@thatmattrogers

Lots of useful and pertinent info in this thread:

https://community.troikatronix...

@carlveira

My example patch here also shows some ways to cycle through videos/pictures: https://troikatronix.com/add-ons/random-media-random-duration/

Hello all,

The new leapmotion 2 is arriving !

139 US

Cheers

@dako-ark

Short answer: This is a known issue. The workaround is to set your keyboard language to English (USA).

Long answer: In macOS Ventura, there is a new feature called "Keyboard Equivalent Localization" that automatically translates keyboard equivalents (i.e., shortcuts) if the specified key is difficult or impossible to get to on the current keyboard. What is terribly annoying is that 1) this feature is turned on by default, and 2) there is no way to disable this in the system preferences as far as we can tell. Only within the app itself can this be disabled, which will require a new version of Isadora. Since 3.2.6 was compiled with the latest SDK, this new "feature" enabled itself without us opting in. The workaround is to set your keyboard language to English (USA).

Best wishes,

Woland

@k_lab

Perhaps this might help? A different direction, but maybe useful.

https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000069104-playing-movies-with-multichannel-audio-on-macos

@simon100

As Woland mentioned, you can accomplish this in Javascript.
You likely want to build a 2D array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) such that the Array is made of short arrays that contain the Value & the Position.. So you might have [50.33,2] where 50.33 is the max volume, and 2 the position it is in.

So your array may look like this (if it has 5 positions) [[50.33,1],[20,2],[10,3],[15,4],[30,5]]

You could then use the Array Sort feature on this array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) to sort by the Volume level (first value in each sub-array).

This could give you this array: [[50.33,1],[30,5],[20,2],[15,4],[10,3]]

See how the value levels are now in descending order: 50.33, 30, 20, 15, 10

In this way, you can determine that the highest value came from output position 1, and the second highest volume came from output position 5

Hopefully that gets you started.

@skulpture, @dbini, @Woland, thank you so much! I will experiment with all of this.

With gratitude,
e.

@elena,

@RIL suggestion may be perfect and useful for you. You can also look at editing your script/captions in an external file and then reading in the file directly - that way any updates can be tracked as a line number.

Check out the add-on for reading a file into Isadora here: https://troikatronix.com/add-o...

Alternatively, the possibility of doing the same with the 'Data Array' actor is not overly complicated - see example patch attached:

read-a-line-patch.zip

Best Wishes

Russell

@jandraka

Hello, I understood my mistake : it was in the node name, I selected Christie instead of leaving it blank.

now it works.

Isadora is the best , One more time.

@hiroko_tanahashi

Here's how to do multichannel audio routing with the Sound Player: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000084953-tutorial-getting-started-with-multi-channel-audio-in-isadora

Currently, this functionality does not exist in the Movie Player actor (it is a planned addition for the future but right now we're busy with IzzyCast). That being said, it is possible on macOS to use Isadora's Move Player actor with multichannel video files that have been set up in a specific way: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000069104-playing-movies-with-multichannel-audio-on-macos

Best wishes,

Woland

@dako-ark

We'll need more information in order to help. Could you please provide the file you are using and a more detailed description of the issue or a screen recording of the issue?

An example of why we need more information: The term "patch" can refer to a single Scene or an entire Isadora file so I can't tell which of the three following things you've tried to do:

Paste an entire Isadora file into a User Actor/Macro somehow --> I don't even know how I'd even begin to go about attempting this in  a single cut-and-paste action if there were multiple Scenes.Select a Scene in the Scene List, cut it, then try to paste the Scene into a User Actor/Macro --> This wouldn't work either. You'd need to click in the Scene Editor for a Scene, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select everything, cut it, then go inside a User Actor/Macro and paste it.Click in the Scene Editor for a Scene, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select everything, cut it, then go inside a User Actor/Macro and paste it. --> This would work, but depending on what you're trying to paste, it may not immediately show on the Stage Output (for example, if you set the intensity of the Projector actor to initialize at 0, (so you could fade it up as a programmed cue), when you pasted the Projector into the User Actor/Macro the intensity would be '0', so you wouldn't see anything on the Stage until you performed the fade up.

Best wishes,

Woland

Hello @roberto2022,

you can sync two instances on different computers over OSC.

General OSC handling: Guru Session OSC

The simple version would just trigger once (maybe every scene).

Advanced would be a near frame sync. @Michel once offered a syncing user actor. It is made with Version 2. but you can use it as a how to. Instead of connecting the player directly, you would connect them over OSC.

If it is meant for hot backup running parallel, I usualy biuld a 'deadman switch'.
 A puls is send every other second, resetting counter at the remote computer. If the connection is lost, the counter won't be reset and trigger something to take over the session automaticaly.

Thanks !

I will try !

best

@ayushi

sure, but you're going to need some hardware if you want to generate it live. a depth camera such as Kinect or Orbec Astra or Realsense will give you a human shape that can then be processed with the QC ASCII Art actor (if you use Mac) or a GLSL Shader like this: https://www.shadertoy.com/view...to produce something similar to that effect.
The term Projection Mapping, however, tends to refer to something else, unless you are aiming to map the image onto a moving body - which presents an additional set of challenges.

@woland Thanks the help and for sharing this solution! 

Is really close for what I'm looking as solution besides the fact that I will need the Data Array actor or the Read Text From File actor because I have a considerable amount of text to be screen. Thank you so much for all directions!

@jfg thanks for this solution too, it is perfect for a more minimal work with words&sound, I must have some scene with your example too

@ril Thanks for the enthusiasm! I'm from Portugal, so I can speak that "portuñol" mix... 😉

@dako-ark

MIDI Show Control is for communication and integration between different hardware and software. It's a way for them to trigger each other's cues and things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Show_Control

@woland thanks for your reply!

I try to look out if there's an actor capable to process a video with an STmap...

@three5eric

Hi, 

I successfully tested birdog cameras with the visca alpha actor. And tomorrow morning I'll test this amazing guy !!

Datavideo PRT10 Mark II robotic pan tilt head with motors that can control zoom and focus. The amazing thing is that the movement is very smooth. Much better that the Nirdog (In the Birdog the movements seems to have les steps). Plus the Birdog cameras, (that I like a  lot by the way for certain uses) will never be as good in theatrical conditions in low lights. Datavideo heads allow me to use our Blackmagic Pocket 6k pro with Canon Series L f2.8 lenses that have a high dynamic range and are super il low lights. I'll report here the findings. Prior fast test didn't allow me to control it. I hope it will be better tomorrow.

Cheers 

@john-0

The easiest way to do this right now would be Python I believe, since there are definitely libraries out there for recognizing QR codes, and you can feed video into the Pythoner actor. Feel free to send in a support ticket using the link in my signature if you'd like to try out the beta version of the Pythoner actor.

@luis_mcdowell

See @jfg 's answer above: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/8402/answered-audio-and-movie-players-elapsed-or-remaining-time/8The zoom controls at the bottom right of the Scene Editor/Control Panel let you zoom the Scene Editor or Control Panel in or out, so you could zoom in to make it bigger. The keyboard shortcut is "Cmd and +" to zoom in on macOS and "Ctrl and +" to zoom in on Windows. The zoom options also exist at the bottom of the "View" menu.

You can also change the default font size of Actors and Controls to make all that text bigger if you go to Isadora > Preferences > General tab (the first one) > User Interface > Actor/Control Font Size