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issue with using half speed


Philip

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I'm trying to clean up a sequence that has a very quick beat, so I'm using the half speed to tighten things up. What I notice though is that after playing the sequence at half speed several times in a row, it will start to play at 1/4 speed instead. It does this automatically without me changing any settings. The only way to kick start it is to put it back to mornal speed, then to 1/2 speed again, but it will slow down again several runs later.

I'm on windows vista and it does this on the pc and laptop with versions 2.8.10 and v 2.9.4

this entire issue is exasperated when you are zoomed way in

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Don't know for sure, but here's a few things to think about:

I have on occasion encountered a file thatwhen run from the start, would stay syncronized just fine. But if I played it "from selection", it would start to get unsynchronized.

- Make sure if you are using an MP3 that it is saved with a bit rate of 128k. If not, try loading it into Audacity and resaving at 128k.

- Sometimes I have better luck sequencing with WAV files. You can use Audacity to save them this way, too.

Hope this is of some help to you.

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I have had athe same problem Phillip when I was working on my animated face at 1/2 speed. And all my songs are 128 constant rate.

Dave

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Just for _hits and giggles, try converting to a .WAV and see if that helps. It has helped me in the past. I just don't know, but some songs seem to sequence better for me (from the standpoint of staying synchronized) as WAVs than as MP3s.

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ok ...

Simple question ... will the LOR software run the song in a WAV file when the show is on ... have never tried.

Dave

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you can use .wav files for sequences and the show, but the flies are much bigger which isn't an issue unless you are using a mini director

The sortware has always done the out of sync thing when doing selected areas but can be rememdied by zooming out and backing the area up a little bit

as for the 1/2 speed thing, it does it with mp3 and wav files

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