What is your composition setting size / fps ?

[vide0junki3]

hey all, just wondering what comp size most people use and what fps they get with their setups?

I've been using 800 x 600 for now, and getting 35-60fps which has been fine. But I want to get a matrox th2go and run a comp size that's 2 or 3 times the width, and putting that in resolume has killed my fps.

Whats the lowest res that you guys recommend using, bearing in mind it's in a club environment?

I've noticed that stock footage on this site, and some others comes at 640 x 480 and lower, should I take this as a hint that most people work at this size?

I'm running a MBP unibody with 256mb gfx card btw ...

[pleasuretek]

Currently I am still using 640x480 (picVideo MJPEG codec) and with 4 layers and about 5 effects (mirror, trail, displace..) it rarely drops below 60fps (occasionally 59.xx or 57.xx). specs of machine are in signature (running win7x64Pro)

I have used these samples across a dualhead2go (2048x768 resolution) and it looked OK (in a club environment). It could of been cleaner but no different than if I used composite rather than VGA. You could see the physical pixels of the projector on the wall more than pixels from stretching the video..

I am in the process of rendering my footage (most of it is screenCaps from VVVV originally done at 2048x2048) to 1280x720 DXV codec, but it takes a while. My 2.8GHz quad has been crunching for about 3 weeks now and is almost halfway done... Hopefully an E-SATA drive is fast enough to read some of them as internal drive has limited space and 1280x720 clips are big. I will post HDTune of E-SATA when I get one... A solid state big enough to hold my entire set (and most of my gigs go till dawn) is really far out of the question for a few years.

the point is 1280x720 will stretch much nicer to 2048x768 or 1920x480, it will also work on a single projector. And any tri-linear/bi-cubic scaling will look cleaner over VGA than native resolution carried over composite.