Magnificent indeed!!! Perhaps they'll be reintroduced: there's quite a strong guerrilla rewilding movement here in the UK...

(inputs for width of slit and speed would be nice, horizontal and vertical offset might be interesting)

 Logged :)

I’ve seen Linux growing a lot in recent years, and I’ve already migrated a large part of my workflow there for other things.

My main workload is still happening on macOS, but for installations and other projects, I use Linux a lot.

This forum and its community is wonderful.

Many, many thanks!

Simon

I'd recommend building your file using the OSC Address Listener actor.

That way, whatever tool you made to do this can be put into a User Actor and used in any file instead of being locked to this one specific Isadora file because of Stream Setup.

Many thanks for the pointers and info. Sorry for not getting back earlier, just the day it has being.

I think jfg has nailed it for me.

The Trigger Text actor seems to be what I seek.

I have been overthinking this. I, effectively, juat need a placeholder that allow me to have a one button entry for a set time which enables the streamdeck usage.

My custom timer has a countdown that works like a traffic light in terms of the colour warnings. I do a lot of death by powerpoint and I am looking to use the timer as a notification to the presenters.

By using the trigger text actor, I can set the placeholder for the time on the screen. This time may change from presenter to presenter and I am just looking to automate this via a streamdeck. Not all around me are familiar with Isadora (give it time!) etc. Previous to this, I was just editing the various sections on the patch. I now have other people coming into the workplace and this will allow me to populate the streamdeck with standard times, start, stop etc in the streamdeck.

I was confusing the issue with TC but JFG's suggestion got me thinking ref the trigger text. I have two items I wish to achieve, a placeholder and a countdown timer. I was looking at this process as one action rather than two actions if actually is.

I had a quick try out and in a rough manner it works. 

Many thanks all and I will gladly accept the award for the most obtuse query of the year.

Hopefully that explains my methodology.

Thank you

eamon

You can use the Brave browser if you do not have youtube premium. It removes all the ads.

 Off topic: I've never heard of Brave Browser before - it looks amazing. Thanks, for the tip!

Cheers,

Hugh

I would also suggest going the GLSL Shader route. LLMs can do pretty well if you feed them the contents of Tutorial 3 here and the guts of one of the existing TT GLSL shaders as an example, so that they can understand the formatting requirements.

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Best regards, 

Jean-François 

And I want to create an actor that will read the incoming MTC and immediately jump to the correct scene.

 The question for me, is how do you find editing these timecodes to be easiest. I would build your approach around what you find easiest to edit/adjust.

With that said, you use the standard method of mutating your inputs/outputs to the expected types. 

 @Aolis 

These User Actors of mine can be quite useful for that: https://troikatronix.com/add-ons/mutator-user-actors/

Thanks, Ryan.

It'd just be a stream from an IP Camera on the local network, so I think the OBS / NDI solution will work fine for my needs. 
I'm sure you have better things to do with your time :-)

Cheers

Mark

point by point process

 Yes, only the selected points will move, and they all move the same amount. I 'stretch' type move would be a great feature request though. I will add this. 

thanks, that's a helpful suggestion. And yes, I'm running Blackhole so i can send it out and back using different channels.

I'm guessing restoring that function within the movie actor is not likely to happen soon. What a pity Apple messed up Quicktime.

thanks @jfg @skuven 

Hope this helps! 

Simon

dmx-lighting-artnet-send.izz

In the program you can also go to Help > Isadora Manual...

The section Actor Reference is what you're looking for

Thanks. Just found this topic. I assume it's all still relevant. Thanks this is just what I need as I'm setting up the exact same hardware.

another possibility on Mac is syphon Recorder. I use it always, it is easier to configure as OBS and it works very well:

https://syphon.info/recorder.html

Best regards, 

Jean-François

Are there other ways to fade into the next scene with  a jump actor that use those times? is there a way to automatically grab those times?

You could also just use one of the different Jump actors (for example Jump By Name) and set your fade times in the Jump actor. I usually don't use the Scene fade times and use jump actors instead. This might be a lot of work depending on whether you've already got a bunch of cues programmed. 

Generally, I use a Background actor renamed to "#CUES" and put stuff like the Jump Macro you've built in there. Then I put that Background in the same place in every Scene (generally top right) so that I know where it is in any given Scene and, since the Background actor has been renamed to "#CUES", I can use the hashtag list to jump to it easily if I need to find and edit it.

I tend to make a template Scene with the stuff I need most often and just copy-paste that Scene when I need to create a new Scene, then modify the copy. It'll already have whatever Jump actor I'm using with a default timing of 3 seconds in it, so that I don't need to manually set that every time and only need to change that number if I want a different fade time for a specific Scene.

You need the absolute value to switch between 0 and 1. Without it will switch between -2/+2

 You can also go into the property inspector and change the min and max of the 'speed' input from -2 to 2 > 0 to 1. Then you can connect a Toggle to it directly.

Additionally, taking a look at the timing logic from this example file of mine might be helpful for understanding more about how to do this kind of thing: https://troikatronix.com/add-ons/random-media-random-duration/

https://community.troikatronix.com/post/40886

https://community.troikatronix.com/post/51632

a bit dated but the concepts are helpful: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/5467/body-mapping-with-isadora