Resolution Confusion

B Simms_ · Post by **B Simms_** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 22:32

I'm editing a load of loops and clips for use with resolume - as I'm *really* new to this, I was wondering what I need to do in order to have smooth crisp 800x600 playback for the output.

Reccomended Codecs?

jim_ · Post by **jim_** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 06:55

get a VERY fast pc! and use either cinepak or indeo codecs

mike ho_ · Post by **mike ho_** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 15:48

or midivid codec (but still BEAST machine)

Superficial_ · Post by **Superficial_** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 17:23

Hi B,

800x600 sounds undoable to me...
ive been working with a 1,7 Ghz P4 with a Matrox Parhelia 265 Mb videocard and 1 Gb of ram but those were all 320x240 clips...
even if i tried 1 high res movie it still flickers when u trigger the movies fast...
its not only playback u have to worry about but disc-room and the way movies load and stuff like that also...

maybe a dual processor machine is an idea but you have to start saving for those machines, because they are freekin expensive.

dont want to burst your bubble but i think we are a couple of years away from 800x600 playback...

maybe your best luck is a mac version of resolume.
my gues is with the new G5 800x600 playback will be doable.

Greetz SuperficiaL

B!_ · Post by **B!_** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 20:23

Thanks for the info -

I figured 800x600 might be pushing a little too far - despite the machine I run:
P4 2.4
Asus P4P800-Deluxe
2x80GB 8MB Cache Drives
A crappy 64mb video card.
1GB DDR

Mainly, I'm just concerned with clean visuals - If I'm running and LCD Project that does 800x600 (and a really decent 1024x768 Interpolated) and I decide to run clips, I want to get the maximum effect and good resolution is what makes or breaks it. When I run my underwater deep sea whales / sharkes clips, I want ravers shocked with awe, or dead from fright

Anyone have any advice on getting the highest res (not necessisarily 800x600) with *smooth* playback? Your tips & Tricks are greatly appreciated.

B.

slolov_ · Post by **slolov_** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 20:33

Maybee you should try to get some Ultra 160 SCSI-harddisks running at 10.000 rpm and play the clips from those disks. I don't think running Resolume on a dual-processor will increase the performance of Resolume because i don't think it's written to make use of a dual-processor system yet. I could be wrong.

ether_warpTV_ · Post by **ether_warpTV_** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 03:40

resolume uses mostly the graphics card to process the "mix", so first of all you will need a good card. After that you get into hard-drive speed issues - a RAID array would be the business i would think, if you want to run several layers of highres footage.
I have tested a p4 2.2 with a geforce4 Ti 4600 that handled 3 layers of 640x480 cinepak movies - started to drop frame rate once effects went on tho.
Also tested a p4 1.8 with a parhelia - also ran 3 layers of 640x480 OK. (both had UATA100 drives).
Unfortunatley cinepak is a pretty crappy codec, so even at that res it didn't look much better than 320x240 clips with very little compression.
The other option is use resolume to run a triggered mix, then use a DVD or a second PC to run a high-res layer into the mix via a hardware mixer (what we do).

ether_warpTV_ · Post by **ether_warpTV_** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 03:42

btw - the new version of Vidvox (called Grid) is designed to run completely in DV mode.
...only for mac tho

B!_ · Post by **B!_** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 18:45

Re: ether warpTV

Thanks for the useful info mang! You know daddy just dropped bills for the Western Digital Raptor Drive (it's as good as the maxtor atlas III, and it's SATA!) and an FX5600 Vivo. Got any reccomendations on which codec to use?

But this Vidvox Grid.... dang play-ah.

"Who's the muthafuka dropin bills on a G5? - B!"
"Watch your mouth!"
"But I'm talkin'bout DV Res"
"Then We Can dig it."