Hmm seems to be a bug. For now, I'd suggest just swapping left and right body parts for whatever it is that you want to control.
@bonemap you can use any video editor. If you have the multi channel audio you can use shutter encoder to add it to or replace the audio on an existing movie (must be exactly the same length). If you need to do it for an avi virtual dub will do it. You will generally need to start with a 6 channel wav file for 5.1.
You are right the multichannel audio capabilities on the movie player are lacking. You can play multi channel audio fine though and although you cannot route on the fly you can change the channel order in your audio setup on your computer. Alternatively most modern sound cards will let you do routing and some like RME will let you control the routing with osc or midi.
If you need to route multi channel audio inside and SDI signal it’s pretty common to use an SDI audio embedder. This lets you combine the outputs from an audio mixer with the output of a video system and have control over line delays and channel order.
Thanks for the tip. I am actually in the middle of doing some in-depth multichannel audio tests in Isadora. I think it is fairly well understood that the MoviePlayer multichannel audio and audio routing is an unfinished project.
Some of the big issues are that the i/o controls for multichannel audio are still accessible ports of the MoviePlayer module however they are inconsistent and dysfunctional and not integrated into the most recent audio capability of Isadora.
The Sound Player actor on the other hand has great multichannel control and options.
Out of interest, what software would you suggest for encoding multitrack audio into a video file that is not surround sound?
Best wishes
Russell
@bonemap try the same with discrete tracks. Encoded 5.1 should play but likely not be route able in Isadora. It’s a different kind of data stream.
If you need to route 5.1 with encoded audio to different outputs then you can try do it with the surround setup in osx.
Encoded as 5.1 rather than 6 tracks. I would have to have another look but probably 5.1 dts. It is rather difficult to find any software that will compile multiple audio into a multichannel video file unless it is surround sound. If you have any suggestions for this (besides QT7 which I don’t think is viable anymore).
Best wishes
Russell
@bonemap when you say 5.1 encoded audio, is it just a video file with 6 discrete audio tracks? Or is it an encoded format like Dolby or dts?
I just looked at an issue with a BlackMagic device (Video Assist 12G) tethered to my computer with HDMI. I could send 5.1 encoded audio directly from the Movie Player module in Isadora to the BMD VA12G recorder via HDMI (labelled BMD HDMI), and it showed all six channels active through the device's VU meters. However, trying to monitor or separate the six channels as a mix with the Movie Player was a disaster. I think the multichannel routing capability of the Movie Player is currently dysfunctional. Unless someone can shed some light on this?
Best Wishes
Russell
Hallo there,
iam working on a macbook with a Kinect 1 and Isadora. My college works on a Windows System with a Kinect 2.0.
In my "Skeleton Decoder" i chose to track the right hand, but when i face the kinect it reacts to my left instead my right hand. I tried different Body parts, if i put left arm, it reatcts to the right, always to the opposite. It seems to be a setting, Mirror on / off just works on the Stage, hmm... Can someone help?
Thanks. Kaju
p.s. If my college does the same on her Windows System it reacts to the right (correct) Hand. She the took my Kinect Cam, works fine. I then used her patch on my system, still the same problem. So must be a Isadora or System setting i guess.
@xlrstik do you see the 8 audio outputs of the Blackmagic converter in your audio midi setup (I am assuming you are on osx).
Aggregate outputs should be transparent to any software once they are configured.
I just like to second this! Coming from party/live visuals, going to commercial and musical productions, but also Opera and fine Art festivals and now at municipal theatre.
I have experience with all of them (disguise, Watchout, Wings, Pandoras, milllumin, Touchdesigner and Resolume (starting with 3.x , back in the days and moving to Izzy shortly after, because of limited layers :P ). Non of them have the combined balance of usability, lerning curve and 'give it to the client's hands' probability, as Isadora does! Call it scalability. The price/needed feature combination is far off anyways.
We now are running Wings successor Pixera and I so often miss the scene functionality and the logic possibiltys, beside alot of other issues :D.
The only real missing functionality, which is holding back the switch, are the frame synced multi server/device distribution and the somewhat oldschool GUI (which is just a psychological issue ;-) ).
For most commercial users, probably is the missing hardware complete system solutions + (official) service.