autopilot setting confusion

[mowgli]

I'm finding the different settings for autopilot confusing.
If I set a layer to play forward, it will play each clip for the allocated amount of time it's set to on "timeline" before playing the next clip. If my clip is set to play to BPM sync, it plays the set amount of beats before moving on, but sometimes for no apparent reason it plays double that ie if it's 8 beats it will play for 16, why is this?

For example, I might want to play a 4 beat clip for 8, 16 or whatever number of beats before it switches. I tried using the "beat snap" function on the following clip to achieve this by setting it to 1 bar or whatever but then the next clip never triggers! I get a full progress bar on the clip that should be triggering next but it never does. What's going on?

I'm also confused as to whether I should use layer autopilot controls or the clips autopilot settings or both together.

All this is for an installation that needs to run itself.

thanks

[bart]

If my clip is set to play to BPM sync, it plays the set amount of beats before moving on, but sometimes for no apparent reason it plays double that ie if it's 8 beats it will play for 16, why is this?

It should not play 16 beats if it's just 8 beats long. I think you've just into a bug, could you try raising or lowring the audio buffer size in the Preferences?

[mowgli]

I have tried that to no avail. It seems quite random. Sometimes they play the correct number of beats sometimes double.

[Joris]

It could actually be you are running into a known bug. Are you also experiencing this with AV clips?

[mowgli]

haven't tried with av clips, I'll do a test.

[Joris]

(let's keep the discussion in this thread).

The bug we know of (which affects only video clips, not audio or AV clips) is caused by a tiny delay in the autopilot triggering, which will make a clip play again instead of moving on the next clip. We assumed it was fixed, but if you could confirm that it is the same bug, we'll look into it again.

Even when fixed, using the autopilot to sequence clips like this is a workaround at best. Adding copies of a clip is the only way to reliably do this. We are researching better sequencing and timeline options for Resolume 5, but in its current form, Resolume was not really meant for this.