I regularly use Isadora for movie screenings in a tiny pop-up cinema in a shed. There's only room for 4 or 5 viewers, so I can chat to them beforehand and find out whether they want subtitles, and which language would work best for them.

Isadora is perfect for having more control over the subtitles placement. Separate screen is no problem. Last year I staged a performance where the soundtrack was an hour-long 4-track audio file. I used Isadora to display a translation of the spoken text and tweaked it to show the subtitles in different ways throughout the performance.

@Michel any thoughts?

I'm considering using Isadora for a small film screening, and I was wondering if it is possible to use the subtitle track in any interesting ways ie. have it function as a a discreet element separately from the video.

Basically, I'd like to be able to experiment with placing the subtitles (based on an SRT file ideally) on their own screen or at least confine them to an area in the letterboxing to improve clarity and preserve the image. Is that something which is possible in Isadora and what should I take into consideration whilst doing it, based on everyone else's experiences?

and secondarily - is there any reason that I shouldn't be running feature length films through isadora? 
I know that Isadora was originally constructed with dance and theatre in mind, with more of a focus on shorter clips - is there any chance that it will start to behave unexpectedly with larger video files?

@eamon said:

Can you give us a bit more information on your set up too?

@ray As Eamon said, we'd need more information about your hardware.

Also, if you've been submitting crashes via BugSplat with your name and email, you can start a new ticket using the link in my signature to let us know what name and email you used so we can look up and parse your specific crashes.

@charlotte_e said:

I'm trying to avoid too many internal scene triggers, so that each cue is its own scene. Is there an alternative for this?

 The alternative I would suggest is not to break something like this into multiple Scenes. With a Sequential Trigger actor used to start your cues in sequence, it's easy to do what you're describing in a single Scene.

@josafat 

Muy bueno Isma !

Abrazo,

Maxi -RIL

Hi! You can send the video to a virtual stage in the secondary scene you want to activate. In the active main scene, you can use the "Get Stage Image" actor, and this way you can send the video to a Projector Actor using layers. This way, alpha transparency is preserved, and you can arrange the layers as you like.

Best wishes!

I'm trying to have an activated scene be underneath the content in the current scene, instead of being additive or above.

The only options under activate scene are "additive" and "above". I would really love to be able to activate a scene, and then have the new cue content be above. (example, I have a background video happening (activated scene) and then I have a ball rolling on screen in the next scene, and other content in the next scene, where the background video still rolls). There doesn't seem to be a way to do this without the layers being additive. My request is that in the activate scene section, an option could be "below".

I'm trying to avoid too many internal scene triggers, so that each cue is its own scene. Is there an alternative for this?

@eamon No only one.

@michel Thanks Michel for the quick and helpful reply ~ will try.