Isadora 3 Release Notes

Woland

Hello all,

The Release Notes for Isadora 3 are now live: https://support.troikatronix.com/support/solutions/articles/13000064496-isadora-3-release-notes

We apologize for the delay (Mark added a LOT of cool new things so there was a lot to cover! )

Best wishes,

The TroikaTronix Team

Release Notes Update:

Added more information to the System Requirements section.
Included an important link to an article for Windows users on laptops.
Added a new section with information about when we will launch the TroikaTronix Digital Sponsorship Program.

Updated List of Release Note Topics:

The new pricing structure
How to apply for the 50% academic discount
The Isadora 3 System Requirements
Important information for Windows users on laptops
The new Isadora 3 Manual
The TroikaTronix Digital Sponsorship Program
The new TroikaTronix Plugin Page (User Actors/Macros, FFGL, GLSL, Themes, Patches, and more!)
The new licensing system (with an online portal for easy license management!)
The new licensing options (affordable rentals and subscriptions!)
The new Stage Setup (use up to 16 displays, assign multiple displays per Stage, automatic edge-blending, and split displays in half, thirds, or quarters!)
How to output content from any display or Stage via Syphon/Spout, Blackmagic device, or NDI!
NDI OUTPUT!!!
The new Blend Maker (quickly set up a blend using up to eight displays, with up to two Matrox or Datapath splitters, in any of 18 display configurations!)
Numeric point editing in IzzyMap
The threaded media engine and playback improvements
The list of recommended video file formats for Mac and Windows 10
The update of the entire codebase to 64-bit!
BLIND MODE EDITING OF SCENES!!!
New linking features to speed up your creation process!
Major Movie Player actor overhaul (including MIDI TIMECODE SUPPORT, clicking to jump to a position, manual playhead adjustment, and play, pause, stop, and mute buttons for rehearsal!)
MIDI TIMECODE SUPPORT!
Updated versions of the FFGL and Artnet plugins (and how to install plugins like the TroikaTronix GLSL Shaders)
Moving User Actors/Macros to Isadora 3
TWO NEW ISADORA PLUGINS! (Get Stage Image and Value Changed)
JAVASCRIPT ACTOR - CREATING CUSTOM NAMES FOR INPUTS/OUTPUTS
Updates to the Live Drawing, Measure Color, and Shuffle actors
Actors that have been renamed
Legacy actors that have been removed
Updating files to Isadora 3
Updates to the main user interface
NEW THEME EDITOR!!!
Changes to Isadora Preferences (most notably, most of the settings for Stages moved to Output > Stage Setup)
Updates to the Scene Select (Click-to-jump now enabled by default!) and Bin Picker Control (now bigger by default and supports 3D models!)
Keyboard shortcut updates
Updates to the menus (items added, renamed, and removed)
The “Coming Soon” list (NDI input support, Body-Tracking plugins, 64-bit Rutt-Etra Plugin, native BlackTrax support, PJ Link plugin, H265.mkv support for Windows, example patches for GLSL Shaders, new video tutorials, and reworked advanced audio output/sound routing)

CitizenJoe

Holy crap, Lucas, that's a huge job! I learned lots!!

Cheers,

Hugh

Woland

@citizenjoe

I was just documenting it, Mark is the one who actually made all of those changes and improvements.

jfg

super

Thanks a lot

RIL

@woland Thanks a lot ! Huge work from all the Team. And several new things to lern !!

Best,

Woland

Release Notes Update:

Added more information to the System Requirements section.
Included an important link to an article for Windows users on laptops.
Added a new section with information about when we will launch the TroikaTronix Digital Sponsorship Program.

Woland

Bumping this because I added to the post.

Updated List of Release Note Topics:

The new pricing structure
How to apply for the 50% academic discount
The Isadora 3 System Requirements
Important information for Windows users on laptops
The new Isadora 3 Manual
The TroikaTronix Digital Sponsorship Program
The new TroikaTronix Plugin Page (User Actors/Macros, FFGL, GLSL, Themes, Patches, and more!)
The new licensing system (with an online portal for easy license management!)
The new licensing options (affordable rentals and subscriptions!)
The new Stage Setup (use up to 16 displays, assign multiple displays per Stage, automatic edge-blending, and split displays in half, thirds, or quarters!)
How to output content from any display or Stage via Syphon/Spout, Blackmagic device, or NDI!
NDI OUTPUT!!!
The new Blend Maker (quickly set up a blend using up to eight displays, with up to two Matrox or Datapath splitters, in any of 18 display configurations!)
Numeric point editing in IzzyMap
The threaded media engine and playback improvements
The list of recommended video file formats for Mac and Windows 10
The update of the entire codebase to 64-bit!
BLIND MODE EDITING OF SCENES!!!
New linking features to speed up your creation process!
Major Movie Player actor overhaul (including MIDI TIMECODE SUPPORT, clicking to jump to a position, manual playhead adjustment, and play, pause, stop, and mute buttons for rehearsal!)
MIDI TIMECODE SUPPORT!
Updated versions of the FFGL and Artnet plugins (and how to install plugins like the TroikaTronix GLSL Shaders)
Moving User Actors/Macros to Isadora 3
TWO NEW ISADORA PLUGINS! (Get Stage Image and Value Changed)
JAVASCRIPT ACTOR - CREATING CUSTOM NAMES FOR INPUTS/OUTPUTS
Updates to the Live Drawing, Measure Color, and Shuffle actors
Actors that have been renamed
Legacy actors that have been removed
Updating files to Isadora 3
Updates to the main user interface
NEW THEME EDITOR!!!
Changes to Isadora Preferences (most notably, most of the settings for Stages moved to Output > Stage Setup)
Updates to the Scene Select (Click-to-jump now enabled by default!) and Bin Picker Control (now bigger by default and supports 3D models!)
Keyboard shortcut updates
Updates to the menus (items added, renamed, and removed)
The “Coming Soon” list (NDI input support, Body-Tracking plugins, 64-bit Rutt-Etra Plugin, native BlackTrax support, PJ Link plugin, H265.mkv support for Windows, example patches for GLSL Shaders, new video tutorials, and reworked advanced audio output/sound routing)

bonemap

@woland

I have read and looked over the release notes a few tones now. Congratulations on getting the notes together so thoroughly. I do notice a gap though, and that is changes to recording video to file. I for one would really appreciate an explanation of the changes and options currently available in v3 concerning recording video files of active stages.

Best Wishes

Russell