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		September 21, 2007 Isadora v1.2.9 (MacOSX) and 0.9b6 (Windows) READ ME!!! QUICKTIME 7.2 BUG WORKAROUND Apple introduced a bug in QuickTime 7.2 that prevents sound from playing properly in Isadora. This version addresses this problem with a workaround that disabled non-essential features but allows sound to play. This workaround can be disabled in the preferences. For more information, read here. READ ME!!! VERY IMPORTANT INSTALLTION NOTE FOR MAC OS X! In Isadora 1.2.8 we corrected a bug where the Isadora Installer required administrator access during installation. Due to this fix, you may not be able to update your existing application using this installer. To ensure installation functions properly, please rename the Isadora folder in Applications to something else, e.g., "IsadoraOld", before installing. THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE VERSION This is a pre-release version. It has been deemed stable, but there still may be the occaisional bug. We strongly recommend that you back up your files before saving them in the new version. Once you do, you will not be able to load the files in previous versions of Isadora. Download Locations: MacOS: Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora129-std.dmg USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora129-usb.dmg MacOS CoreVideo/CoreAudio Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadoracore129-std.dmg USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadoracore129-usb.dmg Windows (Includes Example Files): Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorawin09b6-std.zip USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorawin09b6-usb.zip MacOS Examples + 1.3 Preliminary Manual http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorasupport-mac.dmg Version 1.3 Preliminary Manual http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora13-prelim-manual.zip New Features Quartz Composer Plugins - Billboard Output: You can now access the resulting image if a Quartz Composer plugin only renders to the Billboard. If a QC Plugin has no video outlets, then Isadora automatically adds a video output that is the image seen on the Billboard. 3D Rect Project Outputs to 3D Renderer Actor: the 3D Rect Project actor now has a "to stage" input that allows you to render to the stage or to the 3D Renderer actor. The Sound Player actor now has a "stop" input which stops playback. Bug Fixes (MacOS X and Windows) User Actors: User Outputs in a User Actor no longer inappropriately transmit their values when the User Actor's Scene is activated. Media: If you renamed or moved a media file while Isaora was running it could cause an assertion error. Now, if the media file is renamed or moved, it will appear is unresolved in the media window. Editing: Dragging Scenes no longer leaves the wrong scene activated. Inserting a Control no longer jumps to the first scene associated with the current control panel. Checking the "init" box on the Trigger String actor no longer crashes the application. Control Panel: Isadora no longer crashes if the Control Panel was set to use a background picture from the Media Window, and the picture could not be loaded upon opening the file. Bug Fixes (MacOS X only) Media: Isadora will correctly find media located on an external volume when opening a file. July 3, 2007 Isadora v1.2.8 (MacOSX) and 0.9b51 (Windows) VERY IMPORTANT INSTALLTION NOTE FOR MAC OS X! This version of the installer corrects a previous bug where the Isadora Installer required administrator access during installation. Due to this fix, you may not be able to update your existing application using this installer. To ensure installation functions properly, please rename the Isadora folder in Applications to something else, e.g., "IsadoraOld", before installing. THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE VERSION This is a pre-release version. It has been deemed stable, but there still may be the occaisional bug. We strongly recommend that you back up your files before saving them in the new version. Once you do, you will not be able to load the files in previous versions of Isadora. Download Locations: MacOS: Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora128-std.dmg USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora128-usb.dmg MacOS CoreVideo/CoreAudio Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadoracore128-std.dmg USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadoracore128-usb.dmg Windows (Includes Example Files): Standard Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorawin09b51-std.zip USB Key Version: http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorawin09b51-usb.zip MacOS Examples + 1.3 Preliminary Manual http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadorasupport-mac.dmg Version 1.3 Preliminary Manual http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora13-prelim-manual.zip New Features Serail In Watcher : This new actor (which is available in two flavors, Text and Binary) allows you to read serial data received on one of Isadora's Serial (RS-232) Input/Output ports. Flexible pattern matching allows you pick out values from the data and output them in a variety of formats. To edit the pattern matching stringt, you double-click the actor. A new "Help" button at the bottom left