progress bar at the bottom right of the window
-has finished), you can look through your content using the slider to
-the right of the window, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-examine-thumbs"/>.
+If another organisation wants to send you a DKDM they will ask you for
+a target certificate. You can get DCP-o-matic's target certificate by
+opening <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> and clicking <guilabel>Export
+DCP decryption certificate...</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Keys</guilabel>
+tab.
+
</para>
-<figure id="fig-examine-thumbs">
- <title>Examining the content</title>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Encryption overview</title>
+
+<figure id="fig-encryption-overview">
+ <title>Overview of encryption</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/examine-thumbs&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="diagrams/crypt&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
+</section>
+</chapter>
+
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<chapter xml:id="ch-preferences" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
+<title>Preferences</title>
+
<para>
-Dragging the slider will move through your video. You can also click
-the <guilabel>Play</guilabel> button to play the content back. Note
-that there will be no sound, and playback might not be entirely
-accurate (it may be slightly slower or faster than it should be, for
-example). This player is really only intended for brief inspection of
-content; if you need to check it more thoroughly, use another player
-such as <ulink url="http://projects.gnome.org/totem/index.html">Totem</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html">mplayer</ulink> or <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC</ulink>.
+DCP-o-matic provides a few preferences which can be used to modify its
+behaviour. This chapter explains those options.
</para>
-</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Setting up</title>
+<title>The preferences dialogue</title>
<para>
-Now there are a few things to set up to describe how the DCP should be
-created. The settings are divided into four tabs: film, video, audio and subtitles.
+The preferences dialogue is opened by choosing
+<guilabel>Preferences...</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Edit</guilabel>
+menu. The dialogue is split into seven tabs.
</para>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Film tab</title>
+<title>General</title>
<para>
-The ‘film’ tab contains settings that pertain to the whole film, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-film-tab"/>.
+The general tab is shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-general"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-film-tab">
- <title>Film settings tab</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-general">
+ <title>General preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/film-tab&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-general&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
-<para>
-The first thing here is the name. This is generally set to the title
-of the film that is being encoded. If <guilabel>Use DCI
-name</guilabel> is not ticked, the name that you specify will be used
-as-is for the name of the DCP. If <guilabel>Use DCI name</guilabel>
-is ticked, the name that you enter will be used as part of a
-DCI-compliant name.
-</para>
-<para>
-Underneath the name field is a preview of the name that the DCP will
-get. To use a DCI-compliant name, tick the <guilabel>Use DCI
-name</guilabel> checkbox. The DCI name will be composed using details
-of your content's soundtrack, the current date and other things that
-can be specified in the DCI name details dialogue box, which you can
-open by clicking on the <guilabel>Details</guilabel> button.
-</para>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Language</title>
<para>
-If the DCP name is long, it may not all be visible. You can see the
-full name by hovering the mouse pointer over the partial name.
+If you tick the <guilabel>Set Language</guilabel> checkbox and choose
+a language from the list, that language will be used for DCP-o-matic.
+You will need to restart DCP-o-matic to see the new language.
</para>
<para>
-The <guilabel>Trust content's header</guilabel> button starts off
-checked, and this means that DCP-o-matic will use the content's header
-information to determine its length. If, for some reason, this header
-length is wrong, uncheck the <guilabel>Trust content's
-header</guilabel> button and DCP-o-matic will run through the content
-to find its exact length. This may take a while for large pieces of content.
+The translations for DCP-o-matic have been contributed by helpful
+users. If your language is not on the last, head to <ulink
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/i18n.php">the DCP-o-matic website</ulink> to
+read about how to contribute a translation.
</para>
+</section>
-<para>
-Next up is the content type. This can be
-‘feature’, ‘trailer’ or whatever; select the
-required type from the drop-down list.
-</para>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Threads</title>
<para>
-The <guilabel>trim frames</guilabel> settings allow you to trim frames
-from the beginning and end of the content; any trimmed frames will not
-be included in the DCP.
