Hi Patrick,
On 05-11-06, at 08:17, patrick wrote:
chris clepper wrote:
On 11/5/05, patrick puredata@11h11.com wrote:
hi,
i was wondering about mac os X ? what is the best codec for mixing (blending, seeking) videos? quicktime for sure, but what codec and size: 720x480 DV or 640x480 with a codec like mpeg4, photojpeg? it's a g4 laptop, with 512 ram.... 50 videos, 2 seconds each.
I get at least 3 NTSC DV clips playing 30 fps at once on a 1 Ghz G4 laptop using the internal drive. A fourth might be possible using a Firewire drive. I hope you aren't trying to play all 50 at once though.
Photo-JPEG is less efficient but has the advantage of working at any resolution (it also has a lower data rate at the same size as DV). Motion-JPEG is the same as Photo-JPEG, but uses two interlaced fields per frame.
I highly recommend avoiding anything with MPEG in the name if performance and image resolution are required.
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hi chris, no no. i'm not trying to play 50 clips at the same time. but, i would like to be able to load a clip without visual glitch or freeze. is this possible?
also, i'm wondering about the correct size of a clip if i know the projection will be @ 800x600. should i crop my dv (720x480) to 640x480 to keep the ratio size. if yes, i will be forced to use a codec like photo jpeg right?
No you should not crop your DV. DV are 720x480 because they have non-square pixels. Their size ratio is still 4:3. DV is the best choice but you can only get full resolution (720x480). If you need other resolutions, use mjpeg or photo-jpeg. And it's quicker to load one big file that contain all your 50 files and just seek in it, if your setup permit this. Unfortunately it's not easy in PD-Gem to seek in quictime file and have a smooth playback because to have a smooth playback you need to use "auto" and when you use "auto" the seeking function doesn't work very well, at least in the version I was using (Gem 0.9 I think).
Good luck
Etienne
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