of the dialog will open documentation for pattern matching format. The Text version of the actor relies on a special character to mark the end of a block of data; the binary version counts the number of bytes received to determine the beginning and/or ending of a block. Bug Fixes (MacOS X and Windows) Media: Isadora now stores the full path to the media files under Mac OS X. Previously, files stored on external volumes wound not always be found. Controls: READ ME! The data associated with the Edit Text control (including Control IDs) is now correctly stored on Intel Macintoshes. You may need check the Control IDs when loading files in Intel Macintoshes, as they may no longer be correct after this fix!!! Strange redraw problems when updating the text of an Edit Text control have been fixed. Editing: When pasting a single scene, the scene is now correctly activated after the paste After undoing or redoing a drag in the Media Window, the Scene active at the time of the drag is correctly re-activated. Actor inputs coming from a User Input are now always properly updated after editing a User Actor and choosing “Save & Update All”. Previously, if you made a change to a User Actor and chose “Save & Update All”, the values of all actors inside the User Actor were set to match the copy you just edited. This was correct, but then upon activating a scene, the User Input values were not being sent into the User Actor, causing incorrect behavior. Enabling the “init value” for a User Input of a User Actor now correctly sends the value to to the input when the actor’s scene is activated. Renaming a bin to an empty string in the Media Window no longer crashes Isadora. When undoing a change to the number of inputs for an actor (e.g., the Table actor) any values that were discarded due to the change are now restored. Actors: The Send Serial Actor now correctly transmits hex FF The Selector actor now correctly passes values past input 17. Deleteing all of the characters you've typed in the Actor Find text box no longer crashes Isadora. Bug Fixes (MacOS X only) Core Video & Audio: Several error conditions that could come up in certain Core Audio setups have been fixed. Core Video actors now render properly, even if they only have a video output. The AUVarispeed unit has two inputs: rate and pitch. They actually are just two versions of the same value; if the pitch was set to 0, it would override the rate setting, and thus the pitch would have no effect when the actor was activated. To solve this problem, when you change either the rate or pitch, the other parameter is automatically set to the equivalent value. This ensures that the speed change will take effect when the AUVarispeed audio unit is initialized. When initailzing an Audio Unit patch containing an AUSoundFilePlayer, Isadora no longer throws an assertion error if the Sound File Player does not have a valid sound file specified. Connecting AU Sound Input directly to SystemOutputUnit no longer throws an assertion error. Setting the intensity of the CI Projector to 0 no longer throws an assertion error. You can no longer connect a core audio output to a core video input. (Ooops!) June 10, 2007 Isadora v1.2.7 (MacOSX) and 0.9b50 (Windows) New Features Multiple Undo: Isadora now supports unlimited undo/redo operations. (Hooray!) This new feature also solves several relatively uncommon but nevertheless real crashes that would occur if, for instance, you were to undo an edit operation performed the Cue List or Media window from the main window, especially if the those windows were closed. User Actors: This version includes a major update to the way User Actors behave. You now have the option of synchronizing all instances (copies) of a User Actor after you make an edit. This functionality now works as I always intended, but also introduces a new way of thinking about User Actors. So, if you use User Actors, it would be very important to review the chapter on User Actors in the Isadora 1.3 Preliminary manual, which can be downloaded from http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora13-prelim-manual.zip Sleep Interval: The "Sleep Interval" parameter in the "General" tab of the Preferences has been replaced by a pop-up menu called "General Service Tasks". Instead of specifying the period of the sleep interval in milliseconds, you now choose a multiple of the frame rate to determine how often non-video tasks are performed. (There are technical reasons why it is better this way.) The new dialog reports the period in milliseconds based on the current frame rate and the General Service Task frequency, in case that is important to you. Global Variables: while no specific functionality for this was added this version, the new implementation of the User Actors offers this possibility. If you need global variables, just create a User Actor with one or more Enter Scene Value actors inside, each connected to a User Output. If you choose to synchronize after editing such an actor, all instances of the User Actor will be updated, thus ensuring that every scene with that actor will receive the same values. More Target Frame Rates: You may now also choose frame rates of 45, 60, and 75. Don't know if this is really useful, but if you're doing lots of OpenGL stuff, it can actually be good to go to these frames rates. If you're playing a lot of movies, however, I don't