@charlotte_e said:

virtual stage in the background and then get stage image and put a mask on it from there

 This sounds like a smart way to extend your video pipeline. Or create a User Actor that is inserted before the projector in the scene and allows you to add an alpha channel. You could use listener broadcasters to insert any alpha you like from any other scene in that way.

@rwillats

another option is Pipo Interfaces (https://pipointerfaces.com/) the Pipo Analog is a device that you can use to connect 8 physical buttons that will send MIDI or OSC over WiFi into Isadora, so your switches could be distributed around the haunted house and all wired into the Pipo. Its not as cheap as Arduino, but I find its much easier to use.

@rwillats You could explore Arduino. A wireless Arduino board plus a light or pressure sensor could be used to trigger Isadora when change in a particular room is detected.

Isadora talks well with Arduino 😊

@reload2024 Hello! Pause Engine from Isadora’s menu bar is an alternative option to Blind Mode. Hope that helps!

@reload2024

try Blind mode. you'll find it at the top of the Scenes menu. it keeps the current scene active, but enables editing in other scenes.

@charlotte_e
Broadcaster and Listener will send data/video between scenes that are active.

Is it possible to add alpha masks to active scenes? I have a video running (in an activated scene) and I want to change the alpha mask a couple times. I could sent it to a virtual stage in the background and then get stage image and put a mask on it from there, but is there an easier way?

Hey there,

Looking for ideas for the cheapest options for hardware that can be an external trigger for cues in Isadora.

For more context, this project functions like a haunted house with lots of projectors in lots of spaces. I've been asked to explore solutions where actors can trigger some cues themselves from hardware inside the rooms. This probably means that something wireless is best (while the computers are far away, the network is strong). 

I don't know if something like those wireless page turners are best? Anyone have experience with something like this before?

Best,

Rory

I put an enterscene + timer + comparator + Jump++ on my first scene and I guess I made a settings error because it skips to scene 2 immediately whenever I go to the scene, and i can't get into scene 1 to fix it. I tried reloading the program and everything but it zips to scene 2.  Then I paused the engine Output->Pause Engine, but in that mode you can't change scenes so I can't get to scene 1.

How do I fix this?  Need to run a show tonight hopefully someone can give me a quick fix out of this trap.

We didn't make any changes to this as far as I am aware that would affect the ability to copy and paste between two patches that are open in the same version of Isadora. The closest thing I can find to a change is from the release notes of Isadora 4.0.0 that says:

"NEW: Run Multiple Instances of Isadora on Windows
You can now run multiple instances of Isadora on Windows! (This was already possible on macOS.)"

@gaspar said:

On Isadora 3 I could open two instances and copy parts of older patches into my new ones, or even copy whole scenes. At least in my case I'm unable to do so on Isadora 4. I'm running Isadora on two different systems: One on windows 10 and the other on windows 11. None of them allow copying between patches.

Try opening two files within the same instance.

Also, to copy between two instances of Isadora, they'd have to be the same version of Isadora. (So if one instance is Isadora 4.0.0 and one instance is 4.1.3 that won't work, but both being Isadora 4.0.0 or both being 4.1.3 would work.)