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Paul commented on manuel_mitasch's Feature Request, “Add processing time in tooltips for each node”
1 month 1 week ago

Just added my votes for this. Not necessarily for the method proposed but because I often find myself wondering what parts of a composition I should be exploring if I want to improve performance. I think the performance metrics should be something enabled/disabled so as to not in themselves cause an overhead.

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Paul voted on manuel_mitasch's Feature Request, “Add processing time in tooltips for each node”
1 month 1 week ago
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Paul posted a new Bug Report, “OBJ material images not saved when exporting as app”
1 month 2 weeks ago

OBJ material images not saved when exporting as app

Status: 

Vuo version: 

OS version: 

  • macOS 10.14

How severely does this bug affect you?: 

●●○○ — It's annoying but I can work around it.

Steps causing the bug to occur: 

  1. Create a composition that loads an OBJ file with a MTL file that references image textures.
  2. Export to an app
  3. The textures are not copied into the resources, only the OBJ and MTL it references.

Have you found a workaround?: 

Yes, one can copy the image textures into the built application resources directory.

Other notes: 

The OBJ file is obviously being parsed to find the MTL. The same needs to occur for the MTL file.

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Paul commented on Paul's Bug Report, “Movie format quality setting ignored.”
4 months 1 week ago

I chose some frames to encode using ffmpeg.

There are 2880 frames, if a movie is created at 30fps then the movie is 96 seconds long.

I encode using ffmpeg with something like

ffmpeg -r 30 -i frames/%04d.jpg -c:v libx264 -b:v 2M -maxrate 2M 2M.mp4

So, if the bitrate is X Mbps then the movie size should be (96*X/8)

If I choose 200Kbps then the movie should be at most 2.4MB. Confirmed. Granted it looks pretty bad.

If I choose 2Mbps then the movie should be at most 24MB (96*2/8). Confirmed.

If I choose 20Mbps then the movie should be at most 244MB (96*20/8). Confirmed.

If I choose 200Mbps then the movie should be at most 2.4GB (96*200/8). Confirmed.

Notes

1: Vuos formula of MAX(0.01, quality) * pixelsWide * pixelsWide * framerate * fudge is MBytes/sec not Mbits/sec! So out by a factor of 8. I also suggest dropping the fudge factor, set to 1.0 unless there's a good reason.

2: One can choose an extremely wide range of bitrates, no problem and the file size should exactly reflect that. 4 orders of magnitude above from 0.2Mbps to 200Mbps, movie sizes from 2.4MB to 2.4GB. File sizes match exactly proprotionately as expected.

3: The data rate of the frames uncompressed would be 1400Mbps (28801920108038/1024/1024/96) So 200Mbps has not saturated yet.

For tests in Vuo, one can try to recompress the 20M.mp4 or 200M.mp4 file into lower bit rates. For example using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -r 30 -i 200M.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 20M -maxrate 20M 20M_from_200M.mp4

And as expected the resulting movie is 244MB. Similarly for 2Mbps the movie is 24MB.

Hope this proves useful.

If you want to test with the movies I use please download from here

http://paulbourke.net/transient/VuoMovie/

Note they will only hang around there for a week or so.

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Paul commented on Paul's Bug Report, “Movie format quality setting ignored.”
4 months 1 week ago

I note in an earlier reply that you say "...…where fudge is 0.75, based on our testing with a variety of image generators, and framerate is 60 (regardless of the actual framerate, since Vuo doesn't know in advance what the actual framerate will be).".

I suggest that is a problem. For all/any movie output nodes one needs to dictate the framerate.

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