@akaje

Hi. This may be a bum steer but can you confirm which OS you are working off..? 

Earlier versions of Isadora were not compatible with Big Sur for Mac OS. One of the tell tale signs was that the output would be a black screen in your stage output.

If you are not running the latest public release, chances are you will need to update this to the latest version...? This is freely available from the get it part of the site.

Latest is 3.08 f12 - I think.. I know 3.07 was not friendly with Big Sur and was a black screen culprit. I got caught out with this during the week...! It took me a few minutes to remember...

Outside of that I would say you are best to post a jpeg of your screen layout and computer spec for other people to advise as to a solution.

Hope this helps.

Eamon

@dusx

thanks! at the moment the quick-and-dirty way with the Pulse Value actor suits my way of working, but when i want a more precise audio response this will be useful.

@eamonn

This is a known issue, and relates to the drawing width of the Scene list itself.
So, you can reduce the size of the panels (shortening the names is also useful) by hovering the mouse over the right side of the Scene and holding down Control (Ctrl on PC), watch for the cursor to change indicating that you can now left click and resize the scene tab.
By minimizing the width of each Scene tab, you can fit more scenes with in the drawing area available.

@hentho

I don't understand why you convert to text. I made an example with minutes and seconds to be able to made quick test:

best

Jean-François 

@eamonn Same!

@deflost NiMate gives an error on launch stating it wasn't shutdown correctly last time, and then goes to taskbar briefly, but then disappears. 

@dusx don't worries, I'm joking! 

For what I have to do it the new sound player works fine!

Thank you!

Francesco

@mark_m

With the Raspberry 4 you have two independent HDMI outputs. And using a program like  Pi Presents you can manage many control features for videos.

@kathmandale 

me too! it   would be a handy feature after all.  but  your  workaround  is  great!

I'm having some trouble with a looping video on Isadora 3 for Windows. 

The videos have been rendered as hap .avi. Whenever I have looping videos, they appear to loop a few frames too early. I've noticed that the counter reaches 99.444 and loops instead of 100. Optimize is set to performance and pb engine is WM.

Hi I am now finally ready to begin using a depth camera with Isadora. I work with a dancer and want to do some interesting stuff! I remember being advised to go for an Orbbec but this was a while ago and things move quickly so what should I go for? Maybe there is no simple answer. Any tips gratefully received! Cheers, David

Hi all

Sorry for the lateness of my reply but it was the chaos before the maelstorm that absorbed my time.

I do appreciate the help from the replies and also from the help & advice received from Ryan Webber via a support ticket.

We are in a good place with the project. One of the things or tricks was to disable the standard intel graphics card that is part of the PC and to run all off the Radeon RX 480 card that is installed on the PC. This is what cleared the Open GL error issue. There seemed little option to bypass or to update the GL drivers in any fashion.

I had updated the win 10 OS to the latest version (H020) and also updated every other driver I could see as part of the troubleshooting. Albeit Isadora was assigned to the AMD Radeon Graphics card, the error persisted until the standard intel graphics card was disabled in the windows device manager section. 

We are now just running off the Radeon graphics card for all AV elements.

I have 4no. Epson UST projectors, a primary monitor for control and an integrated windows touch screen monitor that will be an audience interactive device as part of the presentation. As you can see, I have 6no. monitors whereas I have 5no. outputs on my AMD Radeon card. I am loathe to re-enable the normal graphics card as this is what caused the Open GL error and for the moment, things are working fine.... I have some Matrox triple heads to go so that will probably be the answer for my 5 outputs for 6no. screens.

With the latest version of AMD software and Windows 10, the selection and assigning of a program to the AMD card is now contained in the Windows Displays properties and not in the AMD software. I had asked this question over on their forum as all the guides I encoutnered said look for the option of switchable graphics in the settings menu to no avail....

Again, thank  you to one and all. All advice and guidance is and has been much appreciated.

eamon

@kdobbe

Please open a support ticket (link in my signature) and provide a download link (dropbox or similar) if possible where one of us can take a look at one of the video files that is playing in this manner.
@Woland may be able to recreate your setup and debug the issue further.

@jbbarriere said:

Where is it written,

 by default it will be the desktop, unless you changed it via the Output/Set Captured Media Folder... menu option

@mclefferson

Something that you might find helpful: https://community.troikatronix...
A method of using Luts in Isadora.

Hi,

While challenging myself to work with dynamic data sources, like XML and JSON in Isadora, I managed to gain enough understanding of interpreting simple data structures. Doing that helped to implement solutions using the Isadora Javascript module. In celebration of finally being able to compile successful scripts I made this Javascript library specifically for working with text input. Perhaps there are other Isadora users who will find it useful to access, or cut and paste into their own projects. Working with these modules is not going to be bullet proof so any issues let me know.

The Javascript example patch has five scenes. There are a lot of creative uses for these modules beyond just data sources, but each scene in the patch deals with a number of methods and provides examples for typical text based task that I have found useful when working with text based data sources e.g. XML, HTTP, JSON.

Scene 1: Searching or matching text

Scene 2: Searching or matching multiple text simultaneously

Scene 3: Joining text

Scene 4: Splitting text

Scene 5: Replacing text

bm-javascript-text-examples.izz

@aidan 

The Troikatronix team does not have any ESI products to test with. I am looking into local rental options to expand testing of audio interfaces. I will add ESI to my list. Unfortunately there are far too many brands on the market for us to reach complete coverage.

@citizenjoe @dbini @Fred

Thank you so much all of your for your suggestions / advice, recommendations, and shared experience.

You've raised some really interesting questions about method - IR light stage or performers, for example.

I'm going to go and sit in the tent with the lighting techs and the riggers and ponder the variables, and will report back.

Thanks again!

And John, would be great if you with us in wet, windy Wales, on an industrial estate near Llantwit Major!!

Cheers Mark

@thatmattrogers

usualy there is no need to have the audio being routed through your video chain. It is common practice to have them separated until the point, where they are streamed. This could be OBS on the same machine where Isadora runs (without audio through it), a separated computer or a hardware streamer like a Aja Halo. Only on this final point they get married and streamt right away. You might have to manage some latency issues by delaying audio or video on some point, to have it syncronised. This can be done by OBS or some hardware delay devices.

It is the same for live TV productions or any other, stream or recording.

The only reason to have audio going through izzy, would be effects or generating them from there.

Best

Dill

My general approach to this is:

this gives you the range of Ints: 5 thru 15