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keyframe question
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keyframe question

REDSELECTER 3:22 PM - 10 January, 2012
getting into video for 2012 - i have a reasonable library already of music videos and other video clips that I am going to transcode into h264/mp4 for use in both Video-SL or ME and something like VDMX or Modul8

For the latter two, there are a fair amount of suggestions to encode using keyframes every frame as opposed to every 10-20 frames - any issues with doing this in Video-SL?
phatbob 5:12 PM - 10 January, 2012
VJ programs prefer different codecs like MJPEG which do have keyframes every frame (they're basically an image sequence).

H.264 with keyframes every frame is quite demanding on your CPU, and so many keyframes aren't needed because the GPU does more of the work.

Personally, I have two libraries of video loops, I prefer to give each program what it prefers.

My VSL loops are longer, my VJ loops tend to be much shorter, anyway.
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REDSELECTER 5:27 PM - 10 January, 2012
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VJ programs prefer different codecs like MJPEG which do have keyframes every frame (they're basically an image sequence).

H.264 with keyframes every frame is quite demanding on your CPU, and so many keyframes aren't needed because the GPU does more of the work.

Personally, I have two libraries of video loops, I prefer to give each program what it prefers.

My VSL loops are longer, my VJ loops tend to be much shorter, anyway.
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ok makes sense - i suppose i will set up Compressor to output both formats and see how it goes