[ANSWERED] Lining up stages

[Tr742]

dear All

Have been using V2 software for some years 

we produce musicals and project to 3 differant areas on stage 

Old software let me line up with a cross grid system which mirrored the stage. 
I could also fine tune my key stoning by adjusting number on the set up stage area page 

V3 has none of this can anybody help/advise me how to set up projected stages keystoning 

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[Woland]

@tr742

The exact same thing doesn't exist in Isadora 3, but there is Output > Show Alignment Grid and for numerical adjustments, there's the Global Keystone actor.

[Tr742]

@woland

Thanks for help. 

Global keystone actor where would you put it ?

Ta

Arthur

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[Woland]

@tr742

If you want to be able to make adjustments live or something you can put it in a background Scene so that you can adjust it with a Control Panel, but otherwise you can just put it in your first Scene and the settings you put there work for every Scene in the file because you're keystoning the actual Stage, not just the output of the Projector actor(s) in that Scene: https://recordit.co/ytMO480GBf

You can also do non-numerical, but still global, keystoning and flipping for a Stage through Stage Setup: https://recordit.co/9TOSQ0lkt4

1. In Isadora's top menu bar, go to Output > Stage Setup
2. Select your Stage from the Stage List on the left (or if you've only got one Stage, it'll be selected by default and you can skip this step)
3. Double left-click on the preview of the Stage in the Stage Settings window
4. This will take you to the Display Settings where you can do a global keystone for that display and also flip the content on that output in different directions if you want. (Note: It won't show you the flipping inside the software because we assume that you'd want to see your content preview not upside-down, mirrored, etc; you'll only see the results of flipping on the output of the actual display itself.)

[Armando]

@woland Once again, Woland you amaze me with little things I didn't know about Isadora..... thanks for being here !

[Woland]

@tr742 said:

projected stages keystoning

It's also worth noting that you can also make a background Scene where you send all your video and then route it to the right Projector actor. Using this global projection mapping method, you only ever need to have one Projector (in the entire file) per Stage if your keystoning/mapping is the same for every Scene. It has the added benefit that if you ever have the need for different keystoning for the same Stage within the same file in different Scenes, you can use this same method, but use the actor chain Enter Scene Trigger > Trigger Value (2) > Broadcaster in the Scene that needs the "specialty" mapping/keystoning to affect a Router actor in the background mapping Scene to change the video's route so that instead of going to the "normal" mapped Projector actor (1 on the Router actor) the video goes to the "specialty" mapped Projector actor (2 on the Router actor), then have another Enter Scene Trigger > Trigger Value (1) > Broadcaster in the next Scene to switch the Router back.