+When DCP-o-matic is encoding DCPs it can use multiple parallel threads
+to speed things up. Set this value to the number of threads
+DCP-o-matic should use. This should normally be the number of
+processors (or processor cores) in your machine. DCP-o-matic will try
+to set this up correctly when you run it for the first time.
</para>
</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Video tab</title>
+<title>Cinema and screen database file</title>
<para>
-This tab contains settings related to the picture in your DCP, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-video-tab"/>.
+This option allows you to change the file that DCP-o-matic uses to
+store details of the cinemas and screens used to make KDMs.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-video-tab">
- <title>Video settings tab</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/video-tab&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
-</figure>
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<title>Integrated loudness</title>
<para>
-The first option on this tab is the format. This will govern the
-shape that DCP-o-matic will make your image into. Select the aspect
-ratio that your content should be presented in. The ‘4:3 within
-Flat’ and ‘16:9 within Flat’ settings will put the
-image at the specified ratio within a Flat (1.85:1) frame, so that you
-can project the DCP using your projector's Flat preset.
+If <guilabel>Find integrated loudness, true peak and loudness range
+when analysing audio</guilabel> 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 and audio analysis will be
+faster.
</para>
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Updates</title>
+
<para>
-The remaining options can often be left alone, but may sometimes be
-useful. The ‘crop’ settings can be used to crop your
-content, which can be used to remove black borders from round the
-edges of DVD images, for example. The specified number of pixels will
-be trimmed from each edge, and the content image in the right of the
-window will be updated to show the effect of the crop.
+The <guilabel>Check for updates on startup</guilabel> option, if
+enabled, will tell DCP-o-matic to check on <ulink
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/">dcpomatic.com</ulink> to see if there 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.
+available
</para>
<para>
-The ‘filters’ settings allow you to apply various video
-filters to the image. These may be useful to try to improve
-poor-quality sources like DVDs. We will discuss filtering later in the manual.
-<!-- XXX: link -->
+The <guilabel>Check for testing updates as well as stable
+ones</guilabel> option will also check for test updates as well as
+those that are formally ‘released’. This is useful if you
+like to live on the bleeding edge!
</para>
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Issuer and creator</title>
<para>
-The ‘scaler’ is the method that will be used to scale up
-your content to the required size for the DCP, if required. We will
-discuss the options in more detail later; Bicubic is a fine choice in
-most situations.
-<!-- XXX: link -->
+With these controls you can set the issuer and creator strings that
+will be put into the DCPs which you create.
</para>
+</section>
+
+</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Defaults</title>
<para>
-The ‘colour look-up table’ specifies the colour space that
-your input content will be expected to be in. If in doubt, leave it
-set to ‘sRGB’.
+The defaults tab is shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-defaults"/>.
</para>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-defaults">
+ <title>Defaults preferences</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-defaults&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</figure>
+
<para>
-Finally, the ‘JPEG2000 bandwidth’ setting changes how big the final
-image files used within the DCP will be. Larger numbers will give
-better quality, but correspondingly larger DCPs. The bandwidth can be
-between 50 and 250 megabits per second (MBps).
+The options in this tab simply allow you to set up default values for
+various properties of new films.
</para>
</section>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Audio tab</title>
+<title>Servers</title>
<para>
-This tab contains settings related to the sound in your DCP, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-audio-tab"/>.
+The servers tab is shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-servers"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-audio-tab">
- <title>Audio settings tab</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-servers">
+ <title>Servers preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/audio-tab&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-servers&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
+<para>
+If <guilabel>Use all servers</guilabel> is ticked DCP-o-matic will
+locate encoding servers automatically (see <xref
+linkend="ch-servers"/>).
+</para>
<para>
-‘Audio Gain’ is used to alter the volume of the
-soundtrack. The specified gain (in dB) will be applied to each sound
-channel before it is written to the DCP.
+Instead of this (or in addition) servers can be specified explicitly.
+To add a server, click <guilabel>Add...</guilabel> and enter the host
+name or IP address of the server to use.
