How lo lower my load easily? Urgent!

Eva

hello there

I have surprisingly managed to overload my mac studio...

I have 1 scene where I put my whole project of videos controlling when they apear with keyboard and korg nano controll to make a longer flow. But now I see its overloaded and I need to very soon be able to export my work into a video... so is there a quick fix for this? Especially I need to make sure I can make a smooth recording:)

Would if help to cut it in parts and put them in 3 scenes e.g. and merge them in a video program?

Is it simply having many video actors in there even if they are set to off? Or is it only the ones that are on that use space?

Im a bit confused and this came as a surprise just before export. I never managed to overload an M1 before:D

Im trying to understand the cause:)

Please help. Less time consuming work is very apreciated but knowledge for next time is also good:)

All the best

Eva

All the best and thanks :)

dbini

@eva

check that you are using the same resolution throughout your patch. hover your mouse over vid gpu patchlines to see a preview of the signal. check that everything matches, and if there's any differences, you can try using a Scaler straight after the Movie Player that's playing the wrong resolution.

DusX

@eva said:

I need to very soon be able to export my work into a video

One option that can help, is to use a 3rd party screen recorder (I sometimes use OBS studio) to capture and record a stage output. This allows Isadora to focus on rending the output, and provides a completely separate process (and very optimized) for recording. I have found this useful when I am pushing the LOAD on Isadora to the max.
Another trick I use is the add User Actor On/Off to all my user actors, and disable them when not in use, this can lower CPU processing a lot depending on your patches logic.

Woland

@eva

It's really not possible to give you a quick fix, useful suggestions, or diagnose the problem without actually seeing the patch.

Eva

Hello,

Thank you very much so far.
I so far cut the scene in 3, that helped then I need to merge them afterwards. @woland: I have added my patch I have put the first scene as the on that is over loaded, the next three are the ones cut into three and then edited further. Here is the file: the patch:)

Thank you for helping.

All the best
Eva

Eva

PS: About the video size, so some videos are higher resolution than HD some are in Full HD - the final product should at least be HD, so when I use videos or images that I zoom in I suppose they should be higher resolution in the input right??? How do I manage that then?

Thank you ;)

Woland

@eva

The file doesn't seem to have attached properly. Could you try again?

Eva

@eva

@woland ok, now I try again, with another one, its also really loaded it seems but I am actually surprised.
I have put the scene in Q1This is the file: Esther

All the best

Eva

Woland

@eva

My bet is that it has to do with the Video Delay actors you have after your two 4k videos that have the 'frames' inputs set to '21' and '30' respectively.

In the righthand side of this screenshot is some relevant info from the help text of the Video Delay actor's 'frames' input:

Try deleting the Video Delay actors and see if the LOAD drops.

Also what computer are you running this on?

Skulpture

I can see lots of mixed-resolution video in your media bin.

Some are 4k, and some are not. Some are 30fps, and some seem 25fps, so Isadoara will be working mega hard to process those Videos.

I would suggest making them all the same resolution (if possible) and converting them all to a more usable format such as HAP.

DusX

@woland said:

Video Delay actors

Video Delay eats up video memory, and at 4k it will be bad. This is an actor I am VERY careful with when using it because it always introduces load. Just watch your framerates. Reduce the video delay usage, until you have a good framerate, that will be the max you can use.