Dear dallasfields,

Any fonts you add to the system should appear in the font popup of the actors. So that shouldn't be a problem. But Isadora doesn't support multiple fonts within the same actor unfortunately. There just isn't a way to do this at the current time. Best Wishes, Mark

I say call 'em and see if you can get the info. Or at least an email for someone who can answer the question.

Best Wishes, Mark

Ahh, yes, I did add it into the stream setup. That was probably the problem... Now I tried it without and it is not causing any problems now!
Wonderful! Thanks!

@raha
I tried it on my MacBook Pro and don't have stutters or lags. But I cleaned up the patch a bit only one picture player and deleted every second envelope generator that did the same. Maybe this helps a bit. it's the second scene.
What you can do is record the output of Isadora with the renderspeed of 50% and then use that generated movie as source instead. You find all record settings in the output menu of Isadora.

Best,
Michel
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Dear merkeuroney,

I looked up the "wiggler" affect -- it sounds like you want to control the particles _after_ they are generated. The only control you have over that is the gravity x/y/z inputs. I've used the gravity inputs to simulate things like wind, but you might be able to get the particles to "wiggle" if you quickly send a series of random numbers into the gravity inputs, e.g., Wave Generator (set to 'random') at 10Hz -> gravity x You will need to set the 'scale min' and 'scale max' of the gravity input to get good results. (Click on the word 'gravity x' for instance to show the inspector box that allows you to do that.) You'll need to experiment with the scale min/max values to get the right range of response. Best Wishes, Mark

@Skulpture Thanks for helping make this a bit smoother. Being still somewhat new to all this, I'm not sure if @MatthewH 's 'Syphon for Isadora' here: http://matthewhaber.com/page10/page31/ is what I should be looking for? Because it seems then I need QC in order to even open this file...

Sorry if this is all a bit redundant; all help is appreciated.  Cheers, Erin

I just did the same thing last week with my show migrating from qlab to Isadora. I had scene fading issues as well (more related to syphon than anything else) but I found that using scene fade and envelope generators gave me really precise control over scene fades. More experienced users might have a better solution, but this worked for me. I attached a screen shot of the set up.I just realized I didn't attach the 2nd envelope generator to the fader's mix amount, so if you do this, make sure to make that connection. Good luck.

That's the kind of success story I like to hear. Glad you got it done. And thanks to Skulpture and Matthew for making this such an amazing community.

Best Wishes, Mark

The same with Sound Player. We convert audio files to mp3 or mov and play them with Movie Player Actor.

What are you using the MIDI player/MIDI file for? Maybe there is a work-around to what you need to achieve.

Thanks, I'm already on it.

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thanks mark, that's done the trick :)

Thank you, vanakaru, I think the Effects Mixer is what I was looking for.

Thanks I will try this tomorrow!!

i agree with skulpture about there being options on achieving something in isadora and for me that"s just one of it"s strengths.

I tried it a few months ago and it did a bit what I wanted but its a beast to break and it chrashed often.

i've continued my playing with a couple of patches, kind of recreating something i made as a teenager and forming some current research.

i have noticed a quirky behaviour and am sharing the patches so others can test them to see if there is something quirky at my end. goto the scoring scene and find the comment and follow the steps laid out there.... the quirky ness i'm seeing is in a data array actor and only on one input and it's probably really silly and because of that i can't see the solution to the problem. in simple terms i set a value in one scene and in the next it's recalled and it comes out 1 less than it began .... can anyone help ? ps run both patches.

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There could be a few ways of doing this. If you are ok with SD composite inputs you could start with a kramer matrix switcher, this means you can send the same camera to multiple computers you can have 4 capture inputs on each machine (not so easy but it can be done). This way the limitation is the 4 inputs at once, but if you want to have 6 inputs on every machine at once (and have all 6 inputs displayed you will have some trouble, not just because of capture cards but because this is a hell of a lot to ask of one computer- no matter how good it is.

If resolution is not important (if you are displaying all 6 cameras at once the destination resolution cannot be very big) then you can also use quad splitters (hardware) and chop pixels (actor) to get 4 inputs into one capture card.  A little more information we can help you more- a matrix will let you send each camera to many places but how many camera do you need to display at once. I also made a ps3eye to syphon app that supports multiple cameras, you will have to have multiple pcie-usb cards in a tower machine (a sub hub won't do it) to get enough usb bandwidth to have 4 cameras going. I have had good luck with 20m USb extensions and the ps3eye cameras. If you have money you can use SDI based cameras and an HDSDI quad split (you get almost full SD res from a single quadrant of HD), from here you can go into a blackmagic dual HDSDI card- you could have 4 quad splitters per machine and get 8 inputs on each if you needed. This would be a pretty heavy load on a single machine even 2 streams of full HD is a lot of work then the chopping to get the quadrants to a single feed but it is a more professional solution. Fred

Thanks Mehdi, i'll give it a shot!

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thanks everyone!

Very helpful!!!

Cool,
Thanks