</para>
+</section>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section xml:id="sec-prefs-keys">
+<title>Keys</title>
+
<para>
-If you use a sound processor that DCP-o-matic knows about, it can help
-you calculate changes in gain that you should apply. Say, for
-example, that you make a test DCP and find that you have to run it at
-volume 5 instead of volume 7 to get a good sound level in the screen.
-If this is the case, click the <guilabel>Calculate...</guilabel>
-button next to the audio gain entry, and the dialogue box in <xref
-linkend="fig-calculate-audio-gain"/> will open.
+The Keys tab (shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-keys"/>) holds options
+related to the keys and certificates used in some parts of DCP
+creation.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-calculate-audio-gain">
- <title>Calculating audio gain</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-keys">
+ <title>Keys preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/calculate-audio-gain&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-keys&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
-For our example, put 5 in the first box and 7 in the second and click
-<guilabel>OK</guilabel>. DCP-o-matic will calculate the audio gain
-that it should apply to make this happen. Then you can re-make the
-DCP (this will be reasonably fast, as the video data will already have
-been done) and it should play back at the correct volume with 7 on
-your sound-rack fader.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Current versions of DCP-o-matic only know about the Dolby CP750. If
-you use a different sound processor, and know the gain curve of its
-volume control, <ulink url="mailto:cth@carlh.net">get in
-touch</ulink>.
+At the top of the tab is the chain of certificates that will be used
+to sign DCPs and KDMs. DCP-o-matic creates a random chain when you
+first run it and if you are happy to use this chain you can ignore the
+preferences. Otherwise, you can add or remove certificates from the
+chain using the <guilabel>Add...</guilabel> and
+<guilabel>Remove</guilabel> buttons.
</para>
<para>
-‘Audio Delay’ is used to adjust the synchronisation
-between audio and video. A positive delay will move the audio later
-with respect to the video, and a negative delay will move it earlier.
+If you want DCP-o-matic to re-create the certificate chain (using new,
+random certificates) click <guilabel>Re-make
+certificates...</guilabel> and specify your organisation and common
+names in the dialogue box that opens.
</para>
<para>
-By default the <guilabel>Use content‘s audio</guilabel> button
-will be selected. This means that the DCP will use one of the
-soundtracks from your content file; you can select the soundtrack that
-you wish to use from the drop-down box.
+Underneath the certificate chain is the private key that corresponds
+to the leaf certificate in the chain. You can specify your own
+private key by clicking <guilabel>Load...</guilabel>. You must do
+this if you change the leaf certificate, so that the leaf private key
+corresponds to the public key held in the leaf certificate.
</para>
<para>
-Note that if your content's audio is mono, DCP-o-matic will place it
-in the centre channel in the DCP.
+Underneath the details of the certificate chain and private key for
+signing of DCPs and KDMs is a second chain and key which is used by
+DCP-o-matic when you import an encrypted DCP as a piece of content.
+The leaf certificate of this chain contains the public key that should
+be used when targeting a KDM at DCP-o-matic.
</para>
<para>
-Alternatively, you can supply different sound files by clicking the
-<guilabel>Use external audio</guilabel> button and choosing a WAV file
-for any channels that you want to appear in the DCP. These files can
-be any bit depth and sampling rate, and will be re-sampled and
-bit-depth converted if required.
+If you want to import an encrypted DCP you will need to give the
+decryption certificate to the distributor of the DCP so that they can
+generate a DKDM for you. You can save this certificate to disk by
+clicking <guilabel>Export DCP decryption certificate...</guilabel>. As
+with the signing chain, DCP-o-matic will create a certificate chain
+and private key for you. You can also choose to load your own
+certificates and key or re-make the chain and key with new, random
+values.
</para>
</section>
-<section>
-<title>Subtitles tab</title>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section xml:id="sec-prefs-tms">
+<title>TMS</title>
+<titleabbrev xml:id="sec-prefs-tms-short">TMS preferences</titleabbrev>
<para>
-This tab contains settings related to subtitles in your DCP, as shown in <xref linkend="fig-subtitles-tab"/>.
