I figured it out. It seems too easy.  I just created the mask as a .png - black where masked and transparent where I want content. Send it to a quad distort, set to transparent and put in layer ten, Then any content, as long as in layers -10 thru 9, is masked AND individually controllable via their quad distort without distorting the mask. The alpha actors are not even necessary. I don't see why this was so tough to figure out. Now i can adjust the mask separately from the content. It wouldn't work earlier because the projector actor and the quad distort won't work together in layers. The quad is always on top it seems. Why is that?

Duncan

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after a lot of thinking, i changeD all my medias with the same ratio like fifou says. too much trouble with switching the aspect on/off, because quad distord keep the last ratio for its settings. and i switch beetwen pictures and movie with somes gates and a multimix... thanks for your help

@jwilson, @CraigAlfredson is right. His solution will work.

Another way is to use use a Comparator actor. Send the MIDI value to the 'value 1' input, and set the 'value 2' input to 127. Ensure the mode is set to 'eq' -> "equal to." Then you'll get a trigger every time a 127 arrives.

Best Wishes, Mark

I know that is late but it may be helpful to try changing the axis in 3D application

It is fixed now even though I do not know what exactly I have done some of the chafes that I have done from you're last advice: Serial.begin(9600); Integer = digits (without 4) and eom charr 10. Thank you again Fred

Thanks guys.

K

Thanks Bodo!
Much appreciated.

I could solve my issues by creating control scenes they are active (always) no loss of values, turn scenes on off jump fade………………………………………………………………….. trigger,

rainbow

Dear Mark

I see  Thanks again ! Adolfo K

Hi @maxiwille @Fred @rainbow there's this great and powerfull app called Syphoner
http://syphoner.sigma6.ch/
It allows you to select the window you'll like to send to any syphon enabled program.
I use it to capture Animata window and send it to Izz.

I haven't tried it with skype yet but let me know if it works.
Thanx to @skulpture for this one.
Enjoy

...interesting products  -but no i need some features of isadora and already have the mac pro - only want to no if it is better to play a three-split screen via one graphic card or is it the same if i play via 2 graphic cards -regarding the sync of three outputs -but as it is one wide mov 3072x768 which is chopped in three parts -it should be in sync anyway - or i`am wrong???

I don't know how much interaction with twitters api you are planning. If you simply want access to your feed...
You might be able to use something like yahoo pipes to transfer the data to a rss feed, and pick it up in Isadora via the tcp-ip actors (like in my tutorial).
If you want to have full api access/control you will need code that can manage the Oauth login requirements (flash can, as well as, PHP, Python etc..)
On the forum another member is using node.js to connect to twitter, and is sharing the data via OSC, so that no TCP actors are needed.
Unfortunately it is the security requirements of twitter/facebook etc.. that make this currently to be a more difficult task.
If you are on a MAC, I would bet that there is a Quartz Composer patch that will connect to twitter that you could integrate.
Or similar could be done with Processing.

OSC might be easiest, so I would search for any tools that will output twitter data as OSC.

I hope thats a help? I know its many options...

The t4i is already a pain… I have to use canon2syphon and is not at all reliable… I'll try to find an old CCTV camera and get started with the testing… thanks a lot

And I didn't knew it was possible to use the wiimote… I have one laying around here… will give it a try

Dear @anthoypoa,

To choose the server, you click on the black box to the left of "server" on the Syphon to Video or Syphon to Image actors when the server is running. You should see a popup menu as shown in the picture. Use this menu to select the server you want. Do you not see this? Best Wishes, Mark

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@sculpture, i have the core video update, it shows as an actor..but i cant get it to work :

Hi Stefano,

For me the trick to compile under Xcode 5 was too make a new scheme: "Next to the stop Button press " IsadoraDemoPlugin " and click " New Scheme ... " and create a new scheme" With the old scheme with the Isadora Demo plugin it points to "My mac 64-bit" and by creating a new scheme it points to: "My Mac 32-bit" Attached you can find two screenshots. My advice would be to first try to compile the IsadoraDemoPlugin that comes with the SDK before you start working with the Face Detection. Once you get the IsadoraDemo plugin working in Isadora you at least have a grip on all the steps necessary.  Then you can start to play around with including the openCV libraries and testing if that works. I have not yet worked with the openCV library in Isadora but I know from OpenFrameworks that it can be a bit tricky to get it to work. I hope this helps you a step further

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Hey another version of the patch (more clear) 74c1a9-audio-videodelay.izz

Somebody pointed to this device, which apparently had been used to connect 5 kinects to a MBP: http://www.caldigit.com/thunderboltstation/

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Sure @Skulpture @fred I'll keep you posted of how it goes.
I'm a bit in the flou as we say in french.
I'll create a blog post of the process if it's successfull 🙂

Oh... you're right DusX. The only problem is if for any reason you click on the "Always active" scene and go back to another scene which doesn't have the Activate Scene actor, the "Always active" scene will be deactivated. But it's true, if you don't do that, you don't need an Activate Scene actor in every other scene.