Cuepoints

kdobbe

This program which I have recently discovered, has integrations with multiple existing softwares. This type of SEMPTE-based cues would be amazing with Isadora.

It would be great to see Isadora as one of the companies listed for integration.

jtsteph

@kdobbe

Looks cool. As a non-mac guy (cuepoints is mac only), I am intrigued by the idea of building a timecode cue system. It would kind of blur the line between performance and post production.

I could imagine using Davinci Resolve's markers system, and export the markers as a csv spreadsheet that contains marker timecodes, names and notes.

One could come up with a way of using the marker names and notes to notate cue types, fades etc. There is an MTC reader in Isadora that could be rigged up to sync/run with your audio cues. Isadora can read the CSV and the Javascript actor to build trigger logic - Claude AI or Chat Gipity would make short work of this. There's probably many better ways of doing this - this is just some rough thoughts.

This would not be as pretty as Cuepoints, but I think it could be very very flexible and quite possible to get something up and running in a reasonable amount of time.

Woland

I'll log this, but in the meantime I have a thing that might be useful if you're interested in Timecode.

When I need to work with LTC, I've used Figure 53's free software Lockstep to convert LTC to MTC so that I can use the timecode actors in Isadora to trigger things.
Once I have MTC coming into Isadora, this User Actor for triggering things with Timecode I made 3 months ago may be useful. (It's basically just the actors you'd need surrounding a Timecode Comparator, but it simplifies the process a bit.): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4r75lr4xwqgchb5mwawdj/AOvNdB1ue4wV6D9_Hvi_5lM?rlkey=terndwrsoocwwaniyik0bncfv&st=z294lln8&dl=0

jtsteph

@woland Very cool. With my animation and compositing brain, I imagine hundreds of cues. I am going to have a think about how I could use the data array actor or something like this to advance to the next timecode cue once a cue has been reached.

This way I could perhaps rig something up that would allow me to use multiple tracks of cues, for different kinds of actions, all synced to the same timecode. As a cue is reached on each track, it would produce a trigger, load the new cue timecode, and then wait for the new timecode cue.

Cool!

Thanks.

Armando

@kdobbe It has been a regular question the timeline one here. You can also see Ossia software distributed under the terms of the CeCILL license. The french CeCILL license allows the software to be used under the terms of the GNU GPLv3. Or Vezer Or an open source one Chataigne. Have lots of fun !!!!

jtsteph

@armando Thanks for this. Ossia and Chataigne are really wild and overlap with a lot of what I am doing in Isadora currently - using it to control other things. I could see Ossia as an amazing tool for procedural video creation. It also integrates PD, which is interesting - what an amazing rabbit hole!

Vezer looks simpler and very useful but is also mac-only.

Armando

@jtsteph You are welcome. With these tools I think you are probably set. Please tell us

mark_m

@kdobbe @Woland

Just referring you all to this thread where I requested something very similar, which met with broad support from a number of our Isadora 'power' users:

https://community.troikatronix...

DillTheKraut

@jtsteph said:

Davinci Resolve'

Maybe this old thread of mine could help to start on something. Back then I worked with Premiere EDL exports to interprete them as timecode triggers. I'm not familiar with Davinci, but maybe there is some way to transform the script to work with similar files from it (I found some youtube videos which claim to describe the export of EDLs from Davinci, but I didn't check them out).

I didn't work with this since the project I used it for (I needed to tranfer thousands of surtitle cues). So no guaranty that it still works. But maybe i'ts a starting point.