The new media Framework is UP and RUNNING!
having a huge demo with a lot of videos in October, i am happy to state here that the media framework in 4.13 is running solid and stable. I want to adress my thanks and my respect to the development team, especially gmpreussner who was the poor guy dealing with the media foudation ( a neverending source of disappointment and failure ) and ****, who was the target of a lot of complaints.
I had to make some changes because the handling of media is different now but it was worth it:
- “can play” no longer exists, but is not needed because you can ( and have to ) check, if the media is loaded.
- for local sources “load URL” should be replaced by “load source”
- the new media source items in content makes it more easy and more clear to integrate media
Instead of URL strings i now use arrays of references to the media to load my videos. I use “handbrake” for mp4 encoding and it works smooth. I already tried 4k footage at 60fps(!) and it worked smooth. I mapped 360 degree videos to the inside of a sphere and it also worked, and finally and most important: AUDIO WORKS ALSO IN THE FINAL BUILD!
One thing i realized with media framework 2.0: it is more unforgiving to “bad” (24, 25, 50 fps) frame rates than before, so i transfer all these files in premiere to 30fps, which works fine…
My congratulations to the developers, i will try to honor this with some commerial projects i am pitching right now ( money makes the world go around ).
Thank You for the hard work on the engine,
Girnth,
DOP and senior editor / programmer