advise it. Chroma/Luma Key Alpha Input: The Chroma Key and Luminance Key actors now have a new 'alpha' input which causes the key to be applied to the alpha channel of the output image. This allows you to do compositing of the image using the embedded alpha channel. Slider Control Updates: You can now control the size of the "thumb" in the Slider control -- either to be a specified size, or to use the default method available previously. (For non-picture sliders, 10 pixels; for picture sliders, the size of the picture.) Control Actor Split: You can now drag the Control/Actor Split to adjust the width of the respective views. Reset to Default Values command in the Actors menu is now undoable. Command H for Hide: The keyboard equivalent for the Hide Values Command in the Actors menu has been changed to Command/Ctrl-Y to free up Command/Ctrl-H on Mac OS X. User Actor, User Input, User Output, and new "Macro" actor now always appear at the top of the toolbox in Group 8. The Toggle actor now has an 'init' input, that allows you to initialize the output value to a specified state. (You can also choose "none"). Bug Fixes (MacOS X and Windows) General: Isadora now disables Keyboard Watchers when a modal dialog is open (e.g., the Control Settings dialog). This was a problem if you had a Keyboard Watcher with the 'direction' input set to 'up', which was in turn attached to a Jump actor. Jumping to a new scene while a dialog was open could lead to a crash. It was possible to jump from a scene in a couple of situations where you were editing a dialog (e.g., editing control settings) and you could somehow programmatically jump from the scene, leading to a crash. This has been fixed for all of the situations I know about. In tandem with the new User Actor features, the long standing issue of conflicting IDs when adding User Actor files to your global User Actors folder has been solved. This has required, however, a new extension for the User Actor file (".iua" for Isadora User Actor) as previous versions of Isadora cannot read these files. The current version remains capable to read ".iza" User Actor files. Actors: The Send Serial Data, Send Raw MIDI, and String Formatter actors can now be shared between PowerPC and Intel processors. Previously the data in these actors would become corrupted upon moving between processors. (There was no issue when reading files on the same processor type.) The new version will read these actors will correctly on any processor, except in this specific case: when the data in the actor consists only of the values hex 00, 01, or 02. If there is any other data (i.e., ASCII text of any kind, or a parameter value [P1-P9]) then the data will be correctly interpreted. The order in which Isadora initializes actors within a User Actor (and any nested User Actors) has been improved to prevent crashes. Previously, it was possible that a nested actor could receive a trigger before all of its inputs were initialized, which could lead to crashes. (This bug was evidenced by the LanBox User Actors available at lanbox.com) Fixed a bug in the Luminance Key actor the 'softness' parameter was not being correctly applied. The OSC Port Number can now be set from 0-65535. Previously you could only set it to a range of 0 to 9999. Editing: When editing an input value via the slider, Isadora now correctly erases the contents of the slider's number box if you type a value after dragging in the number box. Snapshots: Isadora no longer crashes if you attempt to recall a snapshot that would cause a Jump actor to jump to another scene. 3D Actors Isadora no longer crashes when sending a video stream into a 3D Player that is playing a 3D Model that has one or more surfaces with no texture map assigned to it. The default global lighting, when no 3D Light Orientation actor is present, is now initialized to the correct default values. Controls: When editing a Control's Settings, you can now set the 'On Value' or 'Off Value' to a number with a decimal point. Bug Fixes (MacOS Only) Long file names are now correctly displayed in the main document window. Using Command-H on MacOS X to hide the application now works as expected. The Midi Player actor now plays correctly on Mac OS X. Core Video Bug Fixes (MacOS Only) Fixed several bugs having to do with QC (.qtz) files imported into Isadora as plugins. Core Audio (MacOS Only) Isadora no longer crashes when opening an audio unit is unsuccessful. (This could commonly happen for demo plugins that had timed out.) Isadora is now compatible with Cycling '74's "Pluggo" Audio Unit component. Isadora no longer crashes if an audio unit has more than 64 inputs. Bug Fixes (Windows Only) Fixed a bug where the Chroma Key and Luminance Key actors would draw the indicator in the middle of the actor incorrectly. Isadora would sometimes crash when importing a picture with an odd pixel width. You can now enter a negative number in for Minimum or Maximum value in the for Controls that have these inputs. Known Bugs The following features are not yet implemented under Windows. These features will be implemented before the release of v1.3. You cannot use the Capture Control actor to record the live video input stream to a movie, and then have that movie automatically import into the Media Window. You cannot set a Custom Capture Size/Cropping Rectangle for the live video input. You cannot