Wirecast 4.3 is out

[robistech]

robistech, I'm getting can't find page with your link.

Do you have either Preview or Camera Preview open? Those are the only things that I know of in previous versions of Wirecast that might have some impact on the interface.

Sorry Craig, don't know what happened wo Dropbox. Here's the link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...20Wirecast.txt

Yes Cam preview is on.

[cseeman]

Seems the forum is doing something to the link. Dropbox still reports 404 can't find requested link.

Camera Preview might be the cause. Try turning that off and see how it performs.
If it's the issue it's something I should let the Telestream support folks know about.
There's a frame rate control in Camera Preview as well. Another thing to try is dropping its frame rate to the lowest level of 1fps and see if that has an impact.

[robistech]

Seems the forum is doing something to the link. Dropbox still reports 404 can't find requested link.

Camera Preview might be the cause. Try turning that off and see how it performs.
If it's the issue it's something I should let the Telestream support folks know about.
There's a frame rate control in Camera Preview as well. Another thing to try is dropping its frame rate to the lowest level of 1fps and see if that has an impact.

Sorry, Camera preview is off, I just have the regular PREVIEW window open in the main switcher. Sorry for the confusion, first thing I tried was turning cam preview off, and it is still off.

I'll give it one more shot with a bit.ly

http://bit.ly/ZrKNsf

Thanks!

[cseeman]

That worked. Not obvious to me what would be the cause though from looking at it.
Given you're experiencing this with versions previous to 4.3 it would likely be something specific to your system (or few systems) since is not something that's been reported. I've seen Camera Preview and Preview result in performance hits but only on very underpowered machines (think old Core2Duo).

[robistech]

Strange. Also created multiple new User accounts, reinstalled software, and all to the same problem. Preview off "seems" to help, but CPU is not the issue in this case.

[cseeman]

It would seem that it's system related.
I assume this is only impacting the interface and not the stream. That might indicate some background task but it's hard to figure out what.

Some things to look at are RAM, available vs use of VRAM. Sometimes other applications don't let go of RAM or lots of VRAM is used when the drive is low on space resulting in slow access. One can see this to some extent looking at RAM use at the bottom of Activity Monitor where the total system stats are displayed.

[robistech]

It would seem that it's system related.
I assume this is only impacting the interface and not the stream. That might indicate some background task but it's hard to figure out what.

Some things to look at are RAM, available vs use of VRAM. Sometimes other applications don't let go of RAM or lots of VRAM is used when the drive is low on space resulting in slow access. One can see this to some extent looking at RAM use at the bottom of Activity Monitor where the total system stats are displayed.

Correct, Stream is not impacted, not dropping frames, just the interface.

Just upgraded the Macbook to 8GB of RAM, Activity Monitor says 4GB used / 4 Free

Only other apps opened are TTFN Midi and MidiPipe for Korg Nano Controller. Nothing else running in the background.