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Hey gang,

I was asked by a friend recently to come up with an orchestral score for a short film he's making. My DAW is FL Studio 12. I wanted to write a more contextual score as it's a short film (~4 minutes) and has a linear progression in tension. In order to accomplish this, I wanted to use FL's Fruity Video Player.

Here comes my problem: I've come to realize that the Fruity Video Player is bad. Really bad. It does not play audio for me, it does not sync with the score, and I can't get the framerate of the video to speed up any.

I have a temporary workaround for this (by writing down the specific times for hits and writing around that) but I need a more permanent solution. Anyone who is more experienced writing scores, any ideas would be awesome.

Thanks.

r
How is the video currently encoded? Maybe the video player just doesn't like the format/encoding.
The file was mp4. I asked the producer to send me another copy, and it happened to be lower quality. This one worked perfectly. I'm making progress on the score right now. I wonder if the file size and resulting quality had anything to do with the problems I was having.

A good rule of thumb might be to only use mp4 files below ~100 MB for smaller laptops.

R