change the Sound Output Routing for the Sound Player using the Sound Output Setup dialog. You cannot echo the Stage to an external Video Out Device using the start External Video Output command. March 26, 2007 Isadora v1.2 Manual - Preliminary A preliminary update of the Isadora Manual is available for download. Documentation for actors added in 1.2 and 1.1 have been added, and existing actor documentation updated. This is not the final version of the 1.2 manaul, but this update will serve as an important improvement to the existing 1.1 documentation. Download at http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora12-man.zip March 26, 2007 Isadora v1.2.5 SDK An updated version of the SDK has been made available that supports all of the features of 1.2.5. Download at http://www.troikatronix.com/files/isadora-sdk-xcode.sit The SDK for CodeWarrior will no longer be updated. An SDK for Windows .NET is coming soon. March 26, 2007 Isadora v1.2.5 (MacOSX) and 0.9b43 (Windows) New Features A keep aspect input has been added to the Projector, 3D Projector, 3D Quad Distort, and Movie Player Direct actors. When turning this option on, the output on the stage will automatically respect the aspect ratio of the source video image. You can still manipulate the image size using the height, width, and 'aspect mod' (formerly 'aspect') inputs. The 'aspect' input on the above mentioned actors has been renamed 'aspect mod' to help keep its meaning distinct from the 'keep aspect' input. The Movie Player Direct actor now allows you to position and resize the video image within the frame. (Previously, you no option but to fill the entire frame). If you right click (or control click on MacOS X) on a media object (movie, picture, etc.) in the media window, you can now choose Reveal in Finder (MacOS X) or “Show in Windows Explorer” (Windows) to display the source file in its enclosing folder. You can now increment numeric values by 1/100th instead of 1/10th if you hold down the shift key while dragging inside the numeric value. Isadora now searches into any folders located at the same level of the Isadora document for missing media files. If you organize your media files so that they are in folders that reside at the same level of the Isadora document, Isadora will now always automatically find the files on both Mac OS X and Windows. Note that this can cause very long opening times if you, for instance, place Isadora on your desktop and you have many folders on your desktop. This is because they will all be searched for the media. Isadora now imports PDF files into the Picture bin. Isadora now imports m4a audio files into the Movie bin. Added the Show/Hide Stages Actor Better auto-scrolling behavior throughout the program when dragging objects. The color picker dialog now updates the color ‘live’ so you can immediately see the results. The mouse wheel now works for scrolling in Windows version. Changed the ‘std’ sound output routing to ‘default’ to reflect the fact that this setting will respect any channel output routing already defined by the file. Under Windows, the special color cursors now match Macintosh version. Mac + Windows Bugs You can again type into the Comment actor (this was broken in v1.2.2). The perspective feature of the Projector now works correctly. (this was broken in v1.2.2) Isadora now correctly interprets OSC multi-value packets correctly on Intel machines (Mac or Windows.) The stage is now correctly drawn when activating a scene with a static image (e.g., a picture player connected to a projector actor.) Isadora now correctly determines the number of video inputs for a FreeFrame plugin. (It now uses the “maximum input frames” parameter to number the inputs, where it previously used the “minimum input frames” parameter.) The channel output routing for sound tracks in movies is not respected when the ‘snd out’ setting is set to std. Eyes++ no longer generates an error when attempting to track objects when the min size parameters were set to 0. Eyes++ no longer generates multiple errors when attempting to change the number of objects being tracked. The Sound Player no longer makes generates noise at the start of playback if the "endianness" of the sound file does not match the target platform (i.e., big endian sound file on a Windows/Intel computer.) Activate Scene Amount actor now correctly updates the sound volume for the activated scene. Movie Player Direct now correctly resizes itself when switching between Full Screen and Force Stage Preview mode. The USB key version no longer checks to see if too many copies with the same registration code are running on the network. Several improvements and bugs fixes when using the 3D Player to display and render 3DS files. Notably, the 3DS file's object colors and materials settings are now respected when they do not use an actual texture map. 3D Light Orientation now correctly effects 3D Models rendered using the 3D Player actor. The Stage Background actor now correctly updates all of its settings upon entering a scene. The 3D Stage Orientation actor now correctly activates all of its settings upon entering a scene. The 3D Projector, 3D Quad Distort, and 3D Rect Project actors no longer flash a black frame when the video input changes format or its source. (e.g., the video source is a Movie Player, and you change the 'movie' input to play a different