Dear Alex,

I updated the section on the "Default Resolution" in the manual to make its function more clear. Here's what it now says. The Default Resolution determines the resolution of a video stream when no other reference is available. There are two general situations when the Default Resolution setting comes into play. First, when an actor generates video and has no video inputs to determine what the resolution should be, e.g., the Video Noise actor. For these actors, the output resolution will always be forced to the Default Resolution setting. Second, when actors with one or more video inputs have one of those inputs disconnected, e.g., the Text Draw actor or Video Mixer actor. For these actors, a black frame will be generated at the Default Resolution to provide a “signal” for the missing inputs. To make this more clear, we’ve provide two examples of the second situation mentioned above. For purposes of these examples, we'll assume the Default Resolution is set to 320x240. First, let’s say you have a Text Draw actor. Its 'video' input (which allows the text to be drawn on top of another video stream) is disconnected. In this case, the output resolution of the Text Draw actor would be set to the Default Resolution of 320x240, because the black frame replacing the missing video input will have a resolution of 320x240. Second, let’s consider a Video Mixer actor. The first video input is connected to a video stream with a resolution of 1920x1080\. The second is not connected. Since there is no input to the second video input, a black frame with is generated at the Default Resolution of 320x240\. Now the Video Mixer must scale one of the two videos (the 1920x1080 input and the 320x240 black frame) so that their resolutions match. How this scaling is performed in this situation is controlled by the When Combining Video popup menu described in the next section. If this parameter is set to: Scale To Smallest (Faster) then the 1920x1080 video will be scaled down to 320x240 and the output will be 320x240. Scale To Largest (Slow) then the 320x240 video will be scaled up to 1920x1080 and the output will be 1920x1080. Scale to Default Resolution then both inputs are scaled to the Default Resolution of 320x240. The black frame is already 320x240, so it won’t be scaled. But the 1920x1080 video will be scaled down to 320x240 and the output will also be 320x240. If, on the other hand, you had both video inputs of the Video Mixer actor connected – and if their resolutions were different from each other – then only the "When Combining Video" setting is used when deciding how the videos are scaled. In this case, the Default Resolution would only come into play is if When Combining Video popup menu is set to Scale to Default Resolution. Does this explain things for you? Best Wishes, Mark

And today version 2 of Air Display came out

Ok then. Good talk, guys, good talk.

Hello, recent and today's update in leap motion drivers leads us to some thinking in order to help Gego and other middleware to get data into Isadora (although an izzy actor in c would be the ideal thing because software like geco is using 27 % of an intel 2.7 ghz i7 with 16gb of ram under Maverick.) Now. Geek osc version is just great we can write our own tags! But the new version of leap motion driver is really stunning for a few reasons. 1) Leapmotion visualizer seems to overcome somehow crossing hands. If you switch hands horizontally your right hand is now left of screen but it is the right hand. And same for the left of course. 2) Turning a hand bottom up doesn't mixes fingers!!!! If you out right hand hand palm up now the thumb is in the right place. 3) And even better, It seems to be able to recognize what hand is in the field even if the hand is bottom up!!!!! Wow! Hands right thumb is still right thumb on screen even if right hand enters on the left end of the sensor's field of vision with palm up!!!!!!! I can see this because if I do this geco's right hand valus start to trigger. Geco has a clever way to to this called dexterity detection. And it is good it stays that way for precision. But now everything seems right just out of leap driver. In my opinion this means that leap people ttought the driver to recognize hands geometry in order to detect which it is and if it is bottom up or normal palm down. As for geco I would suggest an option that ignores if fingers are open or closed. It would be just a “palm orientation” feature because otherwise you always have to be with spread fingers and cannotrelax or the contrary. Now, this can be avoided in geco addressing open and closed fingers to the same osc tags or midi channel and controller and then “linking the 2 modes (spread and closed) with the linking chain in geco. But it is quite a bit of work… Now I’m dreaming…. And if geco could also receive midi or osc and have different preset in a same document. We could hand or sensor trigger diferent presets for different moments or funcions of the installation….. Maybe version 2? Best

Nice!

