multiple bpatchers making videomixer unstable?
Hello,
I'm trying to make a modular video-mixing interface, and want to use bpatchers to keep things tidy, but it seems like the bpatchers are causing problems: bangs, the video signal and messages aren't getting through.
Though i've gotten this rig to work intermittently, but as soon as I change "embed in parent patch" preference of the bpatcher the Inspector, I lose the video patch-cord and/or the whole subpatch.
If I re-connect the subpatch, close, then re-open the patch, it often starts working again, but then if I really start messing with the interface (changing looppoints on the rslider, turning interpolation on and off) the video image will freeze, and the whole thing needs to get restarted again.
Am I missing something?
BTW, I am using this patch to play back video with sizes between 8 - 200 MB, some with alpha channel (animation codec), 512 x 288.
Hi Karaokaze,
Thanks for pointing out my rslider typo! I've connected the rsliders as I should've, their min/max now adapts to the size of whichever quicktime is loaded.
Still isn't working! Well, it sorta is: I hear the audio, of the videos, am able to use rslider to change the sample size, but no image!
As to the h.264 recommendation, I am using it for some of my videos, but for the ones that have alpha channels, I must use animation (or ProRes4444 or TIFF sequence). h.264 doesn't carry alpha. I've downsized the animation codec videos so much (512x288, 12fps) that most of them fall between 8-200MB.
I'm on an iMac 10.6 with 4G of RAM, and without the bpatchers, mixing + messing around with these videos plays back fine. hmm..
Ah-ha! I figured out it was the pak scale object! It wasn't receiving the loadbang 1. in it's X and Y inlets!
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