Isadora Manual v1.3 - TroikaTronix

Tutorial 1: Playing a Movie
Creating a New File
To create a new Isadora file, choose File > New. A new Isadora document that
looks like this will appear:
There are four main areas to the Isadora document: The Toolbox and Toolbox
Filter, found along the left; the Scenes List along the bottom; the Snapshots area
across the top-right, and the Scene Editor, which takes up the rest of the window. A
new Isadora document will have one untitled Scene already inserted into the Scenes
list at the bottom of the window. Note the green bar below that first Scene – this
indicates that the Scene has a Control Panel. (We will discuss control panels in a
later tutorial.)
Scenes are where you create the “program” that defines how the media will be
manipulated and controlled when that scene is active. You may have numerous
Scenes inside of one Isadora document, though, generally speaking, only one Scene
is active at a time. (There is more about multiple scene activation in the Advanced
Topics section of the manual.)
Creating Scenes
To insert a new scene into the Scene List:
• Click to the right of the last scene in the Scene List. If a scene is active, it will
deactivate (go from blue to gray) and a blinking cursor will appear at the spot
where you clicked. This indicates where the new scene will be inserted.
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