Hey hivemind! Having a few performance issues with showbuddy.
For most of my shows I'm using SBA as a standalone (as we don't use track) but for our Bruno Mars tribute I'm using Showbuddy for track management and lighting control. Last night we also had a projector available so I had our VTs running as well.
The lights run fine on their own but as soon as I plug in the projector and set up the VTs everything gets glitchy and jerky.
I'm running the VTs at 800 x 600 resolution (storage). Running Showbuddy on a 2017, i7 15"macbook pro. Still using the DMXIS box, not artnet.
I've tried shutting down anything like dropbox or any other random shit I have open so showbuddy is all that's running. I also close the lighting design window so the viz isn't eating up graphics processor power.
Is there anything else I can do or is my £2000 laptop just not capable of running the software?
Performance issues advice please
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Re: Performance issues advice please
I developed SBA and Show Buddy on a lesser spec of MacBook, so it's definitely not your computer. FYI, in my testing, I routinely run SBA video at 800x600 with 25Hz refresh rate (configured from the SBA Preferences window) without any issue (whilst driving 2 universes of DMX fixtures and LED strips, and playing back audio from Show Buddy)
Perhaps you have encoded your videos at too high a resolution? For example, if your video clips are Full HD, then SBA needs to downscale those to 800x600 at playback time, which can be costly.
Perhaps you have encoded your videos at too high a resolution? For example, if your video clips are Full HD, then SBA needs to downscale those to 800x600 at playback time, which can be costly.
Dave Brown - db audioware
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Re: Performance issues advice please
Feel free to send me one of the problematic videos, and I'll check to see if the video format is right for SBA.
Dave Brown - db audioware
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Re: Performance issues advice please
That would be awesome cheers Dave. I had. Feeling it would be something I was doing wrong. I'll drop you a dropbox link to one of the videos when I get a chance, probably on Monday now.