@Kathmandale 

Yeah, that all makes complete sense. I was over thinking it and you're right, at no point does the 0.02 dropped actually make a difference. Especially with the doc I'm trying to create where frames will probably get rounded down to the nearest second anyway

Thanks for give this some thought for me though!

Do you remember if you ever hit any issues with this macro?

I'm using your worksheet as a base with the macro active I'm creating a sheet with columns for the following

(A) Video Source

(B) Timecode in

(C) Timecode out

(D) Duration

(E) Duration as frames

I'm using the macro to work out the difference between B and C =Num2Time(Time2Num(G2)-Time2Num(F2)) I'm then converting that time duration to frames in column E. 

The on a seperate tab I'm using a SUMIF to collect the values from column E based on the video source in column A, before converting those frame totals back to time. Basically it's intended to add up all of the sources across the piece of content to give me a total from each supplier. 

It all works which is amazing. 

But then if I drag the formulas down the columns or add any, suddenly it all stops working and I get the frustrating #VALUE!  

I'm looking at the formulas in each cell and they're all correct. If I rebuild it all from scratch it starts working again. But if anything is added or dragged again, it stops working. I can't for the life of me see what's changing to throw it out. 

I've not really used macros before. Is there anything fundamental I'm doing which would cause this do you think?

Hi,

I thought there may be some value in sharing this patch with anyone interested in working with Open Access API data in Isadora. There is a lot more that can be done with it and this might start an interesting conversation.

In this demonstration patch the latest images (1-2 days behind) from NASA's Mars Rovers and the DSCVOR spacecraft are intended to be displayed each day that the patch is opened and reopened. The images are made available through Public Access API's and displayed to the stage with a custom (apologies but Mac only!) FreeFrame plugin that is available in this package along with the Isadora patch file: NASA-Open-Access-Example

The FreeFrame plugin is a prototype generated by VUO software and is therefore limited to Mac OS compatibility and appears bloated in file size. Instructions to install the plugin in the Isadora FreeFrame folder are here. And for opening in Mac OS here. This is not ideal and it would be great to have a cross platform and optimised module for displaying URL images in Isadora - feature request here.

The NASA Open Access API info is here: https://api.nasa.gov/

specifically:

The EPIC API provides information on the daily imagery collected by DSCOVR's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument. Uniquely positioned at the Earth-Sun Lagrange point, EPIC provides full disc imagery of the Earth and captures unique perspectives of certain astronomical events such as lunar transits using a 2048x2048 pixel CCD (Charge Coupled Device) detector coupled to a 30-cm aperture Cassegrain telescope.

and 

Mars Rover Photos API is designed to collect image data gathered by NASA's Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers on Mars and make it more easily available to other developers, educators, and citizen scientists. This API is maintained by Chris Cerami.

Each rover has its own set of photos stored in the database, which can be queried separately. There are several possible queries that can be made against the API. Photos are organized by the sol (Martian rotation or day) on which they were taken, counting up from the rover's landing date. A photo taken on Curiosity's 1000th Martian sol exploring Mars, for example, will have a sol attribute of 1000. If instead you prefer to search by the Earth date on which a photo was taken, you can do that too.

The following examples represent additional historical news headlines I have added for my own project. They are from the Guardian API with filters for Science/Mars and Environment. These additional layers have been stripped from the demonstration patch due to the need for a unique authentication key.

The NASA epic camera provides most recent and historic full disk images of the Earth from the DSCOVR spacecraft.

The NASA Mars Rover images provides the most recent and historic images including those from the Perseverance Rover.

Best Wishes
Russell

hi,

I am thinking about a feature request that provides more metadata properties information about items in media bins. It would be useful to have programmatic access to metadata output properties of the various file types associated with media bins. For example when working with automated media bin builds. It might work something like the ‘get’ series of actors e.g. “Get Media File Metadata”. 

There are a number of properties that can be revealed through file metadata for most media types, including creation and modification dates, dimensions, codecs/compression, alpha channel, fps, audio channels, duration e.t.c

Best wishes

Russell

Hi

Bit last minute this one...We need an experienced isadora programmer for a theatre show in London. Daytime and evenings on 23rd/24th/25th August and ideally on some days on w/c 16th August.

Great venue + good support from in house team.

Thanks

Simon

@juriaan thank you!

@DusX 

Hi there,

Could you take a look with us? Perhaps we can convert it / mutate it to text only

Producing virtual theater with Isadora? Now there's no more need to use the Screen Capture actor, croppers, and zoomers to get your talent from Zoom into the media server. With ZoomISO, you can get each participant individually, at full HD quality, via Syphon and NDI, and the app can be fully controlled via OSC. Here's how to get started!

@jfg

Thanks that looks good and simple! And reminds me to refer to the parsing specification more often :)

Best wishes

Russell

Werkstatt 2022 would be wonderful

@bryonc

Have you tried both the CPU and GPU modes? Depending on your system you might have better performance with one or the other.

I am recording this feature request.

thank-you

Wiggle is up on the Add-Ons page now. I'll keep an eye on this thread as well so if anyone would like to suggest changes/improvements I'll update it.

@cacoos

Hi there, sorry for the long delay in answering this post.

And to answer your question, yes Isadora works on MacOS Big Sur.

@cacoos

Hi,

I think the effect you are looking for is the Pixel Sort. You can find some examples in Shadertoy and maybe you can incorporate them through the GLSL actor into Isadora.

Regards.

Javi

Another aspect of UDP/OSC, which I've not seen in the other discriptions, is the easy ability for broadcasting messages.
Instead of sending the OSC command to a specific IP address, one can often use the networks broadcast address.

As for the Broadcast term, it describes the process of broadcasting packets to an entire subnet. (e.g: 192.168.1.001 to 192.168.1.254). As you see, the Address 192.168.1.255 here is spared out. This is the broadcast address of the used subnet. If you put this IP as the OSC recievers address, the messages will be fired to all IP Adresses e.g. devices in the network. This makes it easy to trigger multiple devices, with only one OSC message and therefore in Izzy, only one OSC send actor.

I have a Mac 10.13.6 and Isadora 3.0  I am not getting the full screen when I utilize the window list on the Screen Capture. Any suggestions?

EDIT:  I figured it out, for anyone that may have this issue make sure your window cpu mode is on, it is under the window list

@vjw

if I really understand what you want (I am not sure), your problem is coming from the toggle actor. The init entry is set to off so that by every scene enter it will be active so set the output to off. But as you use the output only as a trigger you get by scene entry a trigger. It is normal. You have to set the init input of the toggle actor to none to have no trigger on changing scene.

But further why do you use so much actors in your fist user actor to get only a trigger. You can use only the keyboard watcher to get the same result. Here an example how I would make your patch:

best

Jean-François 

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@dusx This is amazing and super helpful. Thanks!

@andielloyd thanks a lot !!

Best,

Maxi Wille RIL