Hello,

Edit: related to this issue?

I am finding that when I preload a scene that contains a Movie Player actor, the movie file immediately begins to play but with the video hidden (e.g. I can hear the audio begin playing, but nothing is sent to the projector), even though the scene has not yet been activated. When I subsequently activate the preloaded scene: (1) the video becomes visible on the stage, and the audio continues in sync with the video; and (2) I can see that the position output parameter of the Movie Player is not zero (e.g. it began playing when I preloaded the scene earlier, not when I just activated the scene).

This is happening only on my Windows laptop. It works as it should on my old Mac laptop (quite old version of Isadora). I don't remember this happening before I just updated to Isadora 4.5.1.

This happens on my Windows laptop even when I create a new, blank Isadora document and add the following three actors:

Scene 1:
[Preload Scene] actor 

Scene 2:
[Movie Player] -> [Projector]

The only workaround I can find is to not preload scenes, but this is a problem for my application which requires intricate cueing.

Isadora 4.5.1, Windows 11, Intel i7-13700H. H264 file with stereo audio track.

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

Jonathan.

@jrhooker

Try putting another camera (any camera) up on the same pipe to see if it has a bouncy image as well.

What is upstairs from you? If it's something like heavy machinery or a dance studio, that could make your ceiling shake.

Hi all, 

I'm making a show and trying to use one singular PTZ camera. It's a Cinetreak PT20. This is my first time using one. Right now I'm just in my studio and I've hung it from a pipe and the image seems to be really...bouncy. Like it actually shakes. And it's not after it PTZ's...just stationary. No one else is in the room and I **barely** move when I'm programming (lol). Has anybody experienced this behaivor. I thought it was maybe some kind of setting that was creating an optical illusion of bounce...wrong hz or something, but everything seems right. This is sort of shot in the dark...but it's bouncy to the point of distraction (for me at least). I even bought a piece of hardware that was supposed to absorb vibration, but that made it even worse. I'm sort of at a loss and wonder if I just bought a bad camera. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Jake

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