Hi there,
I spent the whole day trying to render and export a movie from the beginning to the end but I kept running into issues with the 600-frame bandwidth. Although I can adjust the frames, I’m not sure how many frames my movie file has in the first place - I don’t want to loop it, just play and render it “once”. Is there an easier way to render the movie from start to finish? I would really appreciate some help, and I apologise for the basic question. I have not been able to find a simple answer to this problem online.
to find out the exact length in frames of your movie, attach a Info CHOP to the MovieFileIn TOP and have a look at the length channel as well as the sample rate channel.
If the sample rate of the movie differs from the sample rate of your project, you have to do some conversion ((length/sample_rate)*fps where fps is the framerate of your TouchDesigner - usually 60)
You can now set the End and REnd of the timeline to that number. As a next step I would recommend setting the Play Mode parameter of the MovieFileIn TOP to “Locked to Timeline”. This will let you scrub through the movie and verify that everything is setup correctly.