Isadora Manual v1.3 - TroikaTronix

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Performance Monitor................................................................................345 Picture Player............................................................................................345 Picture Preload..........................................................................................346 Pitch Bend Watcher..................................................................................347 Pitch Roll Yaw to Rotation (v1.3).............................................................348 Point Tracker (v1.1)...................................................................................349 Poly Pressure Watcher.............................................................................349 Preload Scene (v1.3).................................................................................350 Program Change Watcher........................................................................351 Program Change Watcher........................................................................353 Projector (v1.3)..........................................................................................354 Pulse Generator ........................................................................................356 Random......................................................................................................357 Real Time Watcher (v1.1) .........................................................................357 Recall Snapshot ........................................................................................358 Resizable Bkg............................................................................................358 RGB to YUV (v1.1).....................................................................................359 Router ........................................................................................................359 Scale Value................................................................................................360 Scaler (v1.1)...............................................................................................361 Scanner......................................................................................................361 Scene Intensity (v1.3)...............................................................................362 Selector......................................................................................................363 Send Bank Select......................................................................................364 Isadora Manual 12
Send Control .............................................................................................364 Send HiRes Control ..................................................................................365 Send MIDI Show Control ..........................................................................366 Send Mono Pressure ................................................................................368 Send NonReg Param ................................................................................368 Send Note ..................................................................................................369 Send Pitch Bend .......................................................................................370 Send Poly Pressure ..................................................................................371 Send Program Change .............................................................................371 Send Raw MIDI ..........................................................................................372 Send Raw Serial Data (v1.3).....................................................................373 Send Serial Data (v1.1) .............................................................................373 Send Sys Ex ..............................................................................................374 Serial In Watcher Binary ..........................................................................375 Serial In Watcher Text ..............................................................................376 Sequential Trigger ....................................................................................377 Shapes (v1.3).............................................................................................378 Shimmer.....................................................................................................379 Show-Hide Stages ....................................................................................380 Simultaneity...............................................................................................380 Slit Scan.....................................................................................................381 Smoother (v1.1).........................................................................................381 Sound Frequency Watcher ......................................................................382 Sound Level Watcher ...............................................................................384 Isadora Manual 13
Page 1 and 2: ISADORA ® Isadora Manual User’s
Page 3 and 4: Initializing Property Values.......
Page 5 and 6: Compositing with the Projector (v1.
Page 7 and 8: 3D Stage Orientation (v1.1)........
Page 9 and 10: Envelope Generator ................
Page 11: Min Value Hold ....................
Page 15 and 16: Threshold (v1.1) ..................
Page 17 and 18: Isadora - Overview What is Isadora?
Page 19 and 20: have a complicated video patch and
Page 21 and 22: Follow these steps to register your
Page 23 and 24: Click “OK” to continue. • Cho
Page 25 and 26: Fire Wire output, or a analog video
Page 27 and 28: • Under the heading Stage 2, Stag
Page 29 and 30: • Choose Scenes > Insert Scene. A
Page 31 and 32: • Click on the module named “Mo
Page 33 and 34: Tutorial 2: Changing Actor Settings
Page 35 and 36: Isadora Manual movie back and forth
Page 37 and 38: Isadora Manual properties. Move the
Page 39 and 40: capture device is securely attached
Page 41 and 42: • Difference - Compares the brigh
Page 43 and 44: hear a short loop of the sound. In
Page 45 and 46: Player actors - both are set to 1.
Page 47 and 48: • Click to the right of the only
Page 49 and 50: You can easily find out the type of
Page 51 and 52: to a specific value when its Scene
Page 53 and 54: Now you see a silhouette of the dan
Page 55 and 56: ecause it does not yet have any inp
Page 57 and 58: In this case, we don’t need to ch
Page 59 and 60: Creating a New Instance Sometimes y
Page 61 and 62: • Choose Windows > Show Media to
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Experiment with these three setting
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The standard drives included with m
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DV NTSC or DV PAL For standard DV r
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6) Set the slider under “Quality
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TIFF (.tif) Graphics Interchange Fo
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To select an multiple bins • Clic
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To force standard-quality playback
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• Choose Scenes > Insert Scene. A
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outside world is changing the way i
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• Click on the main body of the a
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To segment Links for better visual
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To get help for an actor’s proper
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Ctl Link, Init, Scale Min. and Scal
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actors - if this is the case, you c
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• To adjust the color input of an
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When you close a User Actor editor
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To edit a User Actor: • To open a
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• Click on an input or an output
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Choosing a Folder to Hold Your Glob
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If you take more Snapshots after th
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Using Control Panels Overview Isado
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Isadora Manual Select Scene Four an
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To Edit Control Panels: • Choose
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• Ensure that Controls > Show Act
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IMPORTANT NOTE: If you choose the T
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Setting the font, font style and fo
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• Control-click (MacOS) or right-
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• Type the password for this file
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Isadora Preferences Isadora’s Pre
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Thumbnails You can choose whether o
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• Faster - Double Buffer: This is
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First, if the display associated wi
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MIDI/Net Preferences MIDI Scene Con
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Warnings To help new users avoid co
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the Preferences. If the patch is co
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Cue Sheets Isadora has an integrate
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Using the Cue Sheet Once the cue sh
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Video & Audio Output Compositing wi
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• Click on the dot to the left of
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about FreeFrame plug-ins, see page
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• Set the rendering speed by ente
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Recording Isadoraʼs Output To reco
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• TIP: If you can’t find all of
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• If your computer has multiple v
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To use this feature, you must have
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Using Multi-Channel Sound with Movi
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With this setup, sound files played
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6) You can then use the popup menu
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of the sound in three dimensions -
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Live Video & Audio Input To bring l
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• Enable/Disable the Force 4:3 As
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Controlling Video Capture Performan
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Forcing a 4:3 Aspect Ratio There is
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Deleting Captured Media If you have
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Associating a Physical Input Port t
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3) Choose Communications > Midi Set
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Adding Custom Open Sound Control (O
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1) Check or uncheck the Enable chec
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• In the list in the middle of th
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3) Click the Sort List button to or
