I'm interested to know the best approach for using PNG sequences in multiple scenes. Let's say I have 3 different (title) scenes that all have a similar continuous animation (for argument's sake, a background animation). I.e the background image sequence loops

Approach 1:
Add the animation to each title as a PNG sequence and set to continuously animate. Add the titles as individual inputs. Total 3 inputs

Approach 2:
Add the animation as it's own Input in vmix and then create 3x virtual inputs from it, with the different titles added using Multi View. Total 7 inputs

I'd like to do things the most performance efficient way. The reason I ask is I note that when adding a GT title with a continuous PNG animation, (a) the input takes a long time to add, and (b) I sometimes get animation stuttering for the PNG sequence in the title. I traditionally have used Approach 2 but I'm looking for performance improvements and efficiency. I shouldn't have to use 7 inputs when maybe 3 will do!

Thanks for the reply. I'm curious if what I'm experiencing is expected then. My vMix preset has a total of 18 inputs:

- 8 GT titles (4 with PNG sequences)
- 2 vMix Calls
- 2 stingers (PNG sequences)
- 6 others (static graphics/colour input/an opener movie/an unused looping background movie etc)

vMix is using 18GB of RAM: https://www.dropbox.com/...dn11x/vmix-18gb.PNG?dl=0

My graphics card has 8gb of memory, GPU-Z reports 6.7GB in use, although vMix reports GPU mem at 24%.

My question wasn't about the mismatch between one percentage or the other. My question was whether the massive consumption of memory should be expected. I'm concerned that I may be doing things grossly inefficiently.