I'm looking for a device that I can hold in my hand wirelessly and have it's position be tracked across a screen (ideally three displays). This device would act like a mouse that can be visibly seen and click on items on the screen. Are there any devices I should look at? Or controllers I can use to make my own and 3D print a case for?

Thanks in advance.

@notdoc

Here is a workaround, as this function no longer works in Movie Player since Quicktime X. You must have Blackhole (or similar) installed, and if your Movie Player does not show "Audio Device", click on the eye to the left of Actor name and activate this input. 

Then select "Blackhole" as shown in the picture and you can adjust Pan and Volume in the AUMixer.

Best regards, 

Jean-François 

@skuven 

thanks for quick response, but i don't want to do that, as i am working with multiple video files often at quite short notice, so additional processing is not desirable for the workflow.

the sound actor pan works fine for me,  but I really want to pan movie file audio within Isadora 

@notdoc why are you specifically wanting to use the video player for audio? Maybe convert the video to a .wav file and use the audio player instead - there may be more useful features on that?

You could then still sync the playstart of both the sound and video player actors?

Let me know how you get on!

 i would like to be able to pan movie file output audio within Isadora, but whatever i do the 'pan' is greyed out. 

my movie files have 2-channel stereo audio, which i am able to distinguish clearly in external output.

tried with multiple output sources, if i play around too long Isadora crashes

no project to show, just trying with a movie player in a freshly opened project

ventura 13.7.2 on M1 Max '21

@jfg Thank you! That worked!

@dusx Hey Ryan, thank you for getting back to me. Yes, my current set up is as my signature.

Simon

@kfriedberg said:

In the NVIDIA Control Panel there's a setting for power management, which I set it to prefer maximum performance and rebooted.

 Interestingly, I took another look, and the performance management utilities on my Lenovo Legion, automatically switches this based on my mode. So 'game' mode which I use for shows sets this to maximum.

@paz

Have you dont any recent updates to your system? Are your system stats in your forum signature still correct?
(Mac Studio M1 Max 32GB, 512GB SSD, macOS 26.3 | MacBook Pro M2 Pro 16GB, 512GB SSD, macOS 26.3 / Izzy v4.1.3)

Let's get some closure on this a year later.  I went back to test adding layers and since Windows has updated, graphics drivers have updated and of course Isadora has updated I wasn't getting the same numbers.  But relatively, using the RTX was still quite a bit higher than using the Intel GPU when looking at Isadora's load stat.  Although DusX was right, adding more layers and effects added less load on the RTX above its base.  On the other hand, the mystery was about Isadora's ability to run a show and keep up FPS in a given config so I'm still concentrating on that load meter.

So still unexpected swingy numbers.  That is, until I found one setting I'd somehow missed this whole time.  In the NVIDIA Control Panel there's a setting for power management, which I set it to prefer maximum performance and rebooted.

Suddenly the test show wouldn't break the 8% barrier on RTX, within a percentage point or two of what Intel is showing now.  The setting had different options on some other computers I looked at, but its equivalent was present and did give me lower and stable load.  So problem solved, missing one setting can make things weird.

Also, the show I was given to test is sort of a mess.  Different file formats, codecs, sizes and frame rates getting mixed sure didn't help things.