Resolume Forum

Hey everyone,
I would like to ask a question regarding a very challenging project for a museum.
We need to map a 24min video with resolution 6480/1080. 5sec video with a dxv 3/normal quality/no Alpha coder export takes up to 300mb of storage. This is means that the 24min video would take up to 85gb of storage. The machine that will reproduce the video with arena 5 installed in it has a the GTX 980 ti graphics card. Do you think i would be fine with it? Any suggestions? I would like to use dxv with arena in order for the video processing to take place at the graphics card. Can i lower down somehow else the file size?

Thanks in advance,

Why are you worried about the file size? Does you computer not have a hard drive big enough?

you could try converting to mov, with uncompressed audio, and h264video,
if you just play the movie, no backward or random playing, that should be fine, assuming your cpu can play it realtime.
edit: but your machine would be fine with DXV if your HDD can handle that 60MB/sec.

@ ravensc, I'm just not sure why the file size of the DXV file would be an issue!

@ 2mc, as long as you have enough room on your hard drive including some free space, you could have huge DXV files and they'll run the same way a small DXV file would run. I run large DXV files regularly with no issues whatsoever.

If you do have the room on your drive, I would actually render in high quality!

Thanks guys, this was helpful! I think i will go with the dxv since ssd hard drive can store it.
Cheers

Oaktown wrote:@ ravensc, I'm just not sure why the file size of the DXV file would be an issue!

if you are running that content from a separate SSD that should be fine,
but from a HDD that is accessed by another application the read speeds can drop significantly to the point the playback drops frames.

if you are running that content from a separate SSD that should be fine,
but from a HDD that is accessed by another application the read speeds can drop significantly to the point the playback drops frames.

I always run my media on the same SSD as the application and I have absoluteley no issues.

Also, I really think these days using a HDD is asking for trouble when it comes to media server software.

Oaktown wrote: Also, I really think these days using a HDD is asking for trouble when it comes to media server software.

I agree

I aggress too, def go with a SSD, depending on what motherboard you have you can go with a regular SSD like a Samsung EVO 850, they are pretty cheap these days.

Or if you have a M.2 or PCI-E Gen 3 connector go with a Samsung 950 Pro NVMe, thats what I am using. They are insane fast.

As an alternative to M.2, 3 256GB Samsung Pro 850 in Raid 0 on a SATA 6G is also super fast and fairly cheap (~$350 for a 750GB Raid 0 setup)