Hi, it's been a minute since I have used IZZY, but I was curious about the DMX workflows. Now that we're in Izzy 4 (last time I used Izzy it was somewhere still in a 3 variant), what are the current best practices for sending and receiving DMX? I am mostly concerned about Art-Net and sACN because I never use ENTEC or USB DMX on my shows. I am interested in receiving cueing and show control data from an sACN source and doing projector dimming via Art-Net. Do you separate these out into indiviual VLANs on the machine? Do I have to do DMX over a single VLAN?

@wjmackwood

Hi,

I have tested SurgeXT extensively in Isadora. however, I used OSC communication to programmatically control presets and other parameters. Of all the VST’s I looked at during the testing phase Surge XT stood out because of the functionality of accessing preset effects lists through accessible communication protocols inside Isadora.

Best wishes

Russell

I'm impressed! Congratulations for the really cool implementation of audio actors, i am looking forward to working with them in my next project!

Gunther

@woland  De acuerdo! Muchas gracias!

@jaio

You can, but make sure that your display shows up with arefresh rate of at least 60Hz, otherwise there's no reason to go above 30Hz.

Muchas gracias @Woland por toda la información.

Tengo otra duda, acerca de la configuración de Preferencias de Isadora según mis videos a 60Hz:

¿Debería poner a 60Hz el Target Frame Rate y el Timecode Rate for new Files en el User interface?

Un saludo

@dusx Thanks for clearing this out. It would be nice though to have a fourth "Reset" button in the screen above.

@wjmackwood said:

Surge XT

 I can't say I have much experience with Surge XT so I might be missing something, but have you setup your Midi in and out normally under the Isadora communications/Midi Setup dialog, and ensured the midi in port of the VST actor is set to match?

@eight here at our university we use the Hollyland Mars 4K for Kameras: https://www.hollyland.com/product/mars-4k
They are cheaper than Teradek but they have a delay, they say 60ms on the website but its rather 70ms.

Best Michel

@eight

Interesting. My experience here in the UK is that venues are increasingly running everything over ethernet, hard wired into the building. Video, audio and control are plugged into RJ45 or Ethercon patch panels, rather than old school analogue ones. I've not come across anywhere that does wireless HDMI. Frankly, I'd be wary of doing that in a professional setting. 

With the Teredek Bolt you're attaching a pretty expensive bit of kit to each end of the projection chain, and each end has to be powered too.

The alternative is to make the cable management less fragile... What about a solution where your computer outputs to an HDMI to ethernet adaptor, and you connect via etherCon and heavy duty ethernet cable? The cable is robust, and cheap, and ethercon protects the RJ45 connector well. And it's a fraction of the cost of Teredek's equipment. But maybe your multimedia lab is very well endowed with lots of money! Not something which happens here.

Extron make robust and affordable HDMI extenders where you only need to power one end.

If your projectors have HDbaseT inputs, then even better, you only need a device at the computer end. Some HDMI to HDbaseT devices will also transmit LAN information, so you can control the projector via LAN...

Just thinking out loud really...