@simon100

As Woland mentioned, you can accomplish this in Javascript.
You likely want to build a 2D array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) such that the Array is made of short arrays that contain the Value & the Position.. So you might have [50.33,2] where 50.33 is the max volume, and 2 the position it is in.

So your array may look like this (if it has 5 positions) [[50.33,1],[20,2],[10,3],[15,4],[30,5]]

You could then use the Array Sort feature on this array (https://www.w3schools.com/js/j...) to sort by the Volume level (first value in each sub-array).

This could give you this array: [[50.33,1],[30,5],[20,2],[15,4],[10,3]]

See how the value levels are now in descending order: 50.33, 30, 20, 15, 10

In this way, you can determine that the highest value came from output position 1, and the second highest volume came from output position 5

Hopefully that gets you started.

@craigw

Try using another 'Display Refresh' setting in the General Tab of the Isadora preferences. ( I would be interested in knowing what setting you currently have)

Regarding Wolands' examples, it is true Isadora has a Preload Scene actor, but it is a legacy actor and isn't recommended in Isadora 3 except in very specific cases.
Please read https://support.troikatronix.c... to understand the usage of the Preload actor.

@k_lab

Ah, in that case, you can still use what I've built with the clock, just use the User Actor to start the Movie Player (without audio) and also to start a Sound Player (which will have your audio and do the multi-channel audio routing).

Locking the restart of both to a clock will prevent drift from increasing over time.

@erin

Hi Erin,

Yes totally Mac Mini with a M1 or M2 chip can run Isadora 3.x

What I normally do is either use Sidecar or use a product called "Luna Display" which allows you to just plug in a transmitter in one of your thunderbolt ports.
This will then transmit your Main display thru that transmitter to a iPad / secondary screen.

@skulpture, @dbini, @Woland, thank you so much! I will experiment with all of this.

With gratitude,
e.

@elena,

@RIL suggestion may be perfect and useful for you. You can also look at editing your script/captions in an external file and then reading in the file directly - that way any updates can be tracked as a line number.

Check out the add-on for reading a file into Isadora here: https://troikatronix.com/add-o...

Alternatively, the possibility of doing the same with the 'Data Array' actor is not overly complicated - see example patch attached:

read-a-line-patch.zip

Best Wishes

Russell

@timeg said:

After yesterdays announcement from Ultraleap of the new Leap Motion 2 and forthcoming support once again (due in July I believe), it would seem there is a new path forward.

 Yes, it's very exciting. I can't confirm yet whether or not we'll support the Leap Motion 2, but I sincerely hope we have the time to add this feature.

@alice

What a clever solution! Nice job :)

@juriaan said:

From there on out I would avoid WDMX as the plague, try to use cable as much as possible, if that is not possible then use this product since it is the most solid for this type of environment.

Don't disagree completely and I would definitely avoid all of the rip-off brands, but this one is solid. It's what's built into the newest ETC lighting fixtures:

Multiverse® Wireless DMX/RDM (citytheatrical.com)

Cheers,

Hugh

@juriaan

Got it. Thanks.

@jandraka

Hello, I understood my mistake : it was in the node name, I selected Christie instead of leaving it blank.

now it works.

Isadora is the best , One more time.

@mrkrstoffa

How did things go?

@hiroko_tanahashi

Here's how to do multichannel audio routing with the Sound Player: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000084953-tutorial-getting-started-with-multi-channel-audio-in-isadora

Currently, this functionality does not exist in the Movie Player actor (it is a planned addition for the future but right now we're busy with IzzyCast). That being said, it is possible on macOS to use Isadora's Move Player actor with multichannel video files that have been set up in a specific way: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000069104-playing-movies-with-multichannel-audio-on-macos

Best wishes,

Woland

@dako-ark

We'll need more information in order to help. Could you please provide the file you are using and a more detailed description of the issue or a screen recording of the issue?

An example of why we need more information: The term "patch" can refer to a single Scene or an entire Isadora file so I can't tell which of the three following things you've tried to do:

Paste an entire Isadora file into a User Actor/Macro somehow --> I don't even know how I'd even begin to go about attempting this in  a single cut-and-paste action if there were multiple Scenes.Select a Scene in the Scene List, cut it, then try to paste the Scene into a User Actor/Macro --> This wouldn't work either. You'd need to click in the Scene Editor for a Scene, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select everything, cut it, then go inside a User Actor/Macro and paste it.Click in the Scene Editor for a Scene, press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select everything, cut it, then go inside a User Actor/Macro and paste it. --> This would work, but depending on what you're trying to paste, it may not immediately show on the Stage Output (for example, if you set the intensity of the Projector actor to initialize at 0, (so you could fade it up as a programmed cue), when you pasted the Projector into the User Actor/Macro the intensity would be '0', so you wouldn't see anything on the Stage until you performed the fade up.

Best wishes,

Woland

Hello @roberto2022,

you can sync two instances on different computers over OSC.

General OSC handling: Guru Session OSC

The simple version would just trigger once (maybe every scene).

Advanced would be a near frame sync. @Michel once offered a syncing user actor. It is made with Version 2. but you can use it as a how to. Instead of connecting the player directly, you would connect them over OSC.

If it is meant for hot backup running parallel, I usualy biuld a 'deadman switch'.
 A puls is send every other second, resetting counter at the remote computer. If the connection is lost, the counter won't be reset and trigger something to take over the session automaticaly.

Thanks !

I will try !

best

@mr_j said:

i'd be keen to beta test the Pythoner plugin on my 2013 mbp running macos sierra

 Feel free to send in a ticket using the link in my signature. It'd be the easiest way to send keystrokes using Isadora.

@dylan_law1

Are both PCs?
If so, have you run ipconfig in Command Prompt to see the addresses of your network cards?
Sometimes Isadora can in rare cases report the wrong IP if your system has multiple network interfaces.

I always install Isadora on both machines, as I find it easier to debug/test communications between Isadora instances. Once Isadora to Isadora is ironed out, is easy enough to get the other tool seeing the data.

@demetri79

First, let me say Isadora is not supported on Hackintosh, so we won't be able to help you if you run into issues.

With that said, the primary multi-threading in Isadora 2 comes via the Movie Playback systems (Isadora 3 added additional multi-threading in the User Interface). So codec decompression etc can utilize multi-threads very efficiently. The scene patching is run in a single thread, so this can be a bottleneck for very complete patches, and/or patches using heavy CPU based video processing. I find modern CPUs offer plenty of threads for media playback, I don't think you will gain much from a massively multi-threaded CPU, but the clock speed will have a direct effect. Personally, I would go for the faster single core base clock speed.

Given that you say you are using old CPU based Freeframes, you will be limited by the CPU clock speed.

@ayushi

sure, but you're going to need some hardware if you want to generate it live. a depth camera such as Kinect or Orbec Astra or Realsense will give you a human shape that can then be processed with the QC ASCII Art actor (if you use Mac) or a GLSL Shader like this: https://www.shadertoy.com/view...to produce something similar to that effect.
The term Projection Mapping, however, tends to refer to something else, unless you are aiming to map the image onto a moving body - which presents an additional set of challenges.