Dear Tess,

Just because a device accepts video does not mean it is suitable as an input to Isadora. My guess is that your Kaiser Baas DVD Maker device is like the [Blackmagic VideoRecorder](http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/videorecorder). The VideoRecorder accepts live video, but uses it's own hardware and software to directly encode the file to H264\. This device simply isn't designed for live input, but instead is designed to encoded the video directly to the hard drive. (Just because you can see a live input in their software doesn't mean that they've provided the necessary drivers for QuickTime and/or VideoGlide to see the device -- they are using functions private to their device to show you the live image.) So it may be that, like the Blackmagic VideoRecorder, there is no way to use your device as a live input. The easiest way to check this is to use QuickTime Player instead of Isadora and [do a "New Movie Recording"](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4024?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US) to try to see the device. If QuickTime Player can't see it, neither can Isadora. Best Wishes, Mark

Thanks Mark!
Maybe it would be useful to mention that you can edit your layouts with Hexler's app:
http://hexler.net/docs/touchosc-editor

Hi All,

I have finished my Midi Map for the Berhinger CMD MM-1 and CMD LC-1. I've played with it a bunch but it has not been thoroughly tested.

I thought I would share it here in hopes that someone will find it useful and also to see if anyone had any feedback for me. I not 100% that I am implementing the toggling for the buttons correctly.

All the best.

Justin
826f88-behringer-cmd-midi-map-v4_1.izz

Hello Mark,

any news about having more TCP streams ? I have an important project that needs something like 15-20 pieces of hardware to be controlled. Regarding the crossgrade I think at the time I bought the software with madido@freemail.it address that doesn't exist anymore. Honestly I don't remember if I paid normal price or not, but I need to run Isa on both OSX and Win. Thank you Stefano

Hello,

I'm trying to obtain a list of clips from a Hyperdeck video recorder via TCP-IP; the recorder send me the reply as in attached jpg. I can use a TCP in Watcher to read this message using an eol command to divide the infos for every single clip (jpg 2) with multiple "name:string=eol" patterns, but as I don't know the number of clips on the machine, if I set more patterns that number of clips there is no match between parsing string and TCP in. using element 'characters' does not help because it cannot manage whitespaces. Any suggestion? Thank you Stefano

f086b7-tcp.jpg 0e0324-tcp-2.jpg

Yes.. it would be a great feature to be able to link actors displays the out user actors.
User actors could potentially have a few displays that correspond to different internal elements.

for now the only option is to create a new setup display (to video/stage) that you can turn on off.. like CornerPin etc..

thanks for the hint with Soundflower.... now i can use the Pd sound as a sensor.

Diether

Hi Mark,

I would try to marry a Syphon client and libvlc for streaming to roku (you seem to imply it can accept RTSP stream). The last part (RTSP streaming) is described here:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4900929/libvlc-simple-c-streaming ? --8

cool beans. I am working on a project which has a grand MA desk controlling isadora. I would like to dig deeper and understand more about the TCP actor and lanbox.

It appears that OSCulator is a Mac-only application. Thanks anyway.
Anyone have any help for my problem on Windows?

Thanks.

Maybe add mark's mail to knowledge base?

Hi All,

Using [this openframeworks branch](http://forum.openframeworks.cc/t/ofxkinect-issue-with-kinect-model-1473/11632), I was able to send kinect 1473 depth image to Isadora via Syphon on OS X. Let me know if there is a need, and I will be happy to put this app up for grabs. Thanks. --8 UPD: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/pull/362

works with latest isadora core capture to disk actor, on mavericks with logitech usb-webcam, dose not need any maccam or third party webcam driver.  osx 10.9

Hi vanakaru

you might want to check that http://www.pulsecontroller.com very low latency. if you know pure data or max all is due to an object called bonk. 

With Skulpture on that one: always use your own private network. It's dead easy to setup and you're in control of all the settings. Networks in theatres or on location can be quite iffy especially - but not only restricted to - when there's an audience in the house