I noticed that if multiple VS instruments are used in a Drumrack all the videos must have the same size (width/height), or any video clip that does not have the same size as the clip in C1 doesn’t play back.
Is this correct?
I noticed that when I loaded multiple VS devices with clips with slightly different width and/or height would load and show in the VS device but would not play back.
After I made all the clips the same width and height it did work as expected.
Hi Wiim, welcome to the forum!
That is not correct; Video Simpler contains a “Scale Mode” parameter in the bottom left that specifically decides how a video is resized to fit within the resolution that is defined in the Settings window of Videosync.
If you could share a project with us that shows unexpected behavior like you are describing, this could help us figure out what may be going wrong, or if something can be considered a bug.
Thanks.
I’m trying to replicate it in a stripped out project, but can’t replicate what I experienced earlier.
So probably my bad.
Note: what happened was I put 6 to 7 slices of 1 to 3 seconds of footage from 5 different movies into individual VS’s in a drum rack. And then noticed that the slices played back from some movies but not from others. What was weird is that for some slices .ASD files where created and not for others. I then converted all the slices (with Handbrake) into uniform format, deleted the .ASD files and reloaded the project. No .ASD files where created.
One question; sometimes only milliseconds of a clip gets loaded. Is there a fixed rule that determines when the full clip is loaded and when only part?
No problem!
The reason you’re seeing .asd files for some videos but not for others, is because dragging a video into Video Simpler alone does not create an .asd file for it. This happens only when Live actually analyzes the clip, which happens when you drag it anywhere on an Audio track, or into Live’s own Simpler or (Drum) Sampler. Video Simpler doesn’t do anything with the audio of a clip, and so it doesn’t make an .asd file for it.
As is mentioned in the manual here, by default Video Simpler loads only the first 100 frames of a video to prevent immediate excessive consumption of RAM, making it a deliberate choice for the user to load additional frames into RAM.