Thread: New DDP Export
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Old 10-19-2012, 03:59 PM   #310
anrug
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Originally Posted by WyattRice View Post
Is this part not working?
I'm redirecting the standard output from ddpinfo, and cdrecord and it is being displayed in my gui's text box in real time.
Sorry, my fault. I checked again and it does show the output correctly. Only when writing cue/wav images, there should be a kind of textual progress bar with dots. No idea, why that does not work.

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Originally Posted by WyattRice
Andreas,
would it also be possible for you to add a way to print out a pq sheet from ddpinfo?
Certainly, in fact the whole purpose of ddpinfo is to show the content of DDP masters, part of which is the PQ listing.

Now to the details. Do you really mean printing directly from ddpinfo? Or wouldn't it be much more flexible to create the PQ listing as a file, which can be printed? ddpinfo outputs to screen by default, but you can always redirect the output to a file (like "ddpinfo MyDDP > MyReport.txt"). So the next question is, what format would you like.?I'd think that HTML is a good candicate, because it's easier to create than e.g PDF, and can be made to look quite appealing with CSS.

Second question: what exactly do you mean by PQ listing. Traditionally, a PQ listing has the timings, flags, and some sort of text label for each track. Because this text label was not written to CD, it is not included in some CD image formats, e.g. DDP.

Technically this has changed, when CD Text was introduced by Sony as an optinal extension to the Red Book standard. Now a DDP can include CD text titles for each track. But CD text is mainly for car stereo with a limited display. So CD text titles are usually hand crafted for a poor display situation. It might not be what you want to send as PQ listing to the plant or a customer (label or musician).

However: if your DDP has CD text and if you are happy with those titles being used in a PQ listing, then ddpinfo can of course do the job. I've often sent the printout of ddpinfo's output to the plant, it's very precise.
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