@woland

Thanks for your advice on this. I have looked into what kind of investment would be required to go with a single  computer solution or Datapath FX4’s but the reality is the MacMini M4 is a much better value proposition at this time. With 3 x MacMini I am provided a total of 9 potential discrete video outputs and greater long term flexibility, while remaining well under the current price point of Datapath FX4. At this point It appears to me worth the extra fiddling around with Isadora programming. I do take the point about reducing the over all number of Movie Players, that is a great approach!

Best wishes

Russell

@callie

The input on the Broadcaster is mutable, meaning it will change to match the data type and range (if any) of the first output to which it is connected. Sounds to me like you've connected the Broadcaster actor to an actor that has caused it to adopt the range of the other actor like this:

Figure 1: Range of Wave Generator 'value' output property is min:0, max:100

Figure 2: Range for fresh Broadcaster actor's 'value' input is min:MIN, max:MAX

Figure 3: Once connected to the Wave Generator, the range of the Broadcaster actor's 'value' input mutates to match the range of the Wave Generator; min:0, max:100

@dusx

I've tried deleting the media on prompt when closing the file, or using the Delete Captured Media button in the Output dropdown.

Dear All,

thank you for your answers !

Sadly, I have no skills for any of these solutions, and most of all, it's for live performance so it's already a mess to hold computer, wifi webcam and play in front of so we decided to skip this scene.

Btw thank you anyway !

Popopoooo, thank you JF and DusX !

It was super helpfull :) I have now the feddback that I needed, lessssgo to perform now !

@marco-0

If you post the original file I can take a look, but without that or more information there's not much I can do

Hi everyone,

I recently replaced a Christie lamp projector with a laser projector and kept the same Medialon integration. Previously, I used the TCP command HIS+LMP6 to retrieve and display lamp hours on the user interface. This worked perfectly with the lamp-based unit.

However, with the new laser projector, this command no longer functions and returns an error. I suspect that the laser model uses a different parameter for tracking usage hours, but I haven't found the correct command yet.

Has anyone dealt with this issue before or know the correct TCP command to retrieve laser hours or operating hours from Christie laser projectors?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

@giel

Yes, the NDI HX camera is great.

Also EpocCam works well. But I prefer the NDIHX.

@dbini said:

I wonder if Python could achieve a similar result?

 Python or Javascript, shouldn't have any problem with this.
Just restart a timer when a new value arrives, and have a pulsed trigger that has the time checked constantly, making updates as needed.

@donald

If you want to have more than two videos, you'll need to switch to some other setup. Something like this: Download (same file, just added a third Scene)

@tr742

No problem :)

Nice project. Glad it was a success.

Hi Alex,

I did something similar yesterday in Oulu Dance Hack, using a feedback loop through an Effect Mixer with a Video Delay. Super simple, but quite difficult to imagine the results.

The Video Fader controls how much of the image is fed back into the system. Zero gives you an infinite buffer, 3 or 4 gives a long fade out. 
Its particularly effective if you can control which bits of the image get fed into the system. I was using lighting in a dark space, but you can use something like Difference to split off part of the image and get it looping, then combine it back with the initial feed with an Alpha Mask or something similar.

@juriaan said:

Get Value and Set value

Get Global Values and Set Global Values

I find that best practice with this is to put the Set Global Values actor in a Background Scene if I only need to adjust the values via a Control Panel, then put the Get Global Values actors in my other Scenes. 

A big difference between Broadcaster/Listener and Set/Get Global Values is that a Get Global Values actor will push its values when you enter the Scene that contains it, but a Listener actor will only push data when the Listener and its corresponding Broadcaster are both in active Scenes and the value going into the Broadcaster is actively changing. Another difference is that Broadcaster/Listener actors can also transport video, which Set/Get Global Values cannot.

When in doubt about what an actor, or one of its inputs/outputs does, you can always right-click an actor and choose the top contextual menu option "Show Actor Help in Browser" to open a single page with all of the help text for the actor and its inputs and outputs. 

@dusxthis Thank you, this is helpful.

@woland said:

I am afraid of snakes*

 me too.

thanks

@woland, I wasn't sure how to incorporate the hold range and scale actor. I created what appears to be a workaround, as I am now receiving a signal. What issues do you see this workaround potentially causing?

@crystalhorizon said:

Is there an example file

The example file is available on the add-ons page: TROIKATRONIX : ISADORA - Pythoner Example File

Regarding the monitor window, I open it and check it because, Pythoner will print out any errors to the monitor window, so it is very helpful to have it open when you are working with Pythoner.
!! open it before running your code, otherwise you can lose the output.
Also, when writing Python, any print() calls you add will print directly to the Monitor window, which is very helpful in figuring things out.
The other thing I am doing at the same time as opening the Monitor window is opening and closing the Pythoner code editor, this is because that forces the code to initialize and can provide feedback about missing modules or other issues.

@juriaan Thanks for your input on this! I have the Enttec and am working with it. Look forward to seeing this work around. Much appreciated!

Hi

I am just chiming in with my 2cents. I have been in this position and trying to sync video with external audio. There was no real way to do this nicely as the audio will stutter etc.

Upon asking here about 6 years ago, I followed the advice and edited the video(s) together so it is just one "super" video. 

Easiest way to do it even if it requires setting aside some editing time. Your edit is not a big ask and it is the simplest way out of your issue. 

Kinda the only way to ensure sync tbh.

Eamon