garageCube

[The Midi Thief]

Bart,is this why you're so edgy today?
http://www.resolume.com/avenue/dxv.php

Apparently Resolume has their own DXV codec going (as noticed by videomasta in another thread).

It's hardware accellerated but even if the codec will work in other programs, the hardware acelleration will only work in Resolume.

When will we see a Garagecube/Modul8 codec?

[The Midi Thief]

Or actually, this whole thread looks like a pretty sleek guerilla marketing scam by Resolume for the new DXV codec. Interesting discussion no matter what.

[ilan]

It actually is. But that's OK.

[auspuff]

Bart,is this why you're so edgy today?

Or actually, this whole thread looks like a pretty sleek guerilla marketing scam by Resolume for the new DXV codec.

Uhhm how can my post from Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:57 pm be a "marketing scam" today?

[deepvisual]

apple intermediate codec.

PNG+

thats all you need to know

[rolin]

apple intermediate codec.

PNG+

thats all you need to know

Oh no and I thought our decision has finally been made!

PNG seems to be a great alternative for the animation codec,
but thanks to deepvisual I have to ask:

what's the advantage of Apple's Intermediate codec over Photo JPG?

AIC does not use temporal compression, which is good (Resolume also points that out for their new DXV codec), but PJPG also doesn't use it.

Photo-JPEG codec requires significant amounts of CPU power and large image and/or high frame rate movies usually don't play smoothly according to some research.

[ilan]

@rolin,

I am curious about your frame rate problems with Pjpeg playing them back in m8. Have you tried different frame rates?

[rolin]

@rolin,

I am curious about your frame rate problems with Pjpeg playing them back in m8. Have you tried different frame rates?

in that special case the source of the problem is kind of clear …
we've used MJPG (so far) and
several layers of 1024x576 footage scaled down to a 4:3 PAL output

That simply was kind of a stupid setup and ended up in massive CPU usage,
but it was due to a rushed change of plans on site,
so I had to resize the clips to 4:3 PAL while performing live w/ M8 (thanks to our MACs and Compressor that worked like a charm!).

What different frame rate do you use or what would you suggest as a minimum frame rate?

The reason why I am so keen on an final answer is,
that we want to optimise the playback and
therefor would re-render our whole library and
I only want to do that once

Many thanx to everyone for the help so far!

[Emily]

Thanks for taking the time to help, I really apprciate it.

[4youreye]

this is also one of our biggest problem in m8. the frame rate of 25fps or 30 fps is not 100% accurate. especially when using big resolutions. linear slow moving content is the highest task to m8. we use m8 for a long time not also for vjing but also as a media server for multiscreen setups and there an accurate framerate is one of the most important issue.
we used all different kind of codecs and at the moment prores seems to give us the best results. prores4444 also has the alpha channel.
but still it is not possible to playback high resolution material (full HD or higher) with absolutely no framedrops.
on the other side also the quicktime player is not able to playback video with absolutely no framedrops. it seems that this is an issue nearer to the os core than to m8.
gery

[ilan]

Hello Gery... thanks for the notes on how you are using m8 and especially ProRes.