+The TMS tab (shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-tms"/>) gives some
+options for specifying details about your theatre management system
+(TMS). If you do this, and your TMS accepts SSH or FTP connections,
+you can upload DCPs directly from DCP-o-matic to the TMS using the
+<guilabel>Send DCP to TMS</guilabel> option in the
+<guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-subtitles-tab">
- <title>Subtitle settings tab</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-tms">
+ <title>TMS preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/subtitles-tab&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-tms&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
-DCP-o-matic will extract subtitles from the content, if present, and
-they can be ‘burnt into’ the DCP (that is, they are
-included in the image and not overlaid by the projector). Note that
-DVD and Blu-Ray subtitles are stored as bitmaps, so it is not possible
-(automatically) to use non-burnt-in subtitles with these sources.
-Select the <guilabel>With Subtitles</guilabel> checkbox to enable
-subtitles. The <guilabel>offset</guilabel> control moves the
-subtitles up and down the image, and the <guilabel>scale</guilabel>
-control changes their size.
+<guilabel>Protocol</guilabel> should be set to SCP or FTP as
+appropriate for your TMS. We know that the Arts Alliance Media (AAM)
+and the Doremi ranges uses SCP connections, and that Dolby's TMSs use
+FTP. Do let us know if you use any other type of TMS with the
+<guilabel>Send DCP to TMS</guilabel> feature.
</para>
<para>
-Future versions of DCP-o-matic will hopefully include the option to
-use text subtitles (as is the norm with most professionally-mastered
-DCPs).
+<guilabel>TMS IP address</guilabel> should be set to the IP address of
+your TMS, <guilabel>TMS target path</guilabel> to the place that DCPs
+should be uploaded to (which will be relative to the home directory of
+the SSH or FTP user). Finally, the user name and password are the
+credentials required to log into the TMS via SSH or FTP.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Note that for this to work on Doremi servers you will need to set the
+<code>PasswordAuthentication</code> option in your server's
+<code>sshd_config</code> to <code>yes</code>.
</para>
</section>
-</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Making the DCP</title>
+<title>KDM email</title>
<para>
-Now that we have set everything up, choose <guilabel>Make
-DCP</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu. 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 linkend="fig-making-dcp"/>.
+The KDM email is shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-kdm-email"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-making-dcp">
- <title>Making the DCP</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-kdm-email">
+ <title>KDM email preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/making-dcp&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-kdm-email&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
-When it has finished, the DCP will end up on your disk inside the
-film's folder. You can then copy this to a projector via a USB
-stick, hard-drive or network connection. See <xref
-linkend="ch-files"/> for details about the files that DVD-o-matic creates.
+This is a template for the email that is used to send KDMs out to
+cinemas. You can change it to say whatever you like. A few
+‘magic’ strings will be replaced by information from the
+KDM that is being sent:
</para>
+<table>
+<title>‘Magic’ KDM strings</title>
+<tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><code>$CPL_NAME</code></entry><entry>DCP title</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><code>$CINEMA_NAME</code></entry><entry>Cinema name</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><code>$SCREENS</code></entry><entry>Name of screen or screens that KDMs are being generated for</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><code>$START_TIME</code></entry><entry>The time from which the KDMs are valid</entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><code>$END_TIME</code></entry><entry>The time until which the KDMs are valid</entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+
<para>
-Alternatively, if you have a projector or TMS that is accessible via
-SCP across your network, you can upload the content directly from
-DCP-o-matic. See <xref linkend="sec-tms-upload"/>.
+The <guilabel>Reset to default text</guilabel> will replace the current KDM email with DCP-o-matic's default.
</para>
</section>
-</chapter>
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
-<title>Creating a still-image DCP</title>
-
-<para>
-DCP-o-matic can also be used to create DCPs of a still image, perhaps
-for an advertisement or an on-screen announcement. This chapter shows you
-how to do it.
-</para>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section xml:id="sec-prefs-advanced">
+<title>Advanced</title>
+<titleabbrev xml:id="sec-prefs-advanced-short">Advanced preferences</titleabbrev>
<para>
-As with video DCPs, the first step is to create a new
-‘Film’; select <guilabel>New</guilabel> from the
-<guilabel>File</guilabel> menu and the new film dialogue will open as
-shown in <xref linkend="fig-still-new-film"/>.
+The advanced preferences are shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs-advanced"/>.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-still-new-film">
- <title>Dialogue box for creating a new film</title>
+<figure id="fig-prefs-advanced">
+ <title>Advanced preferences</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/still-new-film&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs-advanced&scs;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>
-Enter a name and click <guilabel>OK</guilabel>. Then we set up the
-content; click the content selector as before, and this time we will
-choose an image file, as shown in <xref
-linkend="fig-still-select-content-file"/>.
+<guilabel>Maximum JPEG2000 bandwidth</guilabel> specifies the maximum
+bit-rate of JPEG2000 that DCP-o-matic will allow you to create. You
+are advised to leave this at 250Mbit/s in normal use for maximum DCP
+compatibility.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-still-select-content-file">
- <title>Selecting a still content file</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/still-select-content-file&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
-</figure>
-
<para>
-Setting up for a still image DCP is somewhat simpler than for a video;
-the tabs are all the same, but many options are removed and a few are added.
+<guilabel>Allow any DCP frame rate</guilabel> removes the limits on
+the DCP video frame rates that DCP-o-matic will create. This may be
+useful for experimentation. Again, you are strongly advised to leave
+this unticked for normal use.
</para>
<para>
-As with video, you can select a content type and the format (ratio)
-that your image should be presented in. It will be scaled and padded
-to fit the selected ratio, but in such a way that the pixel aspect
-ratio is preserved. In other words, the image will not be stretched,
-merely scaled; if you want to stretch your image, you will need to do
-so in a separate program before importing it into DCP-o-matic. You
-can also crop your image, if you so choose, and then set a duration
-(in seconds) that the image should appear on screen.
+<guilabel>Only servers encode</guilabel> makes DCP-o-matic encode
+JPEG2000 data only on encoding servers and not on the host. We
+suggest you leave this un-ticked unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
</para>
<para>
-Still-image DCPs can include sound; this can be added from the
-<guilabel>Audio</guilabel> tab. If your specified duration is shorter
-than the audio, the audio will be cut off at the duration; if it is
-longer, silence will be added after your audio.
+The four checkboxes labelled <guilabel>Log</guilabel> control what
+sort of messages DCP-o-matic writes to its log file when creating a
+DCP. It is useful to leave <guilabel>General</guilabel>,
+<guilabel>Warnings</guilabel> and <guilabel>Errors</guilabel> ticked
+as this makes the log files useful for tracking down bugs.
</para>
<para>
-Finally, as with video, you can choose <guilabel>Make DCP</guilabel>
-from the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu to create your DCP. This will
-be much quicker than creating a video DCP, as DCP-o-matic only needs
-to encode a single frame which it can then repeat.
+The <guilabel>Timing</guilabel> checkbox will enable extra log entries
+to allow developers to investigate and optimize the speed of
+DCP-o-matic. It will significantly increase the size of the log files
+that are generated, so in normal use it is best to leave this
+unticked.
</para>
+</section>
+</section>
</chapter>
-
-<chapter xml:id="ch-preferences" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
-<title>Preferences</title>
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en" xml:id="ch-frame-rates">
+<title>Frame rates</title>
<para>
-DCP-o-matic provides a few preferences which can be used to modify its
-behaviour. This chapter explains those options.
+In an ideal world, a DCP would be created using content at the same
+video frame and audio sampling rates as the DCP. This is not,
+however, always possible.
</para>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>The preferences dialogue</title>
+<title>DCP frame rate limitations</title>
<para>
-The preferences dialogue is opened by choosing
-<guilabel>Preferences...</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Edit</guilabel>
-menu. The dialogue is shown in <xref linkend="fig-prefs"/>.
