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thomasrotten
10-01-2008, 06:33 PM
Es there a way around the limit on 65536 frames when playing a movie in catalyst
SourceChild
10-01-2008, 07:25 PM
WOW! You actually run content longer that 36 minutes?
thomasrotten
11-01-2008, 08:15 AM
Yes i have a show where the background movie is running during the whole show.
samsc
11-01-2008, 09:56 PM
no. not really.
samsc
11-01-2008, 09:57 PM
you could try play audio modes - they might work.
Marty Postma
12-01-2008, 02:54 PM
Es there a way around the limit on 65536 frames when playing a movie in catalyst

I only ever ran into this once, and here's what I did:

I cut the content up into about 30 min segments with about 2 seconds of overlap (ie- the last two seconds of the current clip are exactly the same as the first two seconds of the next one), and then I did a crossfade between layers with split timing (to reduce an intensity dip), with the incoming layer being triggered to play once forward with intensity.

Then once the first layer was out I then MARK-ed it to play the next clip.....etc....etc...etc.

This kept all the movie clips contained to two layers to leave resources open for other things.

Getting the timing right was a little tricky, but not all that hard really. Just a few tweaks here and there.

It all worked very well in the end.
thomasrotten
13-01-2008, 08:37 AM
It worked with the audio mode... Thanks Richard... You saved my day (once again).
Marty Postma
13-01-2008, 03:12 PM
It worked with the audio mode... Thanks Richard... You saved my day (once again).

Good to know for future reference!