Hi have anyone managed to send audio from isadora to multi outputs on multi devices using Dante via ?

@fred Sure, for the encoders, but not for the faders. Motors compensate what you describe for infinite rotary faders I love that. The only problem with the Xtouch is that you have to reconfigure it completely before using it with Isadora. Faders spit out data on 2 different controller numbers as they are both on/off buttons on one channel and sliders on another channel. And this confuses the control watcher and even the different MIDI LEARN that exist out there as Isadora user actors. And there is more : the software that Behringer created to reconfigure all the controllers buttons faders and encoders on the Xtouch is pc only. I had to buy Parallel desktop too. The good news is that the Berringer software works well even if you don't buy windows inside Parallel Desktop. Anyone can use it with the non-customizable windows version that comes with Parallel.

@woland

new screenshot attached. Will check your recomendation, thanks!

@fred said:

@skulpture Here are some shadertoy examples of optical flow:

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https://www.shadertoy.com/view...

The" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://www.shadertoy.com/view... issue with this is that the computation of what is moving where and when is in a shader, this means if you want to do anything with that data, you need to do it in a shader. Getting data out of shaders is not always easy, and is best done with compute shaders, and this means windows only. The Nvidia SDK will do the computation on the GPU and pass data back to the CPU so it can be used for other calculations.

 That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

@woland

Ah, yes, thanks, I thought that an idea could be to use my midi controller to controll the fades of as much video as possible, and then make some videos in the end and beginning for fades to new scenes that are not 3d...  Or..... Maybe an option could be to record the 3d live image so that it is a 2D video of a 3D surface - then it should be possible to make the transition?:)
Ill try that.
Thanks for the help:)Eva

@ian thanks! Just uploaded to the add ons sections

@vidasonik no problem. my knowledge has tight limits, however..:-)

you should be able to use the Ableton Connection kit for OSC devices to talk to the onboard ones in Izzy. 

But even better for what you are trying (if i understand it...) is the free 'LiveGrabber' OSC Ableton tools from Showsync. The 'Analysis Grabber' can 'grab' audio frequency data which you can send via OSC to Izzy.

I haven't tried it, but it should work. https://www.showsync.com/tools...

@woland Hello, thanks again Lucas. And thanks to everybody contributing to this interesting thread. As @ril says limitaition is wifi saturation. Do we wknow how much bandwidth NDI is using to have 3 1080p cameras on a dedicated wifi network ? As far as I know we can have at least 3 because, according to obsbot tail tech pages

Quoting :Does NDI work over WiFi?

High Bandwidth NDI will work over a wireless network but at a reduced frame rate depending on the bandwidth available. As a general rule of thumb 100Mbit is recommended per 1080p video feed. The actual bandwidth used may be much less than 100Mbit (even below 20Mbit) depending on the complexity and size of the video being sent.

Otherwise if only a WiFi network is available, using NDI|HX sources is recommended. Such as most NDI Cameras and NDI|HX encoders/decoders.

@video-architect said:

to a Mac Studio. Has anyone had any experience with these machines? 

@chimerik and @fubbi have both told me that they're happy with their Mac Studios

I'd also welcome an overhaul of Isadora's 3d capabilities, support for more filetypes being a necessary first step. Perhaps we could start a thread in feature requests to show the team what we'd like to see, and that there are users wanting better features for the 3d workflow. Personally, I would love a more intuitive camera system.

@dbini 

Oh! You are absolutely right...I don't know why I didn't see it.
I'm going to explore it and maybe come back with new questions. Thank you very much for opening my eyes!
Best,
Maxi

@riodio You also normally have to use Z translate to move the object backwards, so its comes into view. I normally start at -50

@jandraka

thank u so much for this hint. now it works like charm.  just in time! Although i had to redo the whole patch.  

@fred and @DusX 

Thanks for the heads up. I did get the integrated GPU working alongside the dedicated GPU just as a test. Next step will be to get all four projectors hooked up and build some test cues to see what happens...

I also want to check the Star-Tech extender to see if it works as an option... 

@jfg said:

other (negative) consequences

 The Ungrouped layer method allows you to 'interlace' image layers during scene transitions. This can create some very interesting effects, since Projector layer settings are used.
However, this method is not default since by default it mixes scenes in an additive manner, where the newer Grouped by Scene option flattens each scene individually and mixes them with a more 'cinematic' crossfade not possible with the Ungrouped option.

@woland

They just confirmed to me that they were using the preview.
Already solved !!
Thank you Lucas for everything, as always (you were right)
Best,
Maxi

@bonemap Yes, pros call it the swiss army knife of video conversion/scaling

@woland said:

I also hope I'll be able to find the time to finish the file soon...

@Bonami I just finished the file in my After Hours Isadora Lab. Here's the file: redundancy-heartbeat-switch-2024-02-29-3.2.6.izz

The file and the link to a recording of me building this addition to the file will be posted in the Isadora channel of the Office Hours Discord soon.

This updated file includes an example Content Scene:

One of the things this Scene does is explain how to keep your Scene List in Synch across the two files (it's the section at the top right labeled "#Keeping the Active Scene in Synch Across Two Files").

Here's the guts of the Macro from "Method 1 - Next/Prev Scene" (I'd recommend the second method instead though):

Here's the guts of the Macro from "Method 2 -  Scene Synch" (I'd recommend using this method):

It's possible I made a logic mistake somewhere, as I haven't tested extensively with two computers, but feel free to let me know if you encounter problems and I'd be happy to fix the file.

Best wishes,

Woland

@jtsteph

I'm very interested to know what this looks like in practice.

Also, I realized that this User Actor that I originally got from @mark and then modified might be useful for similar use cases as well (though probably not for your exact use case).

semi-random-variance.iua3

For any interested parties, I made a patch that allows for Soft Crops in Isadora: soft-crop-2024-02-28-3.2.6.izz

Also, for rounded soft cropping, you can use a round Shapes actor (set the 'facets' input to '128') instead of Background Color actor with this same setup, or just use the TT Vignette GLSL Shader.