+There are some limitations to video and audio frame rates in DCPs. This is
+complicated by the fact that not all projectors will play DCPs at the
+same frame rates. It is possible to create a DCP which one projector will
+play fine, but another (of a different type) will refuse to play, or
+even refuse to ingest.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-prefs">
- <title>Preferences</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/prefs&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
-</figure>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>TMS setup</title>
+<title>Guaranteed rates</title>
<para>
-The first part of the dialogue gives some options for specifying
-details about your TMS. If you do this, and your TMS accepts SSH
-connections, you can upload DCPs directly from DCP-o-matic to the TMS.
-This is discussed in <xref linkend="sec-tms-upload"/>.
+The only rates that are (pretty much) guaranteed to work on all DCI
+projectors are 24 frames per second (fps) for video and 48kHz or 96kHz
+for audio. If you are sending your DCPs to unknown places it wise to
+consider using these rates if at all possible.
</para>
-<para>
-<guilabel>TMS IP address</guilabel> should be set to the IP address of
-your TMS, <guilabel>TMS target path</guilabel> to the place that DCPs
-should be uploaded to (which will be relative to the home directory of
-the SSH user). Finally, the user name and password are the
-credentials required to log into the TMS via SSH.
-</para>
</section>
-<section>
-<title>Threads</title>
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Other often-supported rates</title>
<para>
-When DCP-o-matic is encoding DCPs it can use multiple parallel threads
-to speed things up. Set this value to the number of threads
-DCP-o-matic should use. This would typically be set to the number of
-processors (or processor cores) in your machine.
+Many projectors now in the wild support additional video frame rates:
+25, 30 and 48 fps.
</para>
-
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
-<title>Default directory for new films</title>
+<title>Adapting content to fit the DCP rate</title>
<para>
-This is the directory (folder) which DCP-o-matic will suggest initially as a place to put new films.
+DCP-o-matic has a few tricks to allow you to use content that is not
+in one of the ‘approved’ rates.
</para>
-</section>
-
-<section>
-<title>A/B options</title>
-
<para>
-These options are for DCP-o-matic's special mode of making A/B
-comparison DCPs for checking the performance of video filters. Their
-use is described in <xref linkend="sec-ab"/>.
+Audio is easy: DCP-o-matic can resample to 48kHz from any source rate
+with minimal loss in quality.
</para>
-</section>
-
-<section>
-<title>Encoding servers</title>
-
<para>
-If you have spare machines sitting around on your network not doing
-much, they can be pressed into service to speed up DCP encodes. This
-is done by running a small server program on the machine, which will
-encode video sent to it by the ‘master’ DCP-o-matic. This
-option is described in more detail in <xref linkend="sec-servers"/>.
-Use these preferences to specify the encoding servers that should be
-used.
+Video rate conversion is harder. DCP-o-matic's basic strategy to deal
+with a non-supported content rate is to run it at the wrong speed, and
+to adjust the audio to keep it in sync.
</para>
-</section>
-
-</section>
-</chapter>
-
-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
-<title>Advanced topics</title>
-
-<para>This chapter describes some parts of DCP-o-matic that are
-probably not essential, but which you might find useful in some
-circumstances.
+<para>Let us consider the example of a 25fps source for which you want
+to create a 24fps DCP. DCP-o-matic will put the frames from the
+source directly into the DCP without modification, but will tell the
+projector to play them back at 24fps. This means that the DCP's video
+will run slightly slower than the original.
</para>
-<section>
-<title>Filtering</title>
-
<para>
-DCP-o-matic offers a variety of filters that can be applied to your
-video content. You can set up the filters by clicking the
-<guilabel>Edit</guilabel> button next to the filters entry in the
-setup area of the DCP-o-matic window; this opens the filters selector
-as shown in <xref linkend="fig-filters"/>.
