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Problem synchronizing multiple computer
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:05 am
by retake7
Hello, i m doing a project with multiple computers connected with OSC.
I have a problem because my videos are unsync after a while. I use 2 mac book pro and max/msp. my compression is in H264. And my videos last for one hour...
Thanks for your reply
retake7
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:03 pm
by mowgli_uk
I really don't see how you'd keep the videos in synch when they're an hour long!
You'd need some sort of timecode on the videos.
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:42 pm
by sigmasix
it's really hard to keep videos synched… I did a project with 3 video projectors and three videos overlayed with the projector, they were triggered at the same time using a module on three different layers. after 2 or 3 loops, they started to get 1 or 2 frames difference… So Imagine with different computers… even if they are all exactly the same model with the same configuration, I think you won't be able to have all perfectly synched.
What you can try is to have short clips and resynch (re-trigger) the clips once in a while…
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:52 pm
by skipzone88
I had this problem. I used an external midi sequencer to re-trigger videos on the 2 macs before QT's on each machine began to drift.
QT has timecode embedded into it. we need a module to read the timecode and allow sequencing triggering from within M8.
No more real problems
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:39 pm
by retake7
Now I have two laptop macbook pro new generation 8 gb Ram, and the latency is really thin.... Even with an 4 Go video loaded