Checklist for Smooth Video Playback
General
Creating smooth video playback is a challenging task, where many factors interact. Video is a data flao and every component must be able to match the current stream and do its task.
Content
The footage itself is important, too. For obvious reasons you cannot smoothly playback a jerky video file. With 'objects' we mean objects in the video stream
Good:
- Constant object motion
- Slow object motion
- Objects with soft edges
- Motion blur
- Downscaling the footage
Bad
- Jerky object movement
- Fast object movement with hard edges and no motion blur
- Upscaling the footage
MXWendler Mediaserver
The settings are project-specific, so there is not general 'good' or 'bad'. But these settings and media facts have an influence on the video framerate
Check:
- Is an output window open?
- Is the vertical sync active?
- Does the output window have the correct size
- Does the framerate match the footage framerate?
- Does the framerate match the footage framerate during playback? Check the framerate by moving the mouse to the left of the UI window, the current framerate will be visible in the bottom left of the window
Tip:
- Lower the rendering size (Settings->Output Window->Rendering Size)