Dear Community,

After another fantastic Werkstatt, and seeing some of the great work you are all doing, we've decided to open the Facebook page so that visitors can make posts there. If you've done something with Isadora you want to share with the world, please post it on the official Isadora Facebook page. On October 1st, we're going to close down the Izzy Werkstatt page, because it was rarely used. Hopefully these actions will allow us to consolidate all the existing Facebook groups into one powerful channel.

Right now, posts to the Isadora page will appear immediately. If we find that we have problems with spam, we'll change that to a moderated setting which will lead to some amount of delay between your post and the appearance. Hopefully that won't happen.

Best Wishes,
Mark + The TroikaTronix Team

TroikaTronix is seeking a Berlin based administrative assistant, fluent in German and English, with German as a first language preferred. You can read the full job description on or website. Please feel free to spread this announcement far and wide.

Sincerely,
Mark Coniglio + the TroikaTronix Team

Dear Community,

For your viewing pleasure, please have a look at our wonderful photos from the Isadora Werkstatt 2017. Even if you don't use Facebook, you can see them in this public photo album.

https://www.facebook.com/media...

Best Wishes,
Mark + The TroikaTronix Team

@mark

Dear Mark

Hopefully I am posting this in the right place, as it relates to preloading. I am using Isadora 2.5.2, and have come across what I think is a bug. I am running a show where I need some tight cues, as they have to be in sync with a live orchestra. I have been using the Preload Scene actor. When I fired the cue (trigger step to next scene using the "Go" trigger) I got the video playing with two sound tracks, one slightly delayed. It took me a while to determine what was causing this. I found the following: If you are in a scene where you have a Preload Scene actor, and have triggered it, if you use the Hide Stage (Ctl G), and then the Show Stage (Ctl G), when you trigger the Go for the next scene, you get two soundtracks, one slightly delayed. I have tried it again, and if I do the same sequence it consistently happens. I think this is a bug, but would be welcome for a correction to the way I operating Isadora. In any case, it is dangerous, as if you do hide a stage to do a tweak, there is nothing to tell you that a preload will cause a problem

Regards

Trevor

@mark said:

What is the name of the process that does the syncing in Adobe CC?

 Hi, I would have attached the following in a text file but it appears attachments are disabled for this thread. There were a few other Adobe entries in the list, but what follows looks like it might be what you are after.

best wishes,

bonemap

  690   0        0:28.10 /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Sync/CoreSync/Core Sync.app/Contents/MacOS/Core Sync

  691   0        0:05.24 /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../libs/node /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../js/main.js

1540307123   690   8:22am ?? /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Sync/CoreSync/Core Sync.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/A/AdobeCRDaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobeCRDaemon 690 Core Sync 2.4.3.114 /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Sync/CoreSync/Core Sync.app/Contents/Resources/CreativeCloudIcons.icns /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Sync/CoreSync/Core Sync.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/A/Adobe Crash Reporter.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Crash Reporter

Dear Community,

Well, despite the best efforts of myself and the team, two bugs slipped into the v2.6 release that are affecting specific users. We have a fix both of those which you can see below

The more serious of the two was a Mac OS only "memory leak" when playing HAP movies under AVFoundation. As many of you understand, Isadora supports both AVFoundation (Apple's newer technology) and QuickTime for movie playback. (The movie player 'pb engine' output tells you which one is being used, saying either QT or AV.) HAP Support for AVFoundation was new in v2.6, but there was a memory leak would lead to slowdowns and potential crashes because they would run out of memory.

If you ran Isadora v2.6 with the internet turned off, you may have encounter slowdowns after a couple of minutes and an eventual crash. This was due to the updated algorithm that checks for new versions of Isadora. This may have shown up in either the macOS or Windows versions of Isadora. If you were with an active internet connection, you wouldn't have seen this problem.

Finally, Isadora wouldn't run at all on macOS 10.9. As shown in our "Support Policy", from this point forward we will only test two operating system back, which currently means Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.11 (El Capitain.) However, we didn't really give any of you advance warning on this, so I took the time to fix it so that Isadora would continue to work on 10.9 for now.

That said, you can expect that the oldest macOS for which we guarantee compatibility for the next macOS release (10.14) will be 10.12.
Below are the links for a "hotfix" beta that will address the issues above. We're going to let the dust settle for a couple more days before we officially release v2.6.1, just in case something else comes up. But if you are affected by the three situations above, please feel grab this version.

