this is an extremely tricky area - even more so with audio

try un-modified 23.98 file - dont do any frame rate conversions

use playaudio - then use a higher playback frame rate in catalyst frame rate menu- if the monitor is 60Hz - try to use 60Hz playback in catalyst - but only some graphics cards will work at all well at this rate

catalyst uses movie frame rate only in play audio modes - but audio takes total priority

Quote Originally Posted by ryanww View Post
I have a project coming up where I will have a advertisement video (with audio) that will be playing and switching back and forth with a logo file. Reason I want to use catalyst is so I can control it with the light board and everything is kept very simple. This will be in HD as well.

I haven't gotten their content yet, so I have just been downloading HD movies I can find online. I am struggling to figure out the correlation on how Catalyst does the frame playback compared to just quicktime.

For example. This one particular file is encoded at 23.98 FPS. If I play it back with the cat set to 30FPS, it is a little bit glitchy. If I select 23.98, it is very jumpy. Although I would think it would be perfect. If I set it to 50FPS or higher, it is perfectly smooth. I have even tried taking the movie file, converted the timing to be 30fps non drop using final cut pro and with cat set to 30FPS it was slow.

I am just having a hard time understanding how the frame rate comes into play with playing back these media files that aren't just generic patterns and videos.

Thanks,
Ryan