movie.) Improved help (option/alt click) comments for the Video Preload, 3D Projector, 3D Quad Distort, and 3D Rect Project actors. Isadora no longer crashes when deleting all items in a Radio Button control. Isadora no longer crashes if you enable the “Don’t Activate any Scene” preference when and subsequently start up with the Control Panel enabled. Fixed auto-scrolling behavior in Scene Editor: it would not always scroll to the left or top edge. When importing or dragging media in the media window, or creating cues in the Cue List Editor, the current selection will always be scrolled into view. Mac Only Bugs File aliases for pictures are now resolved properly. Windows Only Bugs Isadora no longer crashes if you try to open more than two document windows. When the edit box for a Scene Name is open and you scroll, Isadora now deselects the text box and enters the text you have typed. Previously the text box would stay selected and would not scroll. The "OSC Port Number" setting of the Preferences now works for ports other than 1234. Isadora always receives on port 1234, but it will also listen on the port specified by this setting. Stage windows no longer have any borders, which could be seen when showing stages on multiple monitors. Tooltips for collapsed actor inputs and outputs now draw correctly. The Sound Player actor will now correctly turn off a sound when its Scene is deactivated. Hitting Ctrl+Space now correctly advances to the next cue in the cue list. Plus and Minus Icons in Cue List Editor now center properly within the button. Radio Buttons in Cue List Editor now hide properly when no cue is selected. Cleaned up the font drawing for the channel numbers in the OSC Listener and Listener actors. October 24th, 2006 Isadora v1.2 (MacOSX) and 0.9b38 (Windows) New Features Windows video and audio input is now native. You no longer need to install a third party QuickTime VDIG for Video Input to function. Added the 3D Particles actor, allowing you to create complex particles systems rendered in OpenGL. Download the file at http://www.troikatronix.com/files/particle-system.sitx for examples and the a manual page for this new actor. The oft requested FPS Display control has been added to the control panel. The equally oft requested Show-Hide Stages actor has been added to Toolbox Group 7. The Eyes actor now allows a resolution up to 120 pixels. It also defaults to 60x40 resolution. The Status Window now shows the current video input resolution. The Video In Preview window now shows the current video input resolution. High Resolution Video: If the video input resolution is greater than 480000 pixels (e.g., 800x600) a warning will be shown to let the user know that this may lead to low frame rates. Improved the way the video thumbnail would display its image, ensuring that it does not get too tall, and that the resolution information is always visible. Video Thumbnails now display using alpha channel information if it is present. 3D Quad Distort: Added the new ‘draw mode’ input to the 3D Quad Distort actor. When set to always, the “quad” will always been drawn, even if no video input is present. When set to ‘vid-in’, the quad will only be drawn if a valid video signal is present at the ‘video’ input. The “Show Value of Linked Properties” checkbox in the Control Settings dialog is now disabled for controls that have no linked control IDs. The Media Window now features "HQ" and "SQ" buttons to perform the "Set Force Standard Quality" and "Set Force High Quality" flags for movie playback. These are only enabled if only movies are selected. The "Select All" menu command now functions with the Media Window. Bug Fixes - MacOS + Windows When running on Intel Macs, a bug in the MMX video processing code used in routines would lead to various unexpected behaviors throughout the program. A fix has been applied to all MMX routines to prevent this. Dither & Dots Actors: Corrected a memory leak that would eventually fill all RAM. Seen in YUV mode for both actors, or when changing the resolution or depth in Dither. (Dots had no memory leak when not in YUV mode). Scenes: After cutting or deleting a primary scene in the midst of a cross fade, Isadora no longer crashes upon undoing that deletion. Input Slider: The slider now works correctly for a small value range, e.g., 0.0 to 1.0 Import Media: You can no longer crash Isadora by choosing File > Import Media twice. Eyes Actor: The Eyes actor now correctly refreshes its display when changing resolutions. Net Broadcaster/OSC: Universal Binary running on an Intel machine now correctly sends and receives Net Broadcaster and OSC Messages over the network Playing a sound only movie no longer crashes if the file contains text tracks. - Sound Player: The 'crossfade loop' feature of the Sound Player actor now works properly on Intel Macintoshes. Value inputs no longer get “stuck” in the highlighted state. Clicking on a value input, when another was already selected, causes the first value input immediately to be immediately deselected. Video thumbnail in the Scene Editor no longer reports a resolution of "0x0" when the video stream switches resolution. Video thumbnails are now displayed using the alpha channel information, if an alpha channel is encoded into the video stream. Sound Frequency Analysis and the Sound Frequency Watcher now work correctly after a new preferences file has been created. (Previously, you had to choose “Sound Input Settings” to before Sound Frequency Analysis would function after creating new preferences.) Text/ure & Text Draw Actors: If the font chosen in the Text/ure or Text Draw actor is not available, then nothing would be drawn. Now the font will default to Arial if the selected font cannot be found. The Font Popup Menu now correctly shows the currently selected font. Comment and Background controls how always draw properly, even if the “Show Value of Linked Properties” checkbox is checked for these. (It didn’t make any sense to select this option for Comment and Background controls, as they have no linked control IDs) The Media Window now properly shoes "Cut" as a possibility when selecting an entire bin (or multiple entire bins) in the Media Window. Bug Fixes - MacOS Only This new version solves the rendering problems found on the MacBook (White/Black model) and on the mac Mini with the GMA 950 graphics chip. There is now a USB Key capable version of the Universal Binary. Switching from internal iSight camera to external FireWire DV source no longer freezes the Mac Book Pro Changed the way the video thumbnail is being drawn to prevent freezes on the Mac Book Pro. Eyes Actor: The Eyes actor now correctly reports the 'obj ctr h' on Windows and/or Intel based Macs. It previously always showed 100. Isadora will now run properly from an account that does not have administrator access. The file name in the Error Dialog Box now only contains only the file name instead of the entire path. Bug Fixes - Windows Only The following actors now draw themselves correctly under Windows: Mini Sequencer Router Selector Sequential Trigger Table Value Selector The way in which Hardware Accelerated Rendering operates on Intel Macs has been improved, resulting in faster rendering of images to the stage. The SQ/HQ flags in the Media Window were obscured by the Scroll Bar under Windows. Fixed a long-standing windows bug where the Video Capture Preview window would not draw properly if it was fully or partially behind another window, and then brought to the front. April 16th, 2006 Isadora v1.1.4 (MacOSX) and 0.9b36 (Windows) Available. The latest versions of Isadora have been uploaded to the site. This includes an updated examples file featuring some of the new 3D actors., the new LanBox specific actors, and more. Important changes include Hardware Accelerated Rendering - Isadora now uses the power of your built-in graphics card to speed rendering to the screen, and allow different types of 3D effects. This new feature also means that there are far more flexible ways to composite images on the screen. Instant Compositing - Isadora's hardware accelerated rendering features allow you to resize and composite multiple video images quickly and easily. Especially useful when you are adapting a live performance to a new theater while on the road: no re-rendering of the image to DVD! Crossfading Between Scenes - You can easily crossfade between scenes using the new 'xfade' input to the Jump Actor. New 3D Rendering Actors – The 3D Projector, 3D Quad Distort, and other actors allow you to render images on to surfaces that can be rotated and distorted in 3D space using your built in graphics card. Control Panels - Version 1.1 features several new controls, including Dials, Radio Buttons, and more; and, you can use your own graphics customize the look of sliders, buttons and the background of the Control Panel Six Independent Outputs - Isadora now supports up to six "Stages" or output surfaces. With a fast desktop computer and multiple video cards, you can output as many as six independent images from the same patch. External Video Output - You can now mirror the output of Isadora to a FireWire camera connected to your computer. This allows you to record your visuals directly to tape, or to use a FireWire converter to drive a television monitor. Multi-Channel Sound Output Interfaces to a host of ASIO and CoreAudio ready audio devices like the MOTU 828. (MacOS X only) Open Sound Control Support - Open Sound Control (OSC) is an important communications protocol being used by numerous devices and applications like La Kroonde, Reaktor, Super Collider, Pd, MAX and others. Isadora's OSC implementation provides fast, high-resolution communication with all of these devices and applications. Serial Output - Send commands to external devices connected to the serial (RS-232) ports of your computer (or an external Serial Interface if there are no built-in ports.) This opens up an new world of hardware that you can control with Isadora, including video mixers with RS-232 inputs. LanBox Support - Isadora now suports actors that allow direct control of the LanBox DMX lighting controller. Read more here. Isadora SDK – Allows you to create your own Isadora plugins in C or C++. The Isadora SDK has been updated for the most recent version of Apple’s XCode. Go here to find out more about the program... April 12th, 2006 Isadora SDK A new version of the Isadora SDK is now available. This release is compatible with the new versions of Isadora released on April 12th, 2006, and the XCode projects have been updated to the XCode 2.2 format, allowing Unviersal Binary plugins to be build for Mac OS X. • Download Isadora SDK for Metrowerks Codewarrior • Download Isadora SDK for Apple Computer's XCode