+If DCP-o-matic did nothing else, the result of this would be that the
+audio would be running at the original speed with the video running
+slowly. Hence the audio would drift slowly out of sync. To avoid
+this, DCP-o-matic also resamples the audio such that the projector
+will play it too slow by the same amount. Hence it will sound
+slightly different but will remain in sync with the video.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-filters">
- <title>Filters selector</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="screenshots/filters&scs;"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
-</figure>
-
<para>
-After changing the filters setup, you will need to regenerate the DCP
-to see the effect on the cinema screen. The preview in DCP-o-matic
-will update itself whenever filters are changed, though of course this
-image is much smaller and of lower resolution than a projected image!
+For very low or high frame rates, DCP-o-matic can also skip or duplicate frames.
</para>
</section>
-
-<section>
-<title>Scaling</title>
-
-<para>
-If your source material is not of the DCI-specified size, or if it
-uses non-square pixels, DCP-o-matic will need to scale it. The
-algorithm used to scale is set up by the <guilabel>Scaler</guilabel>
-entry in the film setup area. We think ‘Bicubic’ is the
-best all-round option, but tests are ongoing.
-</para>
-
</section>
-<section xml:id="sec-tms-upload">
-<title>TMS upload</title>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Setting up</title>
<para>
-If you have configured details of a TMS in the preferences dialogue
-(<xref linkend="ch-preferences"/>) you can upload a completed DCP
-straight to your TMS buy choosing <guilabel>Send DCP to TMS</guilabel>
-from the <guilabel>Jobs</guilabel> menu.
+The <guilabel>Frame Rate</guilabel> control in the
+<guilabel>DCP</guilabel> tab sets the video frame rate that the DCP
+will use. Clicking <guilabel>Use best</guilabel> sets the rate to
+what DCP-o-matic thinks is the best for your content. With this
+button, DCP-o-matic assumes that the whole range of frame rates (24,
+25, 30 and 48fps) are allowable.
</para>
-</section>
-
-
-<section xml:id="sec-ab">
-<title>A/B comparison</title>
-
<para>
-When evaluating the effects of different filters or scalers on the
-image quality, A/B mode might be useful. In this mode, DCP-o-matic
-will generate a DCP where the left half of the image uses some
-‘reference’ filtering and scaling, and the right half of
-the image uses a different set of filters and a different scaler.
-This DCP can then be played back on a projector and the image quality
-evaluated.
+After this, the <guilabel>Video</guilabel> tab for each piece of
+content will give a summary of what DCP-o-matic is doing with that
+content.
</para>
<para>
-To enable A/B mode, click the A/B checkbox in the setup area of the
-DCP-o-matic window. When you generate your DCP, the left half of the
-screen will use the filters and scaler specified in the <xref
-linkend="ch-preferences">preferences</xref> dialogue, and the right
-half will use the filters and scaler specified in the film setup.
+If you want to experiment with other non-standard frame rates, you can
+do so by ticking the <guilabel>Allow any DCP frame rate</guilabel> in
+the <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab of the preferences dialogue (see the
+<xref linkend="sec-prefs-advanced" endterm="sec-prefs-advanced-short"/>). You are strongly advised to
+use this only on your own equipment, and only for experimentation
+purposes.
</para>
</section>
-<section xml:id="sec-servers">
+</chapter>
+
+
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="en" xml:id="ch-servers">
<title>Encoding servers</title>
<para>
offload some of the time-consuming JPEG2000 encoding to any number of
other machines on a network. To do this, one ‘master’
machine runs DCP-o-matic, and the ‘server’ machines run
-a small program called ‘servomatic’.
+a small program called <code>dcpomatic_server</code>.
</para>
+<para>
+The master and server machines do not need to be the same type, so you
+can mix Windows PCs, Macs and Linux machines as you wish.
