Audio Only File

Is it possible to just play an audio file that has no video track in Catalyst? If not, request to do so please :-)

Try using the "Play Audio" from Play Modes.

Hope this helps. :)

Yes But it must be encoded as a movie. You cannot play MP3 etc directly.
Put it onto a movie which is always black and use the Play Audio playmode.

S.

Yeah, that's what I figured. Inconvenient to have to attach a movie to each clip I want to play, ah well.

But Catalyst IS a video playback system, not a jukebox after all!

All syncing and playback is frame based - the heart of what we are doing.

With the software available these days, its not too much effort to export audio as a quicktime file

Yes but it also IS a show controller which is what I use it for to test systems. Not for the video playback capability. SAMSC is End of Line so I had to upgrade to this and having to make a video file for every sound file I do is a waste 'o time.

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Originally Posted by jabadger

Is it possible to just play an audio file that has no video track in Catalyst? If not, request to do so please :-)

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its tricky to fix directly - as the video playback engine is frame based -and audio files dont have frames

Understood. Thanks :-)

I use audio movies in Catalyst all the time. Render them as black frame AIC at 160x120. I have done this with 31 audio files and one HD video file with no frame loss.

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Originally Posted by SourceChild

I use audio movies in Catalyst all the time. Render them as black frame AIC at 160x120. I have done this with 31 audio files and one HD video file with no frame loss.

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Hi Todd,

So will no frame loss mean no audible delay because if we"ll use, the sound needs a cut in? It will be triggered from the lighting desk.

Thanks,

Peter

As an experiment, I made 30 black frame movies with an audio track each and initiated playback of all simultaneously. It worked like a multitrack playback. Didn't have hiccups