Playback#

Play a recorded take back in the browser, without taking the card out. Frames are decoded from the CinemaDNG files on the card as you play — nothing is transcoded, and nothing is written back to the take.

Playback runs at the conform frame rate, so a take shot faster than the conform rate plays as slow motion, at the speed it will run on the timeline.

Reaching it#

The pane is a tab in the settings editor:

http://cinepi.local:5000/settings-editor/

Choose Playback · review takes. Over the camera's own hotspot the settings editor is at http://10.42.0.1:5000/settings-editor/ (see Configuring the Wi-Fi hotspot).

Choosing a take#

The take strip heads the pane, listing every take across mounted storage with a thumbnail from its first frame. Picking one loads it into the player below and scrolls you down to it. Each card shows the take name, its frame count and its recorded frame rate, plus badges:

Sort orders the strip: oldest first (the default — shooting order, so the first take is leftmost and each later one to its right), newest first, or largest first. The same three orders are offered on the RAW files pane.

View picks the shape: one row, which scrolls sideways and keeps the player in sight on a card with a lot of takes, or grid, which wraps every take onto the screen at once for picking one out visually.

Neither disturbs what is on the player. The selected take keeps playing and simply moves.

Playing#

Transport controls sit under the picture: first frame, previous frame, PLAY, next frame, last frame, and a loop toggle. Drag anywhere on the filmstrip to scrub — it holds sixteen frames sampled evenly across the take, with the playhead marking the current position. The take's name and the elapsed position show over the top of the picture.

Playing again from the last frame restarts from the beginning unless loop is on.

Playback speed and the conform frame rate#

Playback is paced by settings.conform_frame_rate (see Settings file), not by the rate the take was shot at. That is the point: what you see is what the take will do once it is conformed in post.

• A take shot above the conform rate plays as slow motion. 50 fps on a 25 fps conform plays at 0.50×.
• A take shot below it plays fast.
• A take shot at it plays at 1.00×.

Turn Use conform frame rate off to play each take at the rate it was shot instead.

Take metadata#

Everything in this row is read from the take's own DNG files, not from what the camera is set to now — so an old take reads correctly even if the camera has been reconfigured since.

FPS, Resolution, Depth and Sensor come straight from the frame's tags. Depth is the take's original/source depth, not necessarily the literal BitsPerSample stored in the file — a log-encoded take compresses to 10-bit for storage, and showing that number instead of what the take was actually shot at (12-bit SDR or 16-bit ClearHDR) was more confusing than useful. Look for LOG10 if you want to know whether that compression happened. The grey boxes to the right are: