Isadora 2.0 - Responses and Reactions from the Community

mark

To answer your questions:

**Will 2.0 be more efficient with keying in term of frame rate?**

Absolutely. I am easily playing 4 x 1920x1080 H264 clips at the same time on my i7 laptop with a standard 5400 RPM drive. 30fps, totally solid.

**Will there be a demo version soon or later to try this feature?**

Yes, I hope to have it in the next few days.

**Is there some kind of CI chroma key on board?**

Apple has an example of doing chroma key with CI. I've wanted to get this into Isadora, but there just hasn't been time. I'll see what I can do. But also, since Isadora will now support FreeFrameGL, there may be existing FFGL plugins that do chroma key on the GPU. Please take a moment and do a search... maybe you can inform us all about what you find. ;-)

Best Wishes,

Mark

laurentR

Thanks mark for all these good news. It seems I should find enough argument to update ;-)
About Chroma Key, I guess it is not the right post to talk further more but I will keep community inform of my search... On this post for example ;-)

jorisw

Hello Mark and Isadora team and lovers,
just filled in the form and look forward to start testing! I already asked in the mail form itself but to be sure I'll post my question here too:

I work at the Utrecht School of the Arts HKU (Netherlands) and know we purchased 10 licenses for our education and research. These licenses I wish to upgrade all eventually. Because we use these licenses also in an educational setting I might want to upgrade now only half of the licenses to 2.0 for testing in our lab and leave the rest in its stable version for training purposes until you formally release 2.0. Is this possible? Or can we still use the old version parallel to 2.0?

With regards to the change of culture of the company and the need to ask for money I have to say that I'm actually glad you do because it seems the only way to ensure continued and regular updates and stability. This is essential to compete in a software marked where stability in live performances is essential. So thank you for the consideration for al those in the arts who have to work with small or no budgets, but I still think the proposed fees are very reasonable!

Also we have at the Media & Performance Laboratory (MAPLAB) started to develop some plugins in the SDK. We certainly hope that we can share our results soon but would love some more documentation and proper update to Izzy 2.0 ;-)

Again thanks for all the hard work and look forward to the pre-release. I just love Projection mapping and connecting live performance with media.

Regards,
Joris.

mark

Dear @jorisw,

Thank you for these thoughts. They are very welcome. We need to take the next step, and I'm doing my very best to take it. I hope that what we have to offer will only further enhance everyone's creative efforts.

In terms of running the old version and the new side by side, it's possible depending on your licensing scheme. If you use the standard online licenses or USB Key licenses, no problem. If you're running a Sassafras keyserver, then I'm not sure if it is possible.

Best Wishes,

Mark

arcticsunrise

Filled out the form.

Although its not my daily software of choice as I'm a programer myself and don't need video i do use it for education and some theatre / dance work. Im interested to see the mapping because a previous theatre project did not have the cash in the budget to buy isadora so we used my mac for the show using my mad mapper . Possibly i can convince the company this is what they need ;-)

Ill upgrade because £60 is cheap in the grand scheme of things and it doesn't matter if you use it a lot.

I know of companies in the UK that have the same perception of stability - some i have worked with using Isadora for 18 months on major projects and others that use QLAB instead.

Adding in javascript is a good call - I'm really interested to see the new SDK/API .

For me, if i want to use video playback/video effects on the gnu its easier to use Isadora than code using processing and shaders, however once you start to want to blend the two - performance on the machine is critical and this is where i personally have been let down even using top grade mac pro at the time sat on rock solid Snow Leopard. Mavericks has messed a lot with usb webcams especially macam drivers and ps2 cam in Isadora (and other software too so tis not just isolated) so understand the problems with architecture and frameworks changing and the constant battle to ensure what worked yesterday still works today - let alone add new or improve on existing features.

Look forward to trying it out.

arcticsunrise

ps. What Graham did at Glasto looked mega.

timeg

Just wanted to add my congratulations and deep thanks for everything Mark and the team are doing and how they are doing it. 1k thanx!

