@citizenjoe said:

I copy a scene and duplicate it over and over again if I want to do that. Cmd/Ctl-D is really fast!

 This is what I do as well. 

When building a show I create a "TEMPLATE" scene with everything I might need in it, then duplicate it for each Isadora Scene I need to make.

@thatmattrogers said:

I still have to put in a table actor to map the key input to the desired scene.

 If you order your scenes sequentially according to the buttons, then you can just use a calculator instead of a table to handle whatever offset you need. 

E.g. if you need buttons with values 9-63 to trigger scenes 1-55, you can do this:

If you need the offset to go the other way, just switch the calculator to add.

e.g. if you need buttons with values 0-47 to trigger scenes 1-48, you can do this:

OK I now have a user actor which shows a green indicator for the current scene, has a lit button for "go" and "prev", and intelligently checks how many scenes there are in your patch and gives you a lit button linked to a jump actor for each one. Thanks to everyone who helped, as ever, any new task completed in Isadora comes with lots of new understanding for future projects.

If anyone has this same controller and would find this patch useful; here's the user actor that does all the stuff.

akai-apc-mini-control-final.iua3

@dillthekraut

I have changed both factors, it changes the velocity but it is working.

I went ahead and made an edit of my live drawing patch set up for tracking. You'll still need to watch Mark's tracking Guru Session because the patch is not at all calibrated for tracking. 

The edit is the second Scene. I added green Comment actors to draw your attention to things that are different from the previous Scene.

I had a slight frustration with Companion because it only works over a network connection and not via USB.

after a little more research I came across this prototype for a MIDI to ATEM program.

I suspect that this will be beyond my skill to configure properly but I thought I'd share it as a possible avenue.

https://github.com/chrisspiegl... 

@mr_j said:

i don't think it's currently possible to "get video duration" (h:m:s) for any movie

(Sorry for the thread necromancy, I'm going through the Feature Request section to make sure we caught everything).
I just wanted to note that the addition of the "Timecode Converter" actor in 3.1 provides this function

@woland

@DillTheKraut 

I was thinking about using global value actors or adapt Woland Midi patch (you gave it to us at Werkstatt '19!), really useful but bit tricky. As @kathmandale said, you can take inspiration from ETC Eos software to implement the show control system

@dusx Oh, ok, it makes sense that moving the Output mapping will behave the same as Vertical Position. Thanks for explaining it. Cheers.

@thatmattrogers that would also do it. Thanks for that. There are multivarious means for exuviating a feline in Isadora, but I do like the single-actor simplicity of the 'Pulse Values' solution proposed by @jfg 

@dako-ark

Assuming the 3D Rect Project is going to a Stage, use a Stage Preview Control.

Thank you both! 

@Juriaan: This worked perfectly--thank you! I can go back to clumsily dancing this little dude around. 

@bonemap: Ah! That makes a lot of sense to me now. I'll work through your example skeleton patch and keep trucking along.

@eamon

oh, and the codec should be something like AppleProRes or HAP. h264 does not work so well with speed changes.

Best Michel

@dusx thank you so much! this is very helpful.

Thanks @jfg, i added a control button to the trigger and a short trigger delay before the take snapshot and this works well, so long as i remember to take snapshots using the button and not the camera icon

@jtoenjes

You can do either.

If you only want the newer version, simply install into the same program folder (the default is great). If you want multiple versions, installed, give each its own uniquely named program folder.

@jivrodriguez Could you get everyone to join a Zoom call with their personal devices and then use the free version of ZoomOSC to get a copy of the zoom chat room into isadora via OSC?

@thatmattrogers said:

2: how many different NDI feeds can I run on the same network into Isadora without any trouble?

This depends on your network and the computer on which you are running Isadora. 

We don't limit how many NDI feeds you can bring into Isadora, it's just a question of at what point all that video is too much for your computer.

@inst @DusX

hi, ok I understand better. The treadmill thing is more tricky because this means that the torso z plane won't move. But there might be another way.

One more body movement analysis thing that might help is that while a step is done there is a so called transference o weight. This means that that the center of the two hips moves on the x plane roughly above the foot that is pushing WHILE the other foot is on the air.

Other way is to se that the foot on the air is moving on the z plane in a negative value (goes closer to the camera) while the foot that pushes move in a positive value (in a direction far from the camera. In this case, in pseudo code this would mean

Check for the foot Z AND Y positions : look for the direction inversion of each foot and trigger the sound when a foot z values start to invert. 

Beware that the 30 fps of the camera will introduce a little delay between the calculation of the inversion and the sound triggering.  

I hope I am clear.

All the best

Hi,

Keep in mind that latency in this case is "frame based". It means that if you run at 50fps, your latency in ms will be divided by 2, as each frame lasts half of the time.

Also, I can confirm that the GH5 is quite "slow". There is a latency of around 5 frames I think on the HDMI output.

Mehdi