Well it's safe to say that that's not how Stage Setup is supposed to be used. The intended workflow would be to be to place the content in the desired place at the desired size (e.g. using the Matte++ actor with the 'scale fg' input set to 'off', the Zoomer actor, or a Projector actor inside a User Actor with specific 'horz pos', 'vert pos', and 'zoom' settings so you can use it in all your Scenes.)
A workaround would be to put a Crop actor just before your Projector actor and try chopping off the very outside pixel of the content so that last pixel doesn't get stretched across your display.
Hi all,
I've been running into an issue that maybe there is a known workaround for? If I create a stage that is smaller than a connected physical display, and then use the stage setup window to place the stage at some location within the display, there is a problem: Instead of just displaying black on the portion of the display that is beyond the edge of the stage, isadora stretches or smears the last pixel from the edge of the stage across the unused area of the display. If that pixel is not black, some color from the edge of the video or image ends up filling in all the area that should be blank.
Is there a way to prevent this behavior without having to map the entire larger resolution of the full display and use izzymap or other tools to place the content within it?
Isadora 4.1.3, Mac OS 15.6.1
@woland said:
Unfortunately there's not a way to natively create video files using the hap codecs in Isadora.
Just to be more specific, this is not possible on macOS, but you can create Hap video exports on Windows using the AVI Movie container. It works reasonably well compared to other more cpu heavy codecs. Resolution will be a bottle neck if you need FHD+
There's still some spots left in case anyone else still wants to join us on Wednesday :-)
@artoo said:
record a stage in hap alpha codec
I've already got this logged as a feature request though.
Unfortunately there's not a way to natively create video files using the hap codecs in Isadora.
Just popping in here to say how much I love this. I teach a module to the second year BA Circus students at Circomedia in Bristol. I show them stuff, and we experiment about how you can combine circus and 'digital'. Just prepping for tomorrow's class on "live cinema" and will be showing them this as well some Katie Mitchell. This is great stuff! Must have been so fun to plan and create!
(Is Pete Brooks still teaching on that course?)
Mark (not that one! This one lives in London!)