A simple query

[Solarjm]

Hi. I'm new to the forum and recently got into vj'ing. After several years of bedroom dj'ing I want to try and add some visuals to my mixes.
I only have a pc and don't have access to other soft/hardware.

The problem I have got is I can't seem to work out how to just load in an audio mix and process my visuals in resolume 4. All my mixes are a single file .mp3 @ 145bpm

Could anyone please point me in the right direction.

Cheers

[Basic]

I just took this from the manual. It may help

Preparing Media

Choosing how to encode your content is critical in audio-visual performance. The codec (Compressor / Decompressor) that you choose will affect how much processor time is used to decompress each video frame. This in turn will determine how many layers of smoothly playing video you can use and how many audio effects you can apply.

For the very best performance in Resolume you should use the Resolume DXV codec. It is by far the fastest codec because Resolume can decompress the video frames on the GPU instead of the CPU.

We highly recommend rendering the audio and video in separate files and joining them together in a clip in Avenue instead of rendering a video file that also contains audio.

Keeping the audio and video in separate files is better for your work-flow. If you want to change the audio of a clip and not the video you only have to re-save the audio file instead of rendering the entire video file with the audio again.

The audio and video is often created using different software, sometimes even by different people. By combining the audio and video files in Avenue you can create the music in your favourite audio software and create the video in your video app of choice.
There is another problem with including audio in video files - it limits the BPMs that can be used. When rendering a video file with audio, the length of the file is quantized to the number of frames of the video. This makes it impossible for audio to loop seamlessly at certain tempos.
For example, using PAL video format at 25 frames per second, it is not possible to create a one bar AV loop at 90BPM that will loop perfectly. The closest we can get is a 66 frame long clip, but that will actually be at around 90.9 BPM
Avenue transposes the video to the length of the audio in a clip to create a perfectly looping audio visual clip.
Video

On both Mac and Windows we recommend Quicktime files using the DXV Codec. For a detailed guide on how to export with most major video applications, check here.
Resolution

You should be able to use video files that are minimum 640x480 pixels in size using any of these codecs. Using 320x240 is so year 2000. Use square pixels, do not interlace and render every frame as a key frame.

PAL resolution with square pixels is 768x576. NTSC resolution with square pixels is 720x540.

Audio

Don't compress audio. Period. Don't do it. Save it to an uncompressed (linear PCM) .wav file. Avenue needs very fast access to the audio data, leaving it uncompressed enables this. Uncompressed audio files are relatively small compared to uncompressed video files so reducing the file size with compression is not necessary.
Sample rate & bit depth

In most cases using a sample rate of 44,100 kHz and a bit depth of 16 bit is fine.
DXV Codec

The Resolume DXV Video Codec is a hardware (GPU) accelerated codec. The decompression of the video frames is done directly on the video card. Because of the enormous processing power available on today's video cards you can work on much higher resolutions and frame-rates with the DXV Codec with much lower CPU and RAM usage.
The DXV Codec is a cross-platform Quicktime codec so you can use from any video application that supports rendering to the Quicktime (.mov) file format on the Mac and PC. Applications that are supported: Quicktime Player Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Sony Vegas, Maya, Etc.
Rendering movies with the DXV Codec is extremely easy because there is nothing to configure. No quality settings, no data rate, no key-frames, nothing. It is pre-configured to be as fast as possible. All you have to do is select the DXV Codec and start rendering.
Playback of video files with the DXV codec is only hardware accelerated when played in Avenue. When a DXV video is played with any other software (like the Quicktime player) it is not rendered by the videocard so there is no performance gain in other software but Avenue.

Alpha Channel

Starting with version 2.0 the DXV codec can also store the alpha channel. On the codec compression settings window set the Alpha Channel to "preserve" and you're ready to start rendering. DXV version 2.0 only works with Resolume version 3.2 and higher.