Hello All, I need to upgrade my older MacBook Pro laptops to keep up with the programming I am doing. I'm also running my Isadora stages via syphon through MadMapper in order to map the stage rather than individual projectors. I often use a number of projectors in Isadora to create complex layered imagery. Mapping the "projectors" in these patches onto one stage is impossible. So for now this is the hack I've come up with

I'd like to be able to output at least 3 Isadora Stages to three physical projectors for my installations. I'd love to hear what experiences folks doing long term video installations have had with the new MacBook pros and whether there is a graphics card or configuration you recommend. I'm prepared to go "whole hog" but want to be reasonably sure it will all work. If anyone out there is also using MadMapper for their final mapping I'd love to hear your input as well. It would be so great if we could map the stages in Isadora-running both programs via syphon has complicated my life but also proven necessary. 

Hey all,

I'm in a situation designing a show at a university that uses Watchout. I know nothing about Watchout, but I was hoping to design via Izzy. It's not a tremendously tough show but they don't want to recable or dismantle their Watchout system. I'll be honest -- nobody seems to know all that much about Watchout at the university so I'm speaking from a place of profound ignorance. I guess my question is: can Isadora be used "through" Watchout? As I understand it, there are multiple computers running multiple projectors via the Watchout dongle and they don't want to dismantle that...so is there a way that they can integrate? If it is possible, we'll have a Watchout programmer, so it won't be me doing it (thankfull). I searched the forum and all I found was something from 2015. Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

Jake

Hi! Is there a way to manipulate the fps of a movie player/projector directly from the control interface, without having to go to preferences>target framerate? Thanks 

Dear community,

I am using the "Midi enable" actor in my patch and I am trying to do the same thing for OSC, but I couldn´t find such actor. Could someone please point me in a direction how to enable/disable incomming OSC, based on a certain status? Thank you very much helping a fresher!

Best wishes,

Hendrik

Dear community,

I am looking for a way to move a comment actor describtion to the front but can´t find the common "move to the front" option like in a drawing software. So I was wondering if it is not possible at all or if I am just not clever enought?

Thank you for your support!

Hi, I've just tried installing isadoramac-326f00-std.dmg on a MacBook Pro 16-inch 2023 M2 Max running Venterua 13.0 and get the prompt...

To install "Isadora 3 - Standard Version (Intel/ARM)" you need to install Rosetta

i was expecting Isadora to run natively without requiring Rosetta (since i'm not using OpenNi Tracker or any other specific add-ons), so how should i best proceed?

Have also just upgraded from Ventura 13.0 to 13.2.1, with the same prompt. And have logged a technical support ticket

Rgds, Mr J

Hi all,

I would love a little more sophistication of how to deal with internal cues. Right now, there are times that I need to build multiple cues within a single scene. I will use a sequential trigger to sequentially fire the internal cues and then a jump when ready to go onto the next cue. I've nothing against this, it works well, but I would love it if there was a way to incorporate that into the Isadora Cue Numbering system.

Perhaps a Cue Actor (or Trigger Cue Actor) of some sort (perhaps something that uses the new address method that is similar to the OSC address?) If there was a Cue Actor that could go into a scene and then maybe add multiple cue numbers to the scene / and the scene select in the control panel (maybe they live tabbed in under the scene they live in) then you could better identify internal cues.

This could be useful also when using Midi Show Control or the Jump to Cue actor as you could trigger a cue that may be part of a sequence of cues that lives inside a scene. 

Also, I'd love an Activate Cue Actor. Working like the Activate scene, but with the Cue Number function of the Jump to Cue Actor. Would be a useful way to activate background scenes without having to know where exactly they live in your cue stack. 

Thanks so much,

Cheers,

Cam.

Hi, smart people. 

I wanted to create triggers from multiple movie positions in Movie Player, and created this patch (see the screenshot below). I couldn't figure out which actor I could use to take the value of a precise movie position to trigger envelop generators. The only way I could think of was to convert movie positions into actual time using TimeCode View actor and did mental calculations to input numbers in Timed Trigger actors. Can someone tell me the more efficient and precise way of doing this...? 

Thank you!!

So I'm setting up a theater piece with 2 x TH2Go (display port edition).

Real HDMI cables to these 3840 x 1920 displays work fine, even quite long (20m) runs.

But, because we have some even longer runs, we also need to use some Blackmagic HDMI / SDI Microcoverters. Problem is, the TH2Go refuses to recognize the BM Microcoverters – the white "I've got a signal" light near the HDMI input never turns on. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for the quick help!
Mark

Hi all, 

for an upcoming project, I need to use my IDS DBK33GX462 Gigabit Ethernet camera as a live input in Mac OS 10.15.7 Catalina. It doesn't show up in the devices list under "live capture settings".

(and the camera manufacturer The Imaging Source doesn't provide any drivers nor software for Mac OS...)

Any chance I can make it happen ?