@Skulpture 

Nice - seeing this post I actually just added it to this semester's upcoming syllabi!

@jjhp3 there is this https://genkiinstruments.com/p... and https://www.bonnersmusic.co.uk...

How did it work out?

I have used multiple blackmagic capture devices before - although not identical ones

these little guys are useful, connects via usb-c/thunderbolt: https://www.blackmagicdesign.c...

depends how many ports the macbook has. if its a new macbook pro you have 4 usbc/thunderbolt ports. what I used to use was an old Ultrastudio thunderbolt plus an old Intensity Shuttle USB3 on a 2015 mbp. Never had issues (well... there are always issues, but not in terms of having multiple blackmagic devices). the blackmagic utility is very useful in letting you configure each device separately.

probably too late but hope this helps

mocke

@carlos said:

experience moving their Izzy patches from Mac to PC

 Generally moving between Mac and PC is very easy, however, there are a few things you must be aware of.

Mac has CI actors, AU actors, and Quartz actors. These do not exist on PC
In your case I wonder if you are using audio routing via AU actors inside Isadora?Syphon becomes Spout (some re-patching required to change these actors)3rd party plugins you have used may not be available

I work with Ableton, Isadora, and even some 360 video at times.. I have no issues on PC

Generally any Gaming laptop will serve you well. There are many conversations in the forum about PC laptops.
I suggest being sure the laptop has at least a mini-display port built in. These ports are always built into the dedicated graphics card (not the intel gpu) and offer a lot of extensibility.

This forum post is worth reading: https://community.troikatronix...

@postl There is a set of node-red nodes that will talk to the API, node-red is a free node based programming system, it can output a variety of formats that Isadora can read, easiest is OSC (not included with node-red).

https://flows.nodered.org/node...

Node red is a great tool to do a lot of the little things that Isadora cannot, easy to use and it will run on pretty much anything, so you could run this on a raspberry pi rather than use your computer.

@skulpture

Thank you:) Ill try that tomorrow:)

@liminal_andy

This does the same things as the setting in the nVidia control panel.
I haven't found there to be any functional difference, but I can imagine them conflicting.
Personally, I like the setting being inside the nVidia control panel since this is where I make other power settings/configurations.
It's still unclear to me if one has priority over the other, so I stick to using just one.

@woland Many thanks for quick response! I've submitted a support ticket.

Best wishes, Pazzy

@orozcom

The Adafruit Huzzah is also fine, it can send OSC over the Network to your Show PC. Much easier to setup then Serial communication. Please be aware that you should have a solid isolated network for this types of things. (That can do both 2.4 Ghz as 5Ghz, since micro controllers most speakly on 2.4Ghz)

@woland

HI,

I have an Ultrastudio 4K, with Blackmagic Desktop 11.7 in Catalina. Isadora 3.0.7. All is right.

Best

@tlaloc said:

I got an M1 Mac mini and tried isadora on it with Rosetta 2. Izzy opened right up and snappily even. But so far the movie players only play audio. I am sure you are well aware of this but I just wanted you to have the Info.

Isadora 3 is not yet compatible with Big Sur because Apple just loves making life difficult for us developers. :-(

However, we have a beta that _is_ compatible and working well with Big Sur, and that will likely solve the problem.

If you want to sign up for the beta test program you we can let you try it.

Regardless, you can expect a the Big Sur compatible version to arrive soon into the new year.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@emtv I don't know your set, but often lighting the thing that does not move is easier than lighting the thing that does, so carefully lighting the set with IR and not lighting the stage could be an easier solution. As long as you have good contrast between the set and the actors you can always adjust the image and invert it. I could imagine trying to always light the actors everywhere on stage and not spilling on the set could be more difficult.

@mark

Hi Mark, thank you for the info.

Have a nice weekend,

Hendrik

@bonemap
Thanks a lot Russell for your detailed answer.

The CalDigit TB3 Mini Dock might introduced a glitch in the GPU management, so an OS clean install would tell if the official USB-C > HDMI apple adapter finally works (solo).
Otherwise the issue seems to come from the GPU or the motherboard...

@DillTheKraut, Russell succeeded to send video through OWC Dock and passive adapter, so an active mini-DP adapter is not always necessary.
Other video technicians told me that the official USB-C TB3 > mini-DP TB2 apple adapter works fine with all their TB2 video adapters.

