garageCube

I have just downloaded version 2 and it basically freezez my machine for about 10 min (presumably while loading clips) and then is still terribly slow, running at about 1 frame per second or even 1 per 10 seconds. i have run both v1 and v2 beta successfully in the past and just tried both of them again after installing version 2 and they work fine as expected. very fast as usual. what is happening. can someone help?

cheers

dr.mo

- What is your configuration ?
- What is the latest beta version of Modul8 you tried ? The beta 4 ?
- Does the beta still work ?

i have a 1.33Ghz G4 12" powerbook with 512MB Ram using tiger.

the version of the beta is 3 i believe. and yes it still works and is comparable in speed to v1.

Please update to the final version.

Yves.

i am using the final version, unless you have released a new one since tuesday?

what i was saying is that the beta 3 version 2 and the old v.1.1 run absolutley fine on my system yet v2 - which i downloaded this week - is extreemly slow.

drmo wrote:i am using the final version, unless you have released a new one since tuesday?

what i was saying is that the beta 3 version 2 and the old v.1.1 run absolutley fine on my system yet v2 - which i downloaded this week - is extreemly slow.

Ah... Ok. Sorry I did not understand your point... It seems that we can reproduce your problem on a machine here, I'll try to find a fix ASAP..

Yves.

that's encouraging. thanks

I don't know, I have seen an increase of speed from previous betas in the final version and I've got a G3 processor!

If you start Modul8 without a document and you drag only one movie, do you have the same problem ?
If you apply an auto-rotate, is it slow ?
Is the user-interface slows (moving sliders, etc.) ?

Also please could you write us an email, so I can send you test versions.

Thanks,
Yves.

i have written you an email - and you responded to it!?

will post a's to your q's as soon as i get the chance to play with m8 v2

in response to your forum post:


>If you start Modul8 without a document and you drag only one movie, do you have the same problem ?

no, the startup is fast - it's when i load a project in that it takes ages. single clips load fine and play fine.

>If you apply an auto-rotate, is it slow ?

no

>Is the user-interface slows (moving sliders, etc.) ?

yes, and no.i have installed some more memory on my laptop since i discovered the problem. i used to have 512mb - and at that stage literally everything came to a halt. i wasn't even able to quit modul8. none of the menus were working. now i have 1.25GB and it's certainly alot faster. the user interface seems to be responsive now, but while the clips are loading the playback rates is very slow and unpredictable.

i have discovered another problem i believe to be quite severe - something i never noticed with the previous version. when i use the transparency slider to mix layers i find that a clips that had been set to full transparency appear momentarily stationary when i fade them back to visible. i do this kind of mixing very frequently so i find this is a real problem for me

It seems that I am having some of the same problems with the final version. I did a gig this past weekend and I openend up a file that I have been using for the past few months and the frame rate seemed really slow. It would seem to pause a frame every second. It was a very constistant jitter. I restarted the program many times which didn't seem to help. I disconnected everything so it was just a hard drive and a mouse but still now change in the speed. I opened a new file and added a single clip. It seemed to work ok.
I didn't have time to rebuild my scenes so I ended up going back to the beta 4 and it worked flawlessly. With the beta 4 a 3 hour set worked great. After the show I opened up the final version again and still the same frame jitter problem. My configuration is:

G5 Dual 2gig
3.5 gig ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
G-Raid FW800 drive into a LaCie FW800 Card.
OS Tiger

I've never had this problem before. I still think it is the greatest VJ program. I hope it's something simple.

Thank you.

This problem has been identified and will be fixed very soon.

Any chance of this being solved by friday? (oh no... not another rush to beat the clock)

chromafresh wrote:Any chance of this being solved by friday? (oh no... not another rush to beat the clock)

It should be released by friday... if everything goes right