Uploads will be complete at 12 noon Berlin Time, January 23 2018

Mac - Standard Edition - Hotfix Beta v2.6.0b4

Mac - USB Key Edition - Hotfix Beta v2.6.0b4

Windows - Standard Edition -  Hotfix Beta v2.6.0b4

Windows - USB Key Edition - Hotfix Beta v2.6.0b4

I just like to share that I've just successfully finished a fairly decent size production with 2 channel video hologram projection, 6 LED lights DMX controlled by Isadora and video-sound sync-play with Qlab, all of these were done through Isadora V2.6 and I've had no unexpected problems. Just like to share some positive feedback on this new version :)

Dear All,

Because it came up in a support ticket, I've revised and improved our knowledge base article about using the various Preload actors. You can really get yourself in trouble if you're not careful – take the time to read this article if you make use of those actors!

Best Wishes,
Mark

@citizenjoe said:

But maybe that could be its default? Or there could be a note explaining that?

 Yeah, I thought about that. Probably something to help make it obvious where to start would help.

I'll change it.

Sorry that you had to search!

Best Wishes,
Mark

Dear Community,

I've just made Isadora v2.6.1 live on the "Get It" page of our site.

Now, there were actually a few versions of v2.6.1 because of different bugs that we discovered and fixed as we handled the bigger bug that got out in v2.6. I put the latest build up yesterday.

So, even if you already have a non-beta copy of v2.6.1, everyone should download this latest version of 2.6.1 and re-install over whatever you have now!

To make it easy for you, here are the URLs:

https://troikatronix.com/files... (mac standard)
https://troikatronix.com/files... (mac usb key version)
https://troikatronix.com/files... (win standard)
https://troikatronix.com/files... (win usb key version)

Thanks for your patience, support and help as we worked out the bugs in v2.6.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Very handy to know. I would never have thought/remembered about MIDI drivers for example. 

Thanks!

Dear All,

For the third year running, TroikaTronix is sponsoring a residency for creators deeply exploring the relationship of dance and media at the Lake Studios Berlin. You can read about it, and download the application, here:

Lake Studios Berlin/TroikaTronix Dance Tech Residency

I hope to see some of your names among the applicants!

Best Wishes,
Mark

It also appeared on all 15 on the backstage machines @mark. All good. 

Hey folks,

I'll be teaching a two day introductory Isadora workshop at the Live Performers Meeting in Rome this June 7 and 8. I'm designing the workshop especially for artist and VJs types, so if you know someone who might enjoy that – and experiencing the unfettered late night wildness of LPM – then please let them know. 80 EUR for the entire experience. Specific details can be found at this link.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Yes.  I got it working by highlighting some text and then adding the file. It makes the text the link. (Don't need to add the name.)

@mark_m
I believe all DirectShow playback will be 64bit, so this means Hap Avi will be 64bit.
I just did a show using all Hap Avi content (128gb of content) and the only issue I have with it (other than know limitations like no backwards) was the compression time. It is slow.
It took days (using adobe media encoder). Where I was able to make a Hap MOV (backup plan) batch (using Livids Batch utility 'no longer available'), took just a few hours.

thankyou! very belatedly just updated to High Sierra and first software I checked of course was izzy. There was an audible 'pop' as it crashed each time, but this fix seems to have done the trick.

Hi Isadora Community!

We're trying out a new way to share knowledge in the Isadora community - a livestream Q&A. Join me this Thursday at 12PM EST on YouTube. I'm going to be creating an example of how to use the Live Drawing actor while taking any Isadora use questions you might have!

Dear community 

Due to persistent performance problems with the forum on our current server, we will change provider and upgrade to a dedicated server next weekend (August 25th - 26th). To avoid a complete failure of every aspect of our web presence, the forum and other Troikatronix services will run on the dedicated server, the website and email on a shared hosting system.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope we can support you afterwards with less downtime and other issues.

If you have problems during this time, please contact us via our Facebook page.

Best Michel and the Troikatronix Team

Thank you so much @mc_monte , really enjoyed that one. Specially the Calc Angle 3D, that gives the motion tracking really a new dimension. Really looking forward to the 2nd part, where you show more example how you use that.

You mentioned you are going to share the patch in the forum: would that be in this thread?