Hi everyone
My question might be a weird one. I have used Isadora with high school students several times for projects (poetryfilms) in my creative writing classes. We've built interactive films using an XBox kinect and it has worked OK. But up until now, the collaboration has been with me on my laptop, which is loaded with Isadora and the OpenNi tracker plugin. My students' role was to write their poems and create the media that they wanted to use with the adobe suite and various other software tools. Based on their vision, I have been the one creating the patches with their media and poetry. So when we test and record the films, we are using my laptop and they are the ones moving in front of the kinect camera. It has been kind of clunky, but the kids have been happy with the collaboration for those particular classes (which are writing classes not computer classes).
This spring, I'd like to actually do a similar unit with my students but rather than building the patches for them, I'd like to teach them some basics on how to use Isadora themselves. So I thought that we'd rent Isadora licenses for a week for each kid. The school is willing to pay for the rentals so that is good, but I am having a hard time imagining how we will all share a my personal kinect camera in an efficient way, and it is definitely out of budget to purchase more kinects. On the other hand, if this one unit goes well, I may be able to convince the school to buy a bunch of perpetual licenses and more equipment so that I can do a much bigger project next year.
Anyway, I have this vague idea that I will create a standard patch to get the students started on their own laptops and then teach them how modify it with other actors. But how do I emulate the kinect input so that they can all work on their individaul projects simultaneously? I was thinking that they could use a mousewatcher actor as input to give them a rough idea of the interactivity while they wait for their individual turns at the camera. Or perhaps could I record a person's movement and have the kids use that recording with their patches while they wait their turns, but it seems like neither of these solutions would emulate the depth that we get with the kinect.
So I thought that I would ask you all. It doesn't have to be perfect. I just want a way to emulate or fake the kinect input so that all of the students can work simultaneously on their own laptops rather than us all sharing one. How do I do this given we only have one camera?
Thanks!
Hello
I am simply using the Movieplayer to play video clips (HAP) backwards. I have unwanted audio clicks/cracks. Clips are running fine backwards on other softwares. I deduce AVFoundation engine might be the problem.
My computer is a Mac running on Monterey 12.5.1.
Though it works fine on Monjave 10.14.
Any clue?
Big thanks
Hello,
has anyone tried to use the Leapmotion on an m1 ? I can't do it even in Rosetta mode..... It looks like Leamotion software itself can't run. Although people at Leap told me that it runs.... A mistery
cheers
am looking forward to the day when Apple integrates OSX and iOS to be the same operating system (gotta come soon now both their computers and phones use the same apple silicon technology), then any app including isadora will be able to run on both a mbp and iphone
In the meantime, any recommendations for building an izzy control interface on the iPhone that includes video in? TouchOSC will let me put buttons and sliders on an iPhone screen interfaced to Isadora, but how can i add video monitor or stage preview controllers to the iphone interface? Maybe using airserver/syphon and/or some other combination?
Rgds, Mr J
Just a self promo... used isadora patches extensively to create the video for this new sound, video and sculpture installation at Rowan University, Glassboro New Jersey, USA.
https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/exhibitions/supercellular_healy_phillips.html
Hello,
What’s the status of VST support? I’d like to use Isadora on Windows Server EC2 instances on AWS. I’d like to de-embed the audio coming in from an NDI source, run it through VSTs, and re-embed it.
Is it possible to force a time-out value for Get/Post URL Text actor? I have to send GET, but would love to be able to constrain the time allowed to not respond to something like 3 seconds.
My use-case is: I have a device (ok: 6 devices) on network that normally responds within 300ms, and I need to send for updates every 5-10 seconds. When one gets stuck waiting for response, my logging grows out-of-sync. Non-response beyond 3 seconds, in this case, should be seen as a failed connection.
Ideally, I'd never have "Busy" = 1 for more than a given duration, like 3 seconds.
Happy to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Thank you for all that you do,
Chad
Hi there,I see that it should be obvious, but could someone give me a hand and tell me how I start running Isadora in Rosetta mode. I still have a small hope that I can use my leap motion with my Mac Studio with Monterey, but something that was imagined to take half an hour is now something that I cannot find neither drivers or nor instructions for. Is there a kind soul to share:)?
Cheers Eva
Im wondering if Isadora might be the right tool for this...
We'd like a stage performer to hand-carry a panel, and have the show control (isadora?) track and project onto the panel as the performer moves. Is this maybe possible using this tool? Has anyone ever seen/executed this type of application?
Thanks.