@maxime

Good to hear the bug went away, however; Its still possible that your HapA files and the movie player are using different alpha types (the movie player doesnt know what format the video is using). 
Changing the 'alpha mode' input of the movie player may help in the future. Also, in some cases you may need to convert the type (especially if its alpha straight, since many effects require pre-multiplication), so the FFGLpremultiply and FFGLunpremult actors can be very useful.
generally you will see a 'halo' artifact around elements.. where the image fade to the background.
This indicates some alpha mode formats are not optimal and should be adjusted.

@michelThanks - I got to that page, but didn't notice the blue circle - the three white icons in the middle distracted me 

@woland

I have a set of these.  I really like them - have used them on 2-3 projects and use them when teaching my students every semester.

I only have two issues with them - first, the knobs are a bit loose and I tend to over spin them. I literally have some from the first batch they sold commercially and have been told that the newer knobs are not so loosy-goosy. Second, there seems to be a limit of around 3-4 simultaneous adjustments that can be made before one of the inputs is dropped/missed. Which is to say - if you move 4 sliders at the same time as pushing a button or two one of those signals will not get through. This is really my biggest complaint about the system. I have learned to work and design around these issues and while annoying doesn't really keep me from using them regularly. 

@fred aha!  I think enabling lan connections did the trick.  I can't believe I've been dealing with the lag this whole time, and it was something so simple!  I also don't know why that option wouldn't be enabled by default...

@woland, I think I've mentioned this before, but I often encounter a bug when using Mac's VNC.  It's like the client computer doesn't properly recognize the arrangement of the host computer's displays, and when I try to click on anything to edit, the cursor is actually on another screen.  https://discussions.apple.com/...

Has anyone seen this: 
https://www.intelrealsense.com/tracking-camera-t265/

??

Cheers,

Hugh

@camilozk said:

got it! found it!

There are some settings that changed in the camera itself. Apparently when attempting to use HDV it tries to work through "legria hv40" drivers, and this crashes isadora. I changed it back to DV and I can see it again as "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR", and this works in isadora

🙂

 I am very pleased to hear this! 

Great, thank you all!

It is so helpful. I will research a bit more and then will decide.

All my best,

Shigezo

Hello! @Fred is there any new version of FRED_KinectV2_Syphon or a way to turn off the image output on the app?

Wondering if we can kill the image so that the RAM does not slows down by having that image processing on the background.

Any ideas?  Thanks! best

Re: [KinectV2 OSX](/topic/2125/kinectv2-osx)

Got my eye on this for sure!

Hi @dbini

I wasn't able to respond earlier but thanks so much for this. The projector has an offset of 115%. So I figure when placed perpendicular to a surface 3m away (blue lines in drawing) the projector offset produces a projection angle of 9.6°. If I then incline the projector 24° (red lines) I'd in reality be obtaining a projection angle of 33.6°(9.6+24).

I like to buy equipment (when I can afford it) because the less I have to rely on equipment that I haven't used before (i.e. that I don't own), the more peace of mind I have. Example: If I build a show that uses a MIDI-USB interface, I'll buy one so that I have it for the tour and for future projects. Plus it lets me experiment on my own with test-builds, rent it out to other designer friends when I'm not using it, and often times having certain bits of tech in my "just-in case" kit has saved the day for more casual/low-stakes projects, pieces, installations, and VJ setups (both mine and others) where everything hasn't necessarily been thought out meticulously ahead of time because ideas are still evolving in an organic way on site. It also has helped me in cases where there's been dud rental equipment or other equipment failure and new equipment is needed too last-minute for rental (or even purchase) to be an option. (Also I'm secretly a dragon but my hoard is equipment, not gold.)

@woland You could also look at the Blackmagic cleanswitch, it is a bit of a tricky beast as it will work better with reference (or reference SDI input 1). This would give you a clean switching matrix that could be more useful than a simple mixer. I am pretty sure it also uses UDP, if Izzy gets UDP (it's been knocking around on feature requests for a while) then you could control it within Izzy.

One way is to use the Orbbec SDK to send the skeleton data to OpenFrameworks and from there you can send it to Isadora or whatever you're working with. Another option is to use the Asus Xtion Pro Live which is supported by NI-mate but is unfortunately twice the price of the Orbbec. A new big thing on the rise is the OpenPose library.

As far as I know these are the only options currently. Please, write a follow up when something pops up!

Thanks @Juriaan

@jhoepffner @fred

@bonemap
Jacques, Fred and Bonemap, I have finally determined a workaround for being unable to save the large Isadora patch while editing. It is not related to having media on two different disks, as I thought, it happens when a background video is playing while I attempt a save or during an auto-save. This was an intermittent problem accompanied with one of  two error messages(see attached). If I turn off the movie player and projector associated with the background video, I can save the patch. This is very strange because I have been saving a patch while a video plays to stage since I began using Isadora 12 years ago. This problem occurred on a 2017 Mac Book Pro, 2013 Mac Pro, and 3 different PCs.

Don

@woland

We bought an MD-HX last year and the quality is really good. The hardware seems to have a much higher quality than the Blackmagic converters. And one device can convert HDMI—SDI and SDI-HDMI. You don‘t have to think about which device goes on which end. 

Best Michel

Is there anyone in Sydney Australia that has a kinectV2 with the adapter and gear to plug into a PC? I want to use it for a few hours for testing (I have one but want to test with more than 1 ;)), I can also sit in your studio if you don't want to let it out of your site. Just need to run some frame rate tests.

@woland Mojave is installed by now 🙂

@tasglyk

Hi! Though I'm probably a lot less experienced than many in here I recently did something like what you're asking for with the USB 3 intensity shuttle.

I used a Garmin Virb (essentially a GoPro equivalent) hung directly over the centre of the stage as a live feed. I bought a fairly standard 30m HDMI amplified lead with the ability to be powered (though I didn't use that option). I then projected the live feed on the cyclorama at the back of the stage. There was no appreciable lag and the effect was great. 

The only issues I had was at startup, occasionally the Blackmagic drivers seemed to get confused and could find the device. A repair/reinstall of the black magic software fixed it along with turning the camera on and off again. I think that this was more my inexperience with the devices.

I would just say two things, make sure you can access the camera setup remotely via Bluetooth/wifi or similar and test like crazy before you mount it up high.

@primaldivine

Mk4 is a very good solution because you have ADAT, so the possibility to ad 8 more channels easily.

Concerning Midi/Osc its not the same problem/solution.

With Midi IN/Out you can communicate with another musical devices, instruments, keyboard etc. but most of them are now directly pluggable in Usb, as nanoKontrol

Osc is more about the ability to change setting inside the audio-card from software or devices (touchOSC on iOs for example). RME have clear commands, easy to use. With Motu you can use proprietary modules, some in touchOsc to access some settings but its very difficult, perhaps impossible, to use OSC to change settings from Isadora.

You have to know that. RME Fireface UC is 875€, Motu ultraLite mK4 is 687€, for me with the difference in preamp and converter quality, the routing, the DSP and the OSC, if I have to choose now, its RME.