Music video sync and triggering video events
Hi there, so tried searching and using AI for this (which gave me some insight and also threw me into some long dead ends), so thought I might just ask here.
I'm creating some music videos with Max Jitter, so some very long audio and video files and along the way I'm wanting to trigger smaller videos to start and stop on select beats. There are quite a few smaller videos that play simultaneously so all my vids are in hap. The videos are all trimmed on beat to a certain tempo.
So I have sfplay~ as my master sync source right now and video is sync'd to the position messages output of that. To trigger videos I'd like to be able to select a bar/beat start. Currently found a way using the same position messages out of sfplay~ into snapshot (set to 50ms)... then into translate to get the bar/beats. This has added a good chunk of CPU % though... which I'm trying to keep down. Anyone have other sync methods that might work here that are more efficient?
sounds like you're on the right path. you're saying sfplay~ into translate is causing a significant cpu increase? I would first make sure that's really the culprit. are you simply syncing start points or are you trying to sync jit.movie frames to the output of sfplay~?
hard to offer much without seeing a bit of how you're syncing. perhaps you can isolate a small test case of what you're doing that isn't performing as well and post here.