movie player pan not working

Notdoc

i would like to be able to pan movie file output audio within Isadora, but whatever i do the 'pan' is greyed out.

my movie files have 2-channel stereo audio, which i am able to distinguish clearly in external output.

tried with multiple output sources, if i play around too long Isadora crashes

no project to show, just trying with a movie player in a freshly opened project

ventura 13.7.2 on M1 Max '21

skuven

@notdoc why are you specifically wanting to use the video player for audio? Maybe convert the video to a .wav file and use the audio player instead - there may be more useful features on that?

You could then still sync the playstart of both the sound and video player actors?

Let me know how you get on!

Notdoc

@skuven

thanks for quick response, but i don't want to do that, as i am working with multiple video files often at quite short notice, so additional processing is not desirable for the workflow.

the sound actor pan works fine for me, but I really want to pan movie file audio within Isadora

jfg

@notdoc

Here is a workaround, as this function no longer works in Movie Player since Quicktime X. You must have Blackhole (or similar) installed, and if your Movie Player does not show "Audio Device", click on the eye to the left of Actor name and activate this input.

Then select "Blackhole" as shown in the picture and you can adjust Pan and Volume in the AUMixer.

Best regards,

Jean-François