@timeg

Not specifically, but with the addition of Python to the program now, one could likely whip something up with that.

@citizenjoe said:

I always leave the monitor attached, because it's very difficult for to troubleshoot without one.

 Excellent point

@knowtheatre

Here's the finished product: patch-scrolling-picture-loop-2024-09-05-4.01.zip

It'll adjust itself automatically to the number of picture files you've imported. This is only tested with pictures that all have the same aspect ratio, so wacky things may happen if you use custom aspect ratio pictures mixed with 16:9 pictures and 4:3 pictures, etc.

Note: I used Enter Scene Value actors instead of initializing values just because it made it more transparent what was going on.

@dusx Thank you!

@reload2024 there are different ways of unwrapping the equirectangular video used for 360. I think the way you are working now uses a spherical projection. For your use case a cube map sounds more appropriate. 

I think you can use ffmpeg to process the video to a cube map https://jiras.se/ffmpeg/mono.html

this should fix the distortion you see when you project into the square room. 

Hi, i would like to use the audio level of a quicktime video that i am playing in the scene as a parameter to manipulate the video. I understood that what was used before for this purpose was the Freq bands property in the Movie Player actor. I do not see the option to display the Freq Bands as the output property in the movie player actor and i read in the previous forum that this became obsolete. Could someone please tell me what i could do? I have read https://community.troikatronix...

but do not know what exactly it means for me to do. If anyone could explain to me, i would be so grateful!
I am using Isadora 4.0.1, running OS 14.5. Thank you very much!

@dbini It is with the pythoner actor!

Here is some cross platform code that will open an external application from Isadora. Funnily I have a memory that this kind of trickery was explicitly blocked from the Javascript actor, but python is another beast.

Put this code in a pythoner actor and change the name of the application to the one you want to launch (it is notepad or textedit at the moment). Due to the way the actor works all you need to do is send a 1 to the trigger input of the actor (or change this to whatever you want to be the trigger). 

import subprocess import platform # python_main is called whenever an input value changes def python_main(input_1):     # Check if the input is 1 (or any specific condition to trigger the action)     if input_1 == 1:         if platform.system() == "Windows":             # On Windows, open Notepad             subprocess.Popen(["notepad.exe"])         elif platform.system() == "Darwin":  # Darwin is macOS             # On macOS, open TextEdit             subprocess.Popen(["open", "-a", "TextEdit"])     return input_1  # return the input back to the output # iz_input 1 "trigger"

Of course use this safely, you wouldn't want to play some mean trick on an operator that launched a whole lot of applications on a scene change.

You can modify this further with chatGPT to make the application launch minimized if you want too, or some other conditions like screen position, and if the application allows you can likely pass some variables to it.

Fred

@pingdesigns 
If the sound file is recorded, you can set up Isadora to sequence the effects. As the sound file starts with a sudden noise (is this the 'clash' you are trying to sync to?) - you could use a Sound Watcher to listen for the start of the track and trigger a series of Envelope Generators so that the End Trigger outputs send your video flash cues. I've done this before when working with prerecorded soundtrack.
It's possible to do this using Trigger Delays, but I find that Envelopes are more obvious - you get to 'see' the pauses between triggers.
The way you chain them together can get a bit complicated, but there are many configurations: You could trigger all of the envelopes at the beginning of the track, each one a little longer than the previous one - this would help you to fine-tune the timing of each end trigger.
If it's being improvised, then you would need another method. How is the composer playing the sounds? is there a MIDI controller involved? you can network machines together and grab MIDI signals from their machine to trigger your video effects.
If it's recorded, can you play the sound file from Isadora? Then you will have timecode to link your effects to using Comparators.

@woland Maybe, if this feature is implemented one day (I also tend to do monster patches...) maybe one of its output is to generate a multi column list where in each line there is one entry (control number on column a, control name on column b, connected actor name on column c connected input on column d and active link status on column e). I think that the status is important because actors in the patching widows don't lose the control ID link number attached to their inputs if the control is deleted. Also it would be nice to have a visual feedback on that (control id number background in control window and actors in patching windows that are not connected could be red if not connected and green if actively assigned). Just a thought

@rosa

try the Matte actors. they enable you to shift a video image around without needing to zoom in.

@woland Thanks! I'll check it out. Really helpful.

@reload2024 said:

posterizer effect

On macOS there are the QC Posterize and CI Color Posterize actors, but they're not ours, we just pull them in from Apple's architecture and they're ancient and inefficient so I usually recommend not using any of the CI or QC actors. If you do go down that route you'll want to use the Video Converter actors (GPU to CI, GPU to QC, CI to GPU, and QC to GPU) to make sure you're using GPU video wherever possible.

Wow! Really appreciate this community's knowledge. Thank you very much

@jfg you're an absolute hero,

I knew that I'd done something like this before, I just couldn't get my brain to work.

Thanks.

@stephan-bergmann said:

Will try to log in to download (Safari is flipping around in this moment with username, ...)

 dx-8211-dmx-universe-8211-enttec-compatible-1.zip

I attached the file from the add-ons. Perhaps you can download this one?

@tingkumajique said:

also wondering why the text output from Isadora looks a little jaggy and not clean even when the resolution is set to 1080P

 To add to Marks thoughts, do remember that in the screen captures shown the Preview Windows are scaled down from the target size. Text will look cleanest when rendered to the full stage output.

Hi everyone! I'm trying out my new MacBook Pro M3 Pro Sonoma

Playing with the speed of the movie player in interactive mode I find that it doesn't play an mp3 audio file smoothly compared to my old MacBook Pro 2015 which has the possibility of using the Quick Time playback engine.
Is there any way to improve this? any settings? maybe a specific codec?
Thanks a lot
Maxi

@joshuawg

These systems shouldn't have changed between Isadora 3 and Isadora 4.

The first thing I would look at is drive health. 

Please open a support ticket and I can see if I can reproduce the issue with your help.

@gertjanb said:

Are there ways to know what might brake when upgrading?

 I think the release notes are probably the best documentation of any breaking changes. In the case of Isadora 2 to 3, we had the shift to 64bit which killed some 32bit fx (thinking about FFGL 32bit here), these where really beyond our control. We don't get rid of things as we add updated/replacement features, instead we take the approach of making things 'classic' and phasing them out so that projects have an easier update path. 

Some search features would be helpful. I would love to get a report for any given actor that provides the breadcrumb path to any instance of an actor. These are things we have talked about and I hope we can get into the software.

Did you ever figure this out @Aolis ? I am looking for something similar!