@as1ama1and looping the video through a set of 3 shader actors does quite a good job. 

Freeze shader: grabs a frame at the start of each cycle and holds it. It does this through a feedback loop (output → pass-through shader → back into video in 2), because Isadora's GLSL actor has no persistent buffer.
Pass shader: an empty shader that just closes the loop.
Mix shader: lays the frozen frame over the live image and fades it out over time. blend mode decides whether the clone shows only where it's darker or lighter than the live image, so the live video is never covered.
A Wave Generator (sawtooth, 0–100) drives the clock input. One cycle equals one snapshot, so freq sets the cycle time.

Here's the patch: echo trails

Best Michel

@woland

When I first set it up. Stage 1 worked as expected then stage 2 got a signal but was blank. Stage 4 came through correctly, stage 5 suddenly was on stage 2 but projector 5 was blank and so on. Completely mixed up. I shuffled the stages around to get the order I wanted. On restarting it was thankfully the way I saved it. So that seems stable. 

I have an rtx 4090 and an rtx 3070 (externally mounted) and would like to use these cards also. My new challenge is that the display numbers for the decklink are the same as the display numbers for the 4090 displays and the 3070 displays. How can I get around this? 

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my dilemma,

Ray  

@bonemap

Great answer! 

All the best,

 Yar

@jfg

I really should apologise for resorting to AI to make the post!

Best Wishes, 

Robot Russell

@dillthekraut said:

Gate Actor is set to initialize as off

 Just something useful to add here.. using a User Actor On/Off actor allows you to cause a initialization, so it becomes easier to understand INIT settings and more.

@juriaan

Picked up an old decklink quad and it reallocates the stages randomly, quite confusing. Is the normal behavior?

@dillthekraut

Can you send us the file via ticket? I'd be interested to check this out.

@dusx Thanks dusx

@renegadeboy said:

Timecore by Visual Productions

 It appears the unit has an API, supporting OSC as the easiest option.
see: https://api.visualproductions....

You should be able to connect it to your router via ethernet, and simply send OSC commands to it using the 'OSC Transmit' actor.
TimeCore's TCP and UDP listening ports are configurable and default to port 7000.

@theuhleese

Please open a support request using the link in my signature. We are likely going to need to look more deeply at the specific VSTs you have.

@3perf
The ISO / ANSI standardizations are probably as well the reason, why you aren't getting the same numbers the manufactures propagate. As you are not using the distinctive measurement standards as they are defined. In the end, these numbers are only meant to have the possibility of a basic comparison between different devices, not exactly a quality aspect. It is kind like the PS/kw for cars.

Since the switch from conventional lights to laser and LED sources, some manufactures tend to push the power of their devices above the advertised Lumens, to compensate the loss of brightness (aging) over the much longer live expectancy (20 000 hours fixed light source vs. 2000 hours changeable conventional bulbs).

@mark_m

Second this. I generally prefer properly wired connections, as wireless can never be as reliable. But there are scenarios.
We do that a lot at our theater in both directions, from wireless camera connections to free movable displays as a sink. Just now for a production we got a freely movable multi display platform, which gets its feed from two our Teradek bolt 4K lt 750. But it needs quite some experience and knowledge to navigate the caveats.
E.g. an issue to be aware of, can be the 5Ghz Wifi Networks in the same room. Especially if you go to have wireless (NDI) streams from a mobile device in the same frequency bands. As the Teradek doesn't recognize existing wifi networks, they just overpower them if on the same channel. This needs proper channel management, especially in Europe where most of the 5Ghz channels are DFS (radar saved) channels, leaving only two fixed channels for two wireless sets.
Therefore, if it doesn't need to be second hand for budged reasons, I very much recommend the 6Ghz versions.
For indoor usage, I can recommend the Mushroom Antennas as an upgrade. They are available for both Ghz variants and added connection stability for us big time. We don't have any experience with the internal antenna variant though.

Hi, it's been a minute since I have used IZZY, but I was curious about the DMX workflows. Now that we're in Izzy 4 (last time I used Izzy it was somewhere still in a 3 variant), what are the current best practices for sending and receiving DMX? I am mostly concerned about Art-Net and sACN because I never use ENTEC or USB DMX on my shows. I am interested in receiving cueing and show control data from an sACN source and doing projector dimming via Art-Net. Do you separate these out into indiviual VLANs on the machine? Do I have to do DMX over a single VLAN?

Hi friends,

Brand-new user here, please be gentle! :') 

I'm in the process of following the protocol to rescan all my VST3 plugins in Isadora USB Key (I quit this process during install, so went back and deleted the Preferences file, and it did re-start the scanning/validation process—KUDOS to the forum for helping with this!).

All of my plugins work fine in Ableton, but it looks like many of them have a Validation Warning in Izzy. Soundtoys and Native Instruments have a green check mark for Validation Passed, but UAD, Antares, and Aberrant DSP all have a "Validation Warning." 

Can anyone offer guidance as to why this might be happening & best practices on how to proceed? Should I just stick to the validated plugins and ignore the others?

In case it's relevant, I'm on an M5 Macbook Pro and many of the VST3s that come with a warning are connected to UA Connect / iLok. I don't have access to regular Isadora, only the USB Key version.

THANK YOU!

@wjmackwood

Hi,

I have tested SurgeXT extensively in Isadora. however, I used OSC communication to programmatically control presets and other parameters. Of all the VST’s I looked at during the testing phase Surge XT stood out because of the functionality of accessing preset effects lists through accessible communication protocols inside Isadora.

Best wishes

Russell

@woland  De acuerdo! Muchas gracias!

@dusx Thanks for clearing this out. It would be nice though to have a fourth "Reset" button in the screen above.

@dusx 

Holaa, gracias por recomendarme to corrector de color, quizás lo pruebo estos días aunque ya convertí en Davinci a rec.709

😊

@jfg

I have two small suggestions for you.

First is @DusX updated  python tools, in the add-ons here. Like you I couldn't understand the first video, but this did help me get started.

And the other thing which has really helped me with Python is using AI. Specifically Claude Sonnet. I like that model particularly because it is good at explaining, which helps me to learn the process. 

When I'm starting a chat I:

ask it to add detailed comments to every line of code explaining what it does in plain English (am sure it's equally capable in other languages!).ask it for a "Step-by-step environment setup guide," including how to install the necessary libraries for my OS.

I just did this for Windows, and Claude Sonnet gave me verbose instructions. Including how and where to install all the necessary libraries, etc. I don't have time to try that all out right now, but will certainly give it a go later.

Meanwhile maybe this is useful...

best regards

Mark (not that Mark, in rainy London)