Hi,

Recently a show i made many years ago started touring again. I made the patch in Isadora 2 and it took me some time to go over the file and make sure everything works in the newer version.

While I was doing this I was wondering, "How do other people tackle this challenge":

On a technical level:

• Are there ways to know what might brake when upgrading?
• There was a plugin that wouldn't work anymore so i had to replace it but it took me a long time to find every scene where the plugin was used (in a user actor that was inside an other user actor). Is there a way to find them all. 
               I deleted scenes, saved, and restarted until i didn't get the missing plugin popup on startup so i know the scenes they where in.

But also on an artistic level

• Some scenes I really didn't like anymore, should I change them and make them how I would make it now or leave it as it is because that was how the show looked like in the past. 

I'm very curious to hear your thoughts. 

With kind regards
GertjanB

@dusx said:

msg:string={00-FF}

 Thnx, that works! Now i can cut the last part of it. And  compare it! So different tag's will do different things!

Also tried to use: 'value1 : string =  EOL' in serial in watcher - binary. It gives me some text output. But different with the msg len set on 4 or 8!

@jfg

If it's any consolation, it's the same issue in Windows.
I have posted about this before, ad nauseum

I get crazy with the way Isadora manage displays. Why is the order reverse from the order in system prefs? 

BenQ PJ (1), BenQ PJ (2), BenQ PJ (3), Built-in  in System

BenQ PJ (3), BenQ PJ (2), BenQ PJ (1), Built-in in Isadora

Why it is not possible to get the built-in screen as the last one (here #4) so that the numbers in Isadora match to the logical screen in this case BenQ PJ (1) as #1 and not as #2. 

and I'm not talking about the fact that although I plugged the projectors in from left to right (as described by @Fred) the first projector is now in the centre. But maybe that's down to Apple. I can't say now.

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

@landschrap

Try with the 'Serial In Watcher - Text' (it looks like you're receiving text), and set the parsing pattern to 'msg:string={00-FF}' without the single quotes.
This should output the entire string you are receiving.

Hi there,

I'm trying to connect an RFID reader to Isadora. ANd the thing i want to get in isadora is the different NUID of an Tag.

So I have connected an RC522 by the serial port to isadora, and i can see there is an connection.

The only thing i can get really good in Isadora is the iD of the tags. Some have the same number.

On the picture bellow you see the input by serial in watcher binary. Both actors gave an value.

But how can is get the same information as i can see in the serial monitor? 

23 is the first number en 14 is the last number .

How can i change the serial in watcher. Now i have set it to: value1 : integer =  EOL or to value1 : integer =  4 digits

@jonathan

Same problem with RME Digiface USB. Only the first 8 of the Digiface's 32 outputs are accessible by Isadora. Mac OS Audio MIDI Setup groups the Digiface and Fireface UC inputs/outputs into streams of 8 channels. I wonder if Isadora can only work with a single stream, and hence only 8 input/output channels, despite more streams being available?

Jonathan.

@joshuawg

These systems shouldn't have changed between Isadora 3 and Isadora 4.

The first thing I would look at is drive health. 

Please open a support ticket and I can see if I can reproduce the issue with your help.

Re: [Capture Camera to Movie Issues in Windows](/topic/6100/capture-camera-to-movie-issues-in-windows)

Hey everyone. Looks like I'm having this issue now, but on a mac and with the new Izzy 4. The movies generated from a Capture Camera to movie actor are sometimes unpredictably jumpy and abbreviated. 

Of course in my patch I am often using "record stage to movie" and "capture camera to movie" actors simultaneously. However I don't remember it being quite as unreliable when I previously ran this program in 3 last fall. I keep trying to ease the load of the scene to see if that helps, or change codecs as originally suggested in the previous thread, but nothing seems to work. Sometimes the movies don't even capture at all. 

Wondering if anyone has had a similar problems or maybe some foundational info I've been missing. Happy to send files, but they are pretty contrived. This is the live 3D movie I shoot. 

J

Hi everyone! I'm trying out my new MacBook Pro M3 Pro Sonoma

Playing with the speed of the movie player in interactive mode I find that it doesn't play an mp3 audio file smoothly compared to my old MacBook Pro 2015 which has the possibility of using the Quick Time playback engine.
Is there any way to improve this? any settings? maybe a specific codec?
Thanks a lot
Maxi