How to properly use many videos on same slide on computer with hardware limitation.

One of Explaindio facebook group member Colin, who added many videos on the same slide, experienced the video playing much faster than it suppose too because of HDD / processor speed limitation of his computer.

General reason is that producing video with many input video streams (and animations) is very taxing on hardware.

If you have several videos on the very same slide all those must stream at the same time AND the output video must write at the same time too – all to the same HDD.

Solution:

Most video purchased / download form stock videos website has 1920×1080 Full HD resolution so if you add those 3 videos as it to the slide you computer is like computer will play 3 Full HD quality movies on 3 big TV whole at the same time playing animation and actually creating and writing the output video to same HDD. Only high end desktop computer with very fast HDD (best SDD drive) can handle such level of load.

The thing is that is it is not needed overkill. The is no need to use Full HD 1920×1080 video meant for big TV. If you have many videos on the screen all those video are small and take only small part of the display.

Therefore the solution is to convert that Full HD videos to actually resolutions they take up on the screen.

Because there is current no video converter software I know of which allows you to convert to any Height and Width the next be is to convert video 1080p Full HD video to 480p SD video before adding to Exlaindio Video Slide. I should lower your video file sizes about 8 times.

That way with 3 videos on screen you have 3×8=24 times less data to read from HDD 🙂

BTW We are working now on Explaindio Video Converter which will allow you to convert video to any Height and Width. So after done you will not be limited to just SD like with other converters but you will be able to have exact X,Y dimension of video like your video area.

If you have 2 HDD you can make it even more easy on your system load by exporting video to different HDD than the HDD you have source videos on.

Above described solution helped Colin. Colin went from having problem with created video playing 4 x faster than normal to correct speed.

I will continue to post new tips from time to time.

Have Fun

Andrew Darius