+</para>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Running the servers</title>
<para>
There are two options for the encoding server;
-<code>servomatic_cli</code>, which runs on the command line, and
-<code>servomatic_gui</code>, which has a simple GUI. The command line
+<code>dcpomatic_server_cli</code>, which runs on the command line, and
+<code>dcpomatic_server</code>, which has a simple GUI. The command line
version is well-suited to headless servers, especially on Linux, and
the GUI version works best on Windows where it will put an icon in the
system tray.
</para>
<programlisting>
-servomatic_cli
+dcpomatic2_server_cli
</programlisting>
<para>
</para>
<programlisting>
-servomatic_cli -t 4
+dcpomatic2_server_cli -t 4
</programlisting>
<para>
server or open a window to show its status.
</para>
+<para>If you would rather not bother installing DCP-o-matic on your
+server computers, the other option is to use the live-CD
+image that you can download from the <ulink
+url="http://dcpomatic.com/">DCP-o-matic web site.</ulink></para>
+
+<para>Either burn the image to CD, or write it to a USB stick (using
+something like <ulink
+url="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/">unetbootin</ulink>). Boot a
+PC from the CD or USB stick and it becomes a DCP-o-matic server
+without touching your standard operating system install.
+</para>
+
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Setting up DCP-o-matic</title>
<para>
-Once your servers are running, you need to tell your master
-DCP-o-matic instance about them. Start DCP-o-matic and open the
-<guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> dialog from the
-<guilabel>Edit</guilabel> menu. At the bottom of this dialog is a
-section where you can add, edit and remove encoding servers. For each
-encoding server you need only specify its IP address and the number of
-threads that it is running, so that DCP-o-matic knows how many
-parallel encode jobs to send to the server.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-Once this is done, any encodes that you start will split the workload
-up between the master machine and the servers.
+DCP-o-matic periodically looks on the local network for servers. Any
+that it finds are given work to do during encodes. Selecting
+<guilabel>Encoding Servers</guilabel> from the
+<guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu brings up a window which shows that
+servers that DCP-o-matic has found.
</para>
</section>
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
<section>
<title>Some notes about encode servers</title>
provide a significant speed-up compared to a 100Mb/s network.
</para>
-<para>
-Making changes to the server configuration in the master DCP-o-matic
-will have no effect while an encode is running; the changes will only
-be noticed when a new encode is started.
-</para>
-
-</section>
</section>
</chapter>
after you have created a DCP for a film called ‘DCP Test’.
</para>
-<figure id="fig-file-structure">
- <title>Creating a new film</title>
+<figure id="fig-file-structure">
+ <title>Creating a new film</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="diagrams/file-structure&dia;"/>
- </imageobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata scale="100" fileref="diagrams/file-structure&dia;"/>
+ </imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
Following this is the DCP itself:
<code>DCP-TEST_EN-XX_UK-U_51_2K_CSY_20130218_CSY_OV</code>. This
contains some small XML files, which describe the DCP, and two large
-MXF files, which contain the DCP's audio and video data. This folder
+MXF files, which contain the DCP's audio and video data. It may also
+contain subtitles in either XML or MXF format. This folder
(<code>DCP-TEST_EN-XX_...</code>) is what you should ingest, or pass
to the cinema which is showing your DCP.
</para>
</chapter>
+<chapter>
+<title>Loose ends</title>
+
+<para>
+This chapter collects a few notes on bits of DCP-o-matic that do not fit elsewhere in the manual.
+</para>
+
+
+<!-- ============================================================== -->
+<section>
+<title>Resuming encodes</title>
+
+<para>
+If you cancel a DCP encoding run half-way through, or your computer
+crashes... fear not. DCP-o-matic takes care to ensure that, in most
+cases, it can resume encoding from where it left off. When you
+re-start a DCP creation, using the same settings are a previous run,
+DCP-o-matic will first check that the existing picture frames are
+correct, and then resume from where it left off. The checking of
+existing frames does take some time, but it is much faster than
+running a full re-encode.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This resumption is achieved by writing a digest (hash) to disk for
+every image frame that is written. On resumption, the existing MXF
+file for image data is read and its contents checked against the
+hashes.
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+</chapter>
</book>
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