Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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theLABVisuals
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Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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I'm trying to replicate the Resolume countdown I put together many years ago and have noticed some erratic timekeeping behaviour on playback. Individually each layer seems to behave, although there is some lag, and in some cases skipping of PNG.

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The composition and all images are https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4ij8caw299ja ... q_sUa?dl=0

I know I can record the individual components as videos and use those, however it could be a timing glitch overall.
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Re: Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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The clips are 00:00:00:08 long, What happens if you make 0-9 at 1 frame, another 0-9 at 1 second, and the last 0-9 at 1 min in length?
I also converter the png's to a dxv3 but didn't notice any difference

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Re: Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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The are PNG's. So setting the length in clip, should under Autopilot work.
As mentioned, if a layer is run individually then it appears to keep better time.
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Re: Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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I'd try converting the images to Image sequence DXVs ;)
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Re: Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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Yuup I know that. It's not a fix though, if theres an issue within Resolume isn't this what the forum is all about?

I made the render anyway, just longhanded.
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Re: Erratic timekeeping behaviour 7.1.2.

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PNG-s are far from ideal to run as content.
When decoding and uploading of the png is not finished before the next render pass, the timing of the clip will be off compared to the other clips.
In your top layer you try to display 100 pngs a second with the auto pilot. That would need 100FPS playback so they are all visible, but the composition FPS you get is 22. Auto pilot is evaluated at every render pass, you get 22 render passes a second, so you get lots of missed auto pilot actions because of the much higher rate you expect. That's why your layers go out of sync.

Loading the 0-9 pngs as 4x image sequence clips and switching off auto pilot, already gets me back to 60 FPS on my macbook with quite perfect timing: https://resolume.com/support/en/stills#image-sequences
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