@woland Ah, thanks for this! Sorry I hadn't seen that you had replied before now. I'll give this a go and see how I get on!

Hi Everyone, 

If you live in Quebec City consider joining us (Myself and Hugh Conacher) for our shows at Mois Multi - Festival international d’arts multidisciplinaires et électroniques!

February 12 and 13th:  https://moismulti.org/programm...

Here is the trailer:

We will be in Montreal afterwards from Feb 14th to 21st if there are any Isadora related events of performance with tech folks who would like to connect - reach out!

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Frea

@jfg said:

You need the absolute value to switch between 0 and 1. Without it will switch between -2/+2

 You can also go into the property inspector and change the min and max of the 'speed' input from -2 to 2 > 0 to 1. Then you can connect a Toggle to it directly.

@jfg said:

<p>The better way if you want to use the letters key in another order than the alphabetical order is to use the lookup actor. It will output 1,2,3,4… for the value you give in the input.</p>

 I learn something new every day!

The better way if you want to use the letters key in another order than the alphabetical order is to use the lookup actor. It will output 1,2,3,4… for the value you give in the input.

it is what you are looking for?

players-for-one-scene.izz

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

@tarox said:

Now I have the problem that all videos start at the beginning of the scene and I don't know where to switch this off...

Now I have the problem that all videos start at the beginning of the scene and I don't know where to switch this off...

 If I correctly understand what you're looking for, you may use the speed input instead of the visible input. The on/off of the visible input starts always at the beginning of the clip (play/stop). With the speed input, it works like play/pause, and if you hit the key later, it will start at the position you stopped it.

You need the absolute value to switch between 0 and 1. Without it will switch between -2/+2

@tarox

Check out my comment here for some cueing examples: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/9061/answered-reverse-cue-sheet/3?_=1770373876276

If the goal is to trigger the videos in a set order, I think your best bet will be connecting the output of a Keyboard Watcher actor to the input of a Sequential Trigger actor, then connecting each of the Sequential Trigger actor's outputs to a different Movie Player actor's 'visible' input. That'll let you hit the same key one at a time and trigger the videos in sequence.

You'll also need to initialize the 'visible' input of each Movie Player actor as 'off'. 

You can learn about initializing values from our YouTube tutorial on initializing values in Isadora.

If you want to trigger the videos in an order that's not set in stone, you could initialize the 'visible' input of each Movie Player actor as 'off' with a separate Keyboard Watcher actor connected to the 'visible' input of each Movie Player actor. (You'll want to set the Keyboard Watchers for the different pairs of Keyboard Watcher+Movie Player actors to a different key so each video has a different key that triggers it). If you want to be able to turn them on and off with the same key, you can put a Toggle actor between each Keyboard Watcher actor and Movie Player actor.

@bootzilla

Here's an old .dmg from one of my computers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MHFYkEOJcO5TEevw7Bi2KSuKR8m54iTG/view?usp=sharing

I'm not sure that it was ever updated to run on Apple Silicon computers, so even after you download it, you'd have to try running it in Rosetta Mode and hope that it works.

Best of luck to you :)

@tarox

Additionally, taking a look at the timing logic from this example file of mine might be helpful for understanding more about how to do this kind of thing: https://troikatronix.com/add-ons/random-media-random-duration/