@dusx Hi! Unfortunately had little success with Izzy and depth camera during our two shows in Yorkshire.

We have one last chance when we perform in Bradford December 15th so I need to iron out as many problems as I can before then.

I believe I need to connect my two macs via ethernet? I have to use my older mac for OpenNI and send data to the new one (M1 max).

Can you advice what cables/router etc I would need?

Thanks in advance, David

@dusx

thanks a lot for your very useful supplement. Since I have always used the Actor OSC Multi Listener, I had not paid any attention to the fact that when renumbering the ports, Isadora jumped for e.g. from 4 to 6 when there were two values at 4.

Thanks again

@boyexploded

Glad you are embracing the power of User Actors. If you haven't yet, I suggest going through the add-ons page, to grab all the great user actors already posted for use there.

wondering if it's possible to edit the help information in a user actor

User Actors don't have that capability yet. It is something we have in our feature requests. I sometimes link a Text actor (double click it to open a text editor window) to a User Actors output and label it as help text. This allows it to be read from outside the user actor. It's a slight workaround. Of course, you can also write comments inside the user actor, with formatting, which can be helpful for documentation.

thanks @jfg @bonemap . Reassured to find it's not just me, though disappointed there's no apparent solution at the moment. Let's hope for some expansion in this area in future updates...

@luciapineda

Hola Lucia,

He hecho un FFGL plugin en Vuo (only mac) que genera un stream NDI cuando conectas la Kinect V2 (podria ser tambien la V1). Si utilizas la app "NDI Virtual Input" puedes acceder a la imagen de la Kinect en la app "VisionOSC" eligiendo el numero de cámara y aplicando los cambios.

Espero que te pueda ayudar.

Javi     

 KinectNDI

@nic said:

it looks like there are still problems on the M2

 Yes, I can confirm that this is an issue. We do not yet know if we will be able to address this or not since it is related to the OpenNi drivers.
Moving to another tracking solution at this time is prudent.
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any IR reading webcams at this time. I have hacked them for this purpose in the past.

@woland Thanks for your reply and info 😀

@aline

its probably better to use different Movie Players in the same scene and trigger them according to when you need each movie to play. You can add Video Mixers or Selectors between Movie Players and your Projector(s) and trigger values to these using various methods, such as Envelope Generator, Trigger Delay or Comparator.
If you initialise the speed of each Movie Player to zero, it will not play until you trigger a value of 1 to it.

@woland

Hi L,

A 3d model file of a Brain neuron, decimated for use in Isadora with rights approval from https://eyewire.org - Not a waveform but a great asset associated with brain anatomy. Let me know if you are interested.

Best wishes

Russell

@vidasonik

Could it be a case of Ableton not sharing the device? (I know this can occur with Asio in PCs).
It can get a little complex once you have a number of Multi-output and/or aggregate devices. 
A screenshot of your Audio MIDI setup would be helpful since I need to walk through the signal flow.

@mr_j @woland can't thank you enough for all your painstaking help with this and amending my set-up so I can create the visuals for the show Saturday!

It was a real please working with you and I feel very grateful for all the trouble you took - and giving me a step by step guide.

I am still puzzled why, for example, Orbbec don't have any custom software to operate their depth camera from a mac.

I will let you know how it all goes on Saturday and hope we can get by communicating between the two macs through their internet network.

All best wishes, David

I've been using the Blackmagic Deck Link Quad 2 and I love it!

Cheers,

Hugh

@woland

Hi, I found a solution to but Traktor Kontrol to Maschine MK3 input with RCA and Plug Adapter.

@slbw90 said:

Can anyone share any video examples of Isadora in action in a live performance?

i use Isadora to VJ live, cutting, scrubbing and jumping multiple video layers to various audio input toggles and levels

you can see examples at https://www.youtube.com/@mr-j/... including some Isadora control screens in action

rgds, Mr J

@merni

I've already got a feature request logged about actors that interact with Q#'s, so I'll add this to it.

I have another idea. I saw you have loopback installed. Perhaps your "to ant" device is made with loopback and you can delete it inside loopback software.

best, Jean-François 

@gaspar said:

in the patch I'm currently working on, I can't activate the audio option through VIEW -> AUDIO, or CTRL+ALT+A. It simply does nothing.Former versions of the same patch (I use to keep older versions just in case I want to go back) allow it. I'm not sure what changes could have caused that.

What happened is that, at some point, you just dragged it really far down to get it out of your way instead of using the menu or keyboard shortcut to hide it. Isadora stores the size you manually assign to the views and by dragging it down all the way the "visible" size for it was manually set to a value that didn't let you see the audio view. Thus when you used the menu or keyboard shortcut to switch between showing and hiding it, when it was "shown", it would be at that tiny (non-visible) size and all that'd be visible is the little divider that lets you drag up and down to make it smaller and larger.

https://recordit.co/dIP9V6vWC4

I'll log this as a bug. We should detect when the size has be manually set to "0" and then override that value and set it back to the default the next time the view is hidden or shown via the menu or keyboard shortcut.

@Vidasonik 

You can also use the OSC Transmit/Receive and OSC Multi Transmit/Receive actors to send data between computers on the same network (so long as you know the right IP address for each computer)

@tupu

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean: 

When you say "random" do you mean that the problem only happens sometimes?

Does the video play in Windows?

You suggest that it shows in stage preview but not on your projector?

Does the projector work? Does it receive video from other software or the OS? Is the projector "extended"?

Have you consulted the help section, especially these:
Isadora 101 - Tutorial 3b: How to Set up Windows 10 for Video Output : TroikaTronix
Isadora 101 - Tutorial 16: Ten Best Practices : TroikaTronix
Performance Optimization : TroikaTronix
Best Practices : TroikaTronix

If none of these work, you should submit a support ticket.

Posting a screen shot of your patch would also help people see what it is that you are doing...

Cheers,

Hugh

@peter this night not be the easiest thing to do. You can programmatically control the screen brightness on iOS see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8936999/how-can-we-programmatically-change-the-brightness-of-the-iphone-screen

you could make a very simple iOS app that runs as a background service and accepts an OSC message from isadora. OpenFrameworks comes with an osc example for iOS, if you add the needed objective c code from page above you are almost there. You just need background activity.