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Preparing a Port for Serial Communi
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until the some delimiter character
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[ character_set ] [[ character_set
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Data Input Elements: byte_set A byt
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linteger Isadora Manual integer. An
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Isadora Manual “hello” 0D 0A wo
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Actors Reference 2D Velocity (v1.1)
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• x/y/z rotation: Specifies the r
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3D Mosaic (v1.3) Creates a 3D Mosai
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• v mag pos 1/2/3/4: The vertical
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Creates a 3D Particle System. The i
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• mid size: Defines the middle si
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3D Player Renders a 3D object onto
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• x/y/z scale: Scales the object
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• visible: When turned on, the vi
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3D Quad Distort (v1.1) Renders a vi
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• x3/y3, Offsets the bottom left
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• attack time: Fade in time of th
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• x/y/z translation: Translates t
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3D Velocity (v1.3) Calculates the v
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When a valid scene has been specifi
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Input Properties • video: the vid
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image. Where it is black, you will
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Capture Frame 1 Input Properties
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Output Properties • tracking: Out
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What the store pointer does when th
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Calc Angle 3D (v1.3) Given a pair o
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Calc MBT Converts a measure, beat a
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• function: determines the action
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Output Property • output: Outputs
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• horz ctr: In tandem with vert c
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To help you understand what these v
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Properties • hue: The hue of the
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Comparator Compares two numbers. In
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Input Properties • video in: The
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would be 112. Since this would exce
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• X2: the horizontal coordinate o
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• replace: Replaces the data valu
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gradually decay to 0. The amount of
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Displace Offsets the pixels of a vi
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Input Properties • video in: the
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DV Device Control NOTE: MacOS X onl
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Isadora Manual xor and or Input Pro
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When this property is set to all an
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Explode (v1.1) “Explodes” a vid
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If you connect the output of the Di
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Eyes++ (v1.3) Tracks the position,
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constituent parts. This may or may
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Flip Flips a video stream horizonta
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highest integer, while round rounds
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Get Media Count Returns the number
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HID Value Listener Receives values
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HSL Adjust Manipulates the hue, sat
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• color: "When off, the color of
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Example output, with no input conne
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Jump++ Activates a new Scene after
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Input Properties • key range: Spe
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LanBox RGB Out (v1.1) Allows you to
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For example, let’s say we have tw
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Limit Resolution Scales the incomin
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Listener Receives a value from a Br
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sent to the compare input, the inde
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will see the background. The sharpn
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• Arc Sine = asin(x) • Arc Cosi
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The min in chan and max in chan inp
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Matrix Value Send Broadcasts one or
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• scale fg: When turned off, prev
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• dst horz size: Sets the vertica
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Media Time to Percent (v1.2) Conver
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• velocity mod: When set to 100,
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Minimum Outputs the current minimum
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• decay amt: How fast the output
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The portion of the sound that will
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Movie Player Direct Plays a movie d
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• pan: Controls the panning of th
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MTC Compare Allows you to trigger e
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MultiVid Makes multiple copies of t
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Note Off Watcher Watches for MIDI N
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Number To Text (v1.3) Converts a nu
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• address: The OSC address to whi
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Output Properties • rgb out: The
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Performance Monitor Performance Mon
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• preload: When triggered, preloa
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Point Tracker (v1.1) Generates a ve
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Properties • trigger: When a trig
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Program Change Watcher Watches for
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• keep aspect: When turned on, th
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Random Generates random numbers. In
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• force 4:3: When this parameter
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Scaler (v1.1) Scales a video stream
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Selector Routes multiple inputs of
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Send HiRes Control Sends a MIDI Hig
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• cue list: The cue list for the
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norm: The parameter value ranges be
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Send Poly Pressure Sends a MIDI Pol
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• param 1, param 2, etc: variable
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You can insert up to nine variable
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• eom char: The character that si
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• rotation: When the shape input
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Slit Scan Scrolls one line or colum
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these parameters, the watcher will
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• right trig level: Whenever the
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total output range is 24 Khz (half
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method of playing long sounds is to
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• sound high: The last sound in a
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• volume: The volume of the voice
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Output Properties • video out: Th
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Stage Mouse Watcher (v1.3) Outputs
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String Formatter (v1.2) This actor
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TCP In Watcher - Binary Reads a fix
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TCP Send Data Formats and sends dat
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Text (v1.3) Outputs text of arbitra
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. descenders (like the letter “j
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Text/ure Superimposes text on a vid
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The Edge Performs “edge detection
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Timer Measures elapsed time. Input
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Input Properties • trig in: The i
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Update Snapshot Updates an existing
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Video Delay Delays a video stream.
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Video Inverter Inverts the color of
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Video Preload Preloads a video or r
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Input Properties • video in: The
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Zoomer Zooms in or out on source vi
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Controls Reference 2D Slider Displa
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Background Draws a solid background
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Bin Picker Picks media files groupe
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• Show Name: If this checkbox is
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• Show Value of Linked Properties
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• Horiz. Alignment: The horizonta
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• Color: Sets color of the dial.
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Monitor Provides monitoring of vide
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• Minimum Value: The minimum poss
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Settings Dialog Control Properties
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Stage Preview Displays a thumbnail
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Video Picker Allows the user to pic
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• Bold/Italic/Underline: When che
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