Best wishes.
Clement

@Woland @jhoepffner @Juriaan Thank you all very much for your input - it's much appreciated. I'm back in the theatre tomorrow and will go through the process again! Best wishes Paz

@bonemap bit off topic from GoPro but I have been using the newish pihq camera with c/cs lens mount https://www.raspberrypi.org/pr... with a raspberry pi to make hdmi cameras - very few lines of python code to get full screen hdmi out. There are pros and cons of course - lots of lens options, but fixed focus. Lots of camera options can be fiddled with in code. Not many more lines of code to make a time lapse camera, and very customisable.

@aolis said:

Great that you got this working. I've never even heard of that camera. Cool!

I had difficulty getting any of the tracking features such as body & skeleton.

What is the resolution of the sensor? It has to be 320x240 or 640x480 for the body tracking to work.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@mark said:

Does this mixer allow you to get video into the Live Capture Settings using the Blackmagic driver? Or????

And in Windows it's the same: the ATEM input is seen as a Webcam in Isadora, and you just set the driver to Windows NOT Blackmagic.

For running Isadora on computers in an installation-type setting:

Isadora > Isadora Preferences > Warnings > Warnings > Disable all warnings

Isadora > Isadora Preferences > Warnings > Automatic Updates > Automatically Check for New Versions > Never

Isadora > Isadora Preferences > Auto Save > Autosave > Disable auto save

Isadora > View > Tip of the Day > uncheck “Show Tips”

System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > Start After: > Never

System Preferences > Mission Control > uncheck “Displays have separate Spaces” (then log out and back in)

System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Turn on Do Not Disturb > enable “From: [TIME] to: [TIME]” > set it to “From: 1:01 am to: 1:00 am” (to always keep it in do not disturb) 

System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Turn on Do Not Disturb > enable “When display is sleeping” + Enable “When mirroring to TVs and projectors”

System Preferences > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > When Do Not Disturb is turned on: > uncheck “Allow calls from everyone” + uncheck “Allow repeated calls”

System Preferences > Energy Saver > set “Computer sleep:” + “Display sleep:” to “Never”

System Preferences > Energy Saver > uncheck “Put hard disks to sleep when possible”

System Preferences > Energy Saver > enable “Start up automatically after a power failure”

System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Turn Wi-Fi Off (if you don't need it)

System Preferences > Network > Bluetooth > Turn Bluetooth Off (if you don't need it)

If you're running the computers without any keyboard or mouse attached (and want to prevent system dialogs looking for a keyboard and mouse via Bluetooth), go to System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced button > Uncheck "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant if no keyboard is detected" + Uncheck "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant if no mouse or trackpad is detected" > select OK.

The Taskbar being visible can be solved by going to System Preferences > General > enable “Automatically hide and show menu bar”

The Dock being visible can be solved by going to System Preferences > Dock > enable “Automatically hide and show Dock”

If you're controlling the computers by networking them together, it's much better to use Cat5/5e/6 (ethernet cable) to wire them all to an ethernet switch rather than relying on Wi-Fi.

If you don't want any other windows to open when you restart the computer, go: Apple > Log Out [USERNAME] > uncheck “Reopen windows when logging back in” > Log Out

If you want Isadora to launch a particular file when you turn on the computer:

System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items > “+” Button > in the dialog, go to Applications > Isadora 3 > and select Isadora to add Isadora (or the specific Isadora file you want to launch on login) as a login item.If you want to launch Isadora and have it launch the specific file itself, goIsadora Preferences > General > Startup Action > Open Most Recent File
Isadora Preferences > General > After Loading File > Activate First Scene + Show Stages after 10 Sec. This has the advantage that if you save a newer version of the file, Isadora will open the newer version automatically, instead of you needing to remove the old file as a Login Item and insert the new file as a new Login Item.System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items > Remove any other login items not necessary for the installationSystem Preferences > Users & Groups > Click the lock (bottom left) > enter password > Login Options (lower-left) > Choose an account from the “Automatic login” menu > enter password. Computer now automatically logs in to that account on restart.If you have multiple partitions or are launching from an external drive, make sure you restart from the correct partition by going to System Preferences > Startup Disk > Click the lock (bottom left) > enter password > Select the correct partition from which to boot.