Audio/Visual Piece Troubles

[Geologic]

Ok so I really need help with something. I am am doing an AV piece for my capstone project for school and the visual aspect is not lining up as well as I had hoped. I am fairly new to Resolume and have not done any real projects with it until now. Everything I import into Resolume just ends up looking like garbage. Either it is really stretched out looking or there is a lag in the playback of the video files. What I had planned to do, is create the visual content in max/msp and houdini and other places I know how to use, and just import all of the stuff into Resolume to play around with. I will then have my audio file in Resolume and record a performance of the visuals. Right now, I only have about five or six clips in my session and the whole thing is lagging like crazy. I need all the advice I can get on how I could best execute this project.
Thanks!

[drazkers]

Sounds like your not using dxv for your video codec. Wouldn't be surprised if your not using uncompressed wavs either.

[Zoltán]

Right now, I only have about five or six clips in my session and the whole thing is lagging like crazy.

Playback performance will largely depend on what video card you have in your machine, don't expect much with an integrated card.
Also as Drazkers said, the file format also matters, you get the best performance out of Resolume using DXV encoded video and uncompressed audio.
If possible use an SSD for storage.
If you don't have a dedicated video card, you can get more performance using lower composition and file resolutions.
The recording feature in Resolume 5 is not really meant and designed for long run recordings, it's designed to create short loops of video/audio. Recording and playback performance in Resolume 6 is much improved, but if you have trouble playing 6 layers of clips, the recordings won't be smooth either.
In that case it's best to use another machine with a capture card to record your output.