Hi all again
I am just following up on this. I have some related queries if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I did not want to start a new thread so I am assuming it is ok to use a similar thread on this topic...?
I have been issued with an excel sheet of movements with the Timecode markers.
Query 1:
I have been going through this file with some updated information from the musicians behind the scene.
For the running of the piece, they are looking for the Conductor's monitor to a) display timecode - fine and no issue, b) display the name of each movement at the timecode point.
For this second part, I am using a timecode comparator and triggering a user actor to snap in/fade out a projector intensity for the required text as a lower third. The logic of this seems to work and it is fine per single utterance of the TC & user actor here
To make it "smarter", I am looking to put all of this in a second user actor so I can update the one item and move on. There are approx 50 time code points and names. I have made three so far and all are contained in the now one user actor. The problem I am running into is that the text order and the timecode keep changing upon edit e.g. if I edit the first TC point and then edit the second it seems fine. When I leave the user actor (save etc) and go to the top level, the times and text information have all changed.
I believe that it is my user actor within user actor that is the problem....? I can separate all TC triggers out but I am looking to keep the properties of the user actor for the inevitable editing that will happen down the line.
Is there a trick here that I am missing?
Query 2:
- I am looking to run a control panel for the rehearsals with the scenes ready for triggering. As noted, I now have the TC action points for the movements and I want to be able to click a button and jump to that point in the track. Once the scene is lined up, I can then press the play button. Simple and rinse and repeat.
I was planning to use the trigger value actor but now that I have the timecode per movement, is there a "better" way to do this? I am stumped as to how to convert the timecode to a trigger value. I am sure there is a way but i cannot figure it out. There is not doubt a way here and again would be grateful for a pointer.
Query 3:
- I am not sure if this is a bug or a quirk that I am unaware of.
I have created a user actor for Play/Pause/Reset. This is simple enough and utilises p & r on the keyboard.
Whenever, I use the control ID, the input/keyboard watcher letters all disappear from the actor and I have to reset them in the user actor. It seems that control ID/connection does not like the user actor. I have tried a couple of options, targeting directly into the user actor, changing settings on the control ID pop up box etc.
I cannot see where I am going wrong here and would be grateful for a pointer please.
I am attaching the file here to for others to see my patch.
I do not wish to have others do the work for me but I am just looking to see where the errors may be in my syntax etc.
I am running the latest version of the Isadora.
thank you all.
eamon
mise-test.izz