Armando

CONGRATULATIONS MARK AND THE WHOLE TEAM!!!!!!!!

I LOVE THE NEW SEXY ISADORA'S DRESS AND THE NEW FEATURES!!!!! I'LL UPGRADE FOR SURE IN ALL THE PLACES WHERE I TEACH AND GIVE WORKSHOPS. AND ISADORA WILL BE THE CENTRAL PIECE OF SOFTWARE IN THE DANCE AND NEW MEDIA LAB I'M SETTING UP IN MY NEW JOB AS AN ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITÉ DU QUEBEC A MONTREAL (CANADA).

ISADORA 2.0 YEAH!

laurentR

Joke or error? Am I the first or the only one?
Tonight, impatient about this so expected new jewel, I take a look to the forum, then to the Pre-realeases page of the website and what do I see? The 2.0.0b1 available!!!!
I download it, nervously install it in a fresh folder, run it and... A splash screen telling me " Welcom to Isadora 1.5" !
No, no... Probably a mistake... I click and discover a very familiar soft looking just like the 1.5.3f28... No new feature, no fancy dress...
Before starting to cry I check the "about" menu wich is telling me 2.0.0b1 !!!
???!!!???
And the save function is not disable while I did not upgrade... I am for sure in front of a 1.5 pretending to be a 2...

Reinhard

same to me.
after weeks and weeks of waiting can't stand no joke.

Michel

Dear @laurentR and @Reinhard

Did you buy the upgrade to 2.0?
If not please follow these steps:
http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/1458/isadora-2-0-availability-starting-monday#Item_1

Best
Michel

mark

Dear All,

The pre-release version of 2.0.0b1 does not include the 2.0 features until you purchase the upgrade.

In addition, I do not yet have a demo version of 2.0 that allows to you try the new features. That's coming in a few days.

Users with an existing license can download and use this version, and all the features they currently have (e.g., Core Video upgrade) will be there. But the new stuff won't appear until you purchase the upgrade.

I'm sorry if this transition phase is a little confusing. We wanted to increment the version number to 2.0 because we're letting those who have joined the early adopter program purchase licenses now. We want the copy they have to say 2.0.

I'll have added a note to the pre-releases page about this to clarify make things clearer.

Best Wishes,

Mark

crystalhorizon

Purchased!

bruper

Can't open...quits immediately after launching Application Specific Information: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[TaskWrapper stopProcess]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x24ea600'

fifou

I Just purchased, read all the documentations... Waiting for my serial...
Can't wait !

Thanks Mark (and TroikaTeam) for all these very promising new functionalities.

Best
Philippe

bruper

I purchased as well but I still have not being able to see it... renamed old version app and folder, reinstalled, same result, crashes immediately :-(

eight

@Mark: Question about 2.0 upgrade non-USB licensing: is this going to be the good old 3 licenses per year deal?

Thanks.

--8

Luka

no problems with upgrading.

congratulation to Mark and crew,

Luka

mark

@bruper,

Do you by any chance have "v002 Screen Capture" installed? It seems to have a problem with 2.0\. Another user was getting the same crash, uninstalled "v002 Screen Capture", and then everything was fine.

Please check for this.

Otherwise, file a bug report and **compress (please!)** a crash report and send it to us as a bug report.

Best Wishes,

Mark

mark

Dear All,

Just a small update. I was hoping to process the remaining early adopters tonight, but I am stuck at a hotel in Copenhagen with an internet connection that is only barely useable. I will be back home in Berlin tomorrow, and will be processing these orders starting at 10am or so. Those of you who are waiting can expect to see your upgrade notices then.

Also, for those of you who got 2.0.0b1 -- there will be an new build tomorrow fixing some things that the first batch of early adopters found. It will be 2.0.0b2.

Thanks for the patience

Good Night,

Your intrepid leader,

Mark