[PD] GEM: speed of pix_film (fps) manipulation

[shreeswifty]

ok thisis a little OT, but what DATA RATE are folks using for 
smooth playing movies?

I recall from the installation i was running a G5, with like 4- 
8GB movies playing very smoothly on my laptop of course is a bit 
stuttery.
i have been dumping out of final cut as DV-NTSC

Sorenson3 lets me tweal Data Rate but at picture cost.

any tips or hints?

Pat


On Mon Oct 04 16:07:54 EDT 2004, James Tittle II <tigital at mac.com> 
wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2004, at 9:36 PM, oliver wrote:
>> 
>> i noticed that the [auto 1(   message to a pix_Movie object 
>> plays the
>> movie much smoother than the  "number into right inlet" method. 
>> what's
>> the reason for this ?  is there something that can be done about 
>> it ?
> 
> ...if you are playing a movie via the right inlet method, you 
> definitely want to set a higher frame rate in 
> [gemwin]...otherwise, by default you'll be poking along at 20fps, 
> which might not be as smooth as ya want...
> 
>>> ...also, you can just sent a [auto $1< message to the left 
>>> inlet:  this then tells the object to play a new frame for 
>>> everytime it goes thru the render loop...and of course, this 
>>> render loop speed is set by sending the [frame $1< message to 
>>> the [gemwin]:  don't make it faster than your computer can 
>>> handle!
>> 
>> does this mean, i have to send [gemwin] a  "frame 25" message to
>> reproduce the film correctly ? (gemwin's default setting is 20, 
>> as far
>> as i can remember)
> 
> ...if you're playing with auto on, the higher frame message you 
> set, the faster the movie plays...these two different ways are in 
> there for flexibility:  I usually use the counter method with a 
> frame message of 60, and it's smooth as silk :-)
> 
> l8r,
> james
> 
> 
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Patrick Pagano, B.S.,M.F.A Candidate
Research And Development Assistant
Digital Worlds Institute
University Of Florida
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