@thatmattrogers

What you did is probably how I would do it.

Could you please send in a ticket using the link in my signature with a screen recording where you show Stage Setup and more clearly narrate and show the roadblock you're hitting within the keystoning? I get the general idea, but I want to understand more precisely so that I can accurately log this as a feature request.

Ok I was working on a project last week and a problem came up that required a "creative workaround" but I'm wondering if there is another way that I hadn't understood. 

Here's the situation. 

I had a very large projection surface that had a 3 dimensionality to it (it was made of large triangles in a pleasing low poly landscape kind of way)

I'd rigged 4 projectors to cover the whole screen.

2 downstage that covered the upper half

2 upstage to cover the lower half. 

The 2 upstage projectors were at a steep angle so that performers could get close to the screen without casting a shadow.

It seems like the blend maker in stage set-up cannot handle this orientation. I could not get everything to line up properly with each other no matter what I did. 

I need the keystoning of the upstage projector to go a little beyond the bounds of what would actually be projected. Blend maker can't do this 

So in the end I made a user actor which had a bunch of projector actors in it that mapped each of the 59 triangles that make up the wall to the most convenient projector. 

But it's there a better way?

Hi

I am just chiming in with my 2cents. I have been in this position and trying to sync video with external audio. There was no real way to do this nicely as the audio will stutter etc.

Upon asking here about 6 years ago, I followed the advice and edited the video(s) together so it is just one "super" video. 

Easiest way to do it even if it requires setting aside some editing time. Your edit is not a big ask and it is the simplest way out of your issue. 

Kinda the only way to ensure sync tbh.

Eamon

@gpeddino

In my humble opinion, I would avoid any sync problem and make a video with the new soundtrak.

The free Shutter Encoder have a fonction to replace the soundtrack without recompressing image.

You can even have a movie with the two selectable tracks.

Jacques

@gpeddino said:

Is there any "audio player" actor that can also be operated with timecode, so that I can do both simultaneously

To the best of my memory, if you change the position input of a Sound Player or Movie Player actor to "scrub" it (which is what you'd be doing continuously if using a Movie Player in timecode mode to lock a movie to external timecode) it won't cause the actor to output audio because the file isn't actually playing, it's just being told to move the playhead to a different position in the media file.

You could use a Timecode Comparator to trigger the 'play' input of a Sound Player actor at a specific time, but as far as I'm aware we don't yet have a way to lock audio playback to external timecode.

@gpeddino maybe just a video with the audio in it -> play with the movie player and just use the audio 

I want to project a movie file but I have a different audio file (with the exact same duration) that I want to use as its soundtrack instead. I'm receiving external timecode and using it to control the movie player actor.

Is there any "audio player" actor that can also be operated with timecode, so that I can do both simultaneously? I'd rather not have to edit the movie file with the new audio.

@ril said:

- Have you noticed (or at least in my case) that if you draw quickly and furiously, certain glitches appear, like sharp lines that break or interrupt the stroke?

 Yes, we're aware of that

@woland Thanks a lot...your work around solve it !!

I'd like to take this opportunity to mention two more situations:

- Have you noticed (or at least in my case) that if you draw quickly and furiously, certain glitches appear, like sharp lines that break or interrupt the stroke?

- And the other thing: sometimes, with the same super-fast stroke intent, the pointer enlarges as if zoomed in (maybe it's a Mac system issue?)
Thanks, Lucas.

@ril

Thanks for this report. I've been hunting this bug for a while but couldn't get a solid repro until I got some clues from your post. I've just logged five different ways to cause this issue so that we'll be able to fix it when we have time.

In the meantime, my testing showed that, once you've hit Output > Show Stages, a reliable way to get the cursor to disappear and never reappear is to left-click and then move the cursor. In all five cases, once I did that, the cursor would not re-appear unless I did Output > Hide Stages then Output > Show Stages again.