Newbie question regarding Simpler

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Hi,

I’m new into Videosync and installed Videosync 2.

I was playing around with instruments and effects but the Simpler is not working for me.

I’m on a Windows 11 machine.

I did read: " For videos that are encoded with anything other than HAP, Simpler buffers all movie frames into the graphics card’s video RAM."

All I get when I load a video into Simpler is in the attachement.

And my PC blocks also after some time.

I’m I missing something in the manual?

Also, when I click on HAP on

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the above mentioned page I get to the first page of the handbook. Is it no ment to get some info on HAP?

Best regards,

Guido

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Hi Guido, welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

  • Are the videos you are using all encoded with HAP?
  • Do the same videos load and play as expected when placing them on an audio track?

And yes, that link seems to be broken, fixed now!

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I just tried to reproduce this, and I can when trying to import a HAP video into Simpler. Unfortunately HAP is the only codec Videosync does not support on Windows.

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Hi Jean-Paul,

The videos are in mp4. They work when placed on a audiotrack with the other Videosync instruments and effects.

So I can not play HAP video’s with Videosync on Windows?

I will look at the HAP-page.

Thanks for the replies and fixing the URL.

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I just used this to convert an mp4 to HAP:

But when inserting the HAP file into the Simpler I get the same message as yesterday: file not found, if it was moved drop the file here from it’s new location to restore settings.

So if I understand it well Simpler/Videosync says that the file cannot be found and has to be restored by dropping it from it’s new location.

So maybe and have to put the files in a directory Simpler/Videosync ‘understand’?

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Update:

I open Videosync than Ableton.

I drop a mp4 file in the arrangement view and no problem, another mp4 file and no problem, the videos appear in the Videosync window.

I drop the just made HAP file and the Videosync window closes as soon I play the HAP-file.

For me it’s no problem now that I can’t use Simpler, the effects work with an mp4 file but maybe somehow this can be fixed for other users?

I’m new to this but HAP on Windows is possible to maybe can work it out?

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HAP encoded videos are in no way supported by Videosync on Windows. So that information on the codecs page from our Handbook pertains exclusively to the macOS version of Videosync 1 and 2. We still need to update the manual for Videosync 2, so all the information there and in the Handbook is still just about Videosync 1 on macOS.

The error message in the screenshots you’ve shared is what I get as well when I drop a HAP encoded video in Simpler. Any video with another codec should work as expected though.

So apart from HAP, Videosync supports every other codec (like h264) that Live supports. In other words, if Live allows you to drop the video clip in Session View or Arrangement View, Videosync should be able to play it as well (with the only exception being HAP on Windows).

If you use any videos from User Library/Videosync/Video Samples, does the video load and play as expected?

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Yes, works perfectly in Simpler than.

So maybe convert my videos to .mov files?

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The file extension represents the container for the video, not the codec, so in this case it’s irrelevant. Converting to a codec like H264 is probably what you want to do :slight_smile: . You can use something like Handbreak for this.

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It was. :slight_smile:

I’m gonna buy it next week before the 20% discount ends.

So nice to have a dev that responds almost immediately and is also really helpfull and patient and explains things really good.

Also, it is so fine to be finaly able to do video-editing within Ableton and to be able to automate it and to tinker with macro’s and other stuff.

Have a nice weekend Jean-Paul!

PS: I will also read the manual and performance tips before asking more questions. :slight_smile:

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