Another way is to use the monitor in control panel. Set the ID of the monitor (here 1) to the output of the NDI 5 Watcher. That's it. You can choose the size of the monitor in the control panel as you want. You don't need any extra stage for the preview.

Best regards

Jean-François 

@dusx OK I think I now understand what you are saying. Instead of sending to the main screen, I'm sending stage 2 to a display that's not assigned and then forcing preview of that and it shows on the screen like I want it to. Perfect! Thanks for putting me on the right track - FAS

Here's my workflow (if this helps) -

At intermission I have an intermission slide projected on the cyc.

Kids are logging in to a zoom meeting, and ZoomISO is sending their feeds out via NDI to Izzy.

At the top of the second act we project the kids' phone cameras on to the cyc.

I would like to be able to check to make sure everything is good between zoom and Izzy, plus I need to reset the NDI watchers to the particular feeds. I want to be able to see all this while still projecting the intermission slide on the cyc. So I was hoping to set up an additional stage (or preview) that would not take up the whole monitor on my laptop so I could adjust the NDI watchers as needed in zoom while still seeing the Izzy program window. 

Thanks! FAS

@dusx Sure? I just need it so I can send see what the NDI feed is sending before I project it a few cues later.

When I set stage 2 to force preview and then show stages it still shows the stage 2 full screen with the preview also. I need to just see the preview or a smaller screen on the laptop. I need to be able to see Izzy too. Is there a way to have stage 1 as shown and stage 2 as preview - as far as I can tell it's all screens one or the other, or both full screen and preview if that box is checked in stage setup.

@frank522

Are you looking to have it as a floating window? Because you can set that as a preview window so that when you go full screen with your primary stage that the preview remains a floating window at your designated size.

Sorry - me again. I'm trying to set up a small preview screen on my main monitor so I can make sure I'm getting an NDI feed that I need later in the scene. I want to project that onto a smaller screen on my main monitor, the one that is running Isadora. I set up stage 2 to be on my main monitor and set the size to 680x480. The screen set up looks correct. But when I show stages stage 2 is the full monitor, not 680x480. What am I missing? Thanks! 

Frank Schneider

Latin School of Chicago

Izzy 4.5.1

MacBook Air 26.7.1

OK, lesson learned - it was a corrupt file at 

/Users/theatre/Library/HTTPStorages/com.troikatronix.isadora

When IT uninstalled and reinstalled Izzy it works on 26.7.1. Live and learn. Thanks all! FAS

Update - IT has a laptop running 27.0 and it works. So they are doing some uninstall/reinstall Isadora and if that doesn't solve the problem they will update the booth laptop to 27.0 and see if that solves the issue. Thanks for your help - FAS

@dbini Nope and nope. Thanks for the suggestions. I had already tried adding sources and seeing if they could "see' the camlink. And I tried going into a hub this morning and still nothing. I can see the camlink in the system report, and in QuickTime, but not in Izzy. And yes, I do quit system profile and QuickTime after I check them. And I try Izzy first, so neither of them is hogging it. 

Apple seems to have broken something that Izzy uses when updating to 26.7.1. I'm open to other ideas...

My IT people will backdate the laptop, but that involves wiping the whole hard drive, and since I've done heavy customization that's not something I'm looking forward to. Thanks! FAS

Hello Frank, I have 2 suggestions:
1, open Live Capture Settings menu and check that only channel 1 video input is active. If channel 2, 3 or 4 has a tick next to it, and Elgato is the default device for one of these channels, then it won't show up in the list for channel 1. (I lost my facetime camera for 6 months when I didn't realise this)
2, try adding the Elgato through a USB hub. I had trouble connecting to mine the other day